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Video and Sound Production - Exercises

 Video and Sound Production - Exercises


29.8.2022 - 2.12.2022 (Week 1 - Week 14)

Er Xin Ru (Melanie) | 0354939 
Bachelor Of Design (Hons) In Creative Media | Taylor's University
Subject: VSP60104 - Video and Sound Production
LECTURES

Week 1 Module Briefing 29/8/2022 - Time base Project, Learning objectives

Pre-production: Preparation
  • Idea development
  • Story
  • Storyboard
  • Visual References
  • Location/ Props

Production: Principal Shooting
  • Lighting
  • Costume
  • Principal Shooting
Post Production: Editing
  • Offline Editing
  • Online Editing
  • Audio Editing

Week 2 In-class lecture "Framing & Storyboard" 5/9/2022

1. Earliest Cinema


Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1896)
Audiences’ reaction: the film undoubtedly astonished people unaccustomed to the illusion created by moving images.

L’Arroseur Arrosé or The Sprinkler Sprinkled is a silent comedy film from 1895, produced and directed by the Lumière brothers

Cinema technique is all about manipulating shots and sequence that isolating part of it to look at and in what order to see them.

2. Cinematography
  • Motion picture/Film/Video is made up of many shots. 
  • Each shot requires placing the camera in the best position for that particular moment in the narrative. 
  • Shot is continuous view shot by one camera without interruption.
  • Sequence is a series of scenes, or shots, complete in itself. 
  • Scene defines the place or setting where the action is laid. 
  • A scene may consist of series of shots or sequences depicting a continuous event.
3. Shot Size
The shot size determines how large the area that’s visible within the frame. 

  • Extreme wide shot - E.W.S
Shows a broad view of the surroundings around the character and conveys scale, distance, and geographical location. It's used to show where character is in his/her environment.
  • Wide shot - M.S
A medium shot shows the subject that are important to understanding - Gesture and expression, from the person waist up, letting hands and the lower half of his body fall outside the frame.
  • Medium wide shot - M.W.S
A medium wide shot shows a character usually cut off across the legs above or below the knees. It is wide enough to show the physical setting in which the action is taking place, it permit a nice balance of figure and surrounding.
  • Medium shot - W.S
A wide shot includes the entire subject and important objects in the immediate surroundings. If it's used at the beginning of a scene it's often called an "establishing shot”.
  • Medium close-up shot -M.C.U
Medium close up films subject character from approximately midway between waist and shoulders to above the head.
  • Close-up shot - C.U
A close-up is used to isolate the most important part of the subject. For a speaker, this is generally the head, or small object.It emphasizes facial expression, details of a object.
  • Extreme close-up shot - E.C.U
An extreme close-up single out a portion of the face magnifies a detail. The object is to focus on important detail either to increase the drama or impact on a situation or to allow the viewer to see necessary picture information more clearly.
  • Over the shoulder shot - O.S
The over-shoulder shot shows the subject from behind the shoulder of another person.

4. Camera Angle

Composition: Rule of thirds 

divides the frame into thirds both horizontally and vertically. The points where the vertical and horizontal lines cross are aesthetically pleasing spots to place subjects or to have perspective lines converge


Subject Angle: Composition
Camera Angle: Subject Height

5. Screen Direction

Dynamic Screen Direction: Constant screen travel depicts subject motion in one direction only . A series of shots of a person walking, a car driving, a plane flying – should move in the same direction to show progression.


Static Screen Direction: When planning shots with two characters, you need to understand the camera movement in relation to the 180º rule. The rule enforces the camera stay on a horizontal axis and not cross sections so that it will disorient the viewer. The horizontal axis is called “ Line of Action”

6. 180 Degree Rule, Screen Direction

f Camera 2 and Camera 3 are used, the audience stays on one side of the line of action. These shots are called "reverse angle shots".
INSTRUCTIONS


EXERCISES
1. Project 2 - Video Shooting Exercises (Week1 In class Editing Exercise) 29.8.2022
Fig 1 - Adobe Premiere Pro

We are required to edit the footage given in Adobe Premiere pro.

Fig 2 - Create new page in Adobe Premiere Pro

Below are the footage provided - Smint Advertisement 

Fig 3 - Footage given 1-12

Fig 4 - Footage given 12-19

After I exported the footage into Adobe Premiere Pro under the project entitled (as you can see from the fig)
Fig 5 - Import footage given 1-19

Fig 6 - Import footage given 1-19

After import the footage, I drag and drop videos to the timeline. I arrange the footage video given 1-19 accordingly

Fig 7 - Import footage to timeline and arrange

After arranging, I save it and select Export. The video was successfully import as an Mp4 File. Below is the completed video of Smint Advertisement after arrangement.

Fig 8 - Final arrangement of Smint Video

Youtube link fot Smint Video:



2. Week 1 Editing Exercise (Independent Learning)
We are required to edit the footage given in Adobe Premiere pro.

Fig 1 - Create new page in Adobe Premiere Pro

Fig 2 - Footage given 1-12


Fig 3 - Footage given 12-21

After I exported the footage into Adobe Premiere Pro under the project entitled (as you can see from the fig)

Fig 4 - Import footage given 1-21

Fig 5 - Import footage given 1-21

After import the footage, I drag and drop videos to the timeline. I arrange the footage video given 1-21 accordingly.

Fig 6 - Import footage to timeline and arrange

After arranging, I save it and select Export. The video was successfully import as an Mp4 File. Below is the completed video of Doritos Advertisement after arrangement.

Fig 7 - Final arrangement of Doritos Video

Youtube link fot Doritos Video:
https://youtu.be/dscdjCyX4_8


3. Week 1 Film study (Independent Learning)

Fig 1 - Munich 2005 ‧ Thriller/Drama ‧ 2h 44m

Story Structure
"Munich" is published in 200 a historical thriller set in the aftermath of the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics The film recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre -- and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. Eric Bana ("Troy") stars as the Mossad agent charged with leading the band of specialists brought together for this operation. Inspired by actual events, the narrative is based on a number of sources, including the recollections of some who participated in the events themselves.

Sound Design
Without a singing voice, the audience will not know where on the screen to focus on.

Fig 2 - Munich Scene

But as the singing voice is heard, when the viewpoint of the camera moves downward from the man in the hotel's veranda
Fig 3 - Munich Scene

Simultaneously with the black car running on the road, I will see a car parked on the street on the left.
Fig 4 - Munich Scene

This tense feeling development of this scene is directed by connecting the important sound effect and the conversation sound on the story one after another while sending a noisy environmental sound in the street. First of all, the sound resounds with the scene where the car that the assassination unit got on arrives.
Fig 5 - Munich Scene

Next, a girl who is the daughter of the executive gets going out and speaking while it goes out.
Fig 6 - Munich Scene

The sound of a car launched by a girl is launched. On the window of the car into which the assassination unit gets in, the appearance of the car running the girl is appearing.
Fig 7 - Munich Scene

Put coins in public phones and sound dialing dial.
Fig 8 - Munich Scene

And clicks to switch on the detonator in the car. While the image and sound are linking up so far, the state of the plan of assassination steadily progresses is drawn.
Fig 9 - Munich Scene

The plan is temporarily canceled. The sound that cuts off the phone and the sound that Konchari that the input coins come back sounds.
Fig 10 - Munich Scene

Meanwhile, the car on which the girls got back will come back. The sound that the car stops idling echoes. Everyone in the assassination unit is obstructing the sight of the truck and I do not realize that the girl is coming back.
Fig 11 - Munich Scene

But that the danger to the girls is spreading is conveyed to the audience only by the effect sound turning the dial.
Fig 12 - Munich Scene

The most exciting part of this scene, noticing the existence of the daughter in a panic and stopping the detonation, is directed to echoes and reverbs superimposed on environmental sounds to almost silence. The operating noise of the detonator which echoes in the silence anticipates the explosion that may occur after this and makes the viewer flatter.

Fig 13 - Munich Scene

Echo on environment sound, on / off of reverb, eerie sound of siren heard from afar, correspond to the heart of the hero one by one. Even without dialogue or BGM, you can draw enough story development and the emotions of characters in camera work and sound alone.
Fig 14 - Munich Scene

Week 5 | Storyboarding Exercise
We followed the storyboarding procedures explained in class and did a storyboarding 










Storyboard Exercise PDF


Google Drive Link for Exercise 1:
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