Sunday, March 28, 2010
week5-YING
This week we pitched our ideas for our short films to the class and got some useful feedbacks. Our first film which is the short documentary about young people's outfits on weekends outside night clubs received positive feedbacks and suggestions of a test shot at the location at night to test the sound and lighting were made. Our second film, the interactive video was seem to be more challenging due to the post production work.
week6-YING
This week we took our filming equipments out to the shooting location and did a test shot at the place. We set up the equipments at 9:30 and had permission to film at Brooklyn Hotel. Our main goal of the night was to test the lighting and sound because we have never filmed at night in the city, and were worried about the level of light exposures and loud sound interference.
After setting up, we found that there is a good source of light outside the hotel, however, there was problems with the earphone and sound connection so i could not hear any sound. However, reaction and attitudes of the people who we have chosen to shoot was great, most people were happy to be apart of the interview or simply be appearing in our project. We will be sure to check all our equipments before the next shoot.
After setting up, we found that there is a good source of light outside the hotel, however, there was problems with the earphone and sound connection so i could not hear any sound. However, reaction and attitudes of the people who we have chosen to shoot was great, most people were happy to be apart of the interview or simply be appearing in our project. We will be sure to check all our equipments before the next shoot.
Week 7
Hey hey hey. Thats week 7 already. So, Im gonna tell you about our progress.
On weekend we tried to film our first video. Friday was supposed to be the test day, while we are waiting for permission to film in different clubs. So far, we had one permission from Brooklyn Hotel on George St. We picked up the equipment on Friday at 1pm, checked if everything is there, then charged batteries at home and met near the location at 9pm.
Unfortunately, it turned out that the tripod is broken: one leg cant be fixed in one position. I assume that it is the same tripod which was broken the previous semester. So, we decided to film without tripod though we needed it for interviews.
When we started filming the crowd near clubs we found out that our sound person cant hear anything through headphones. We tried to fix it but it was clear that camera is picking the sound through both micros and the problem is with headphones' input.
We ended up shooting general scenes like the line to the club, the way to the club, people in the line, streets. We can use it later in video with music on the background.
On saturday I was helping a UTS student with an Avatar inspired photoshoot and filmed a part of process to practice.
Week 10
Today is ANZAC day so the class is canceled. It is too bad because we could only use the computer which with Final Cut Pro and got our captures to edit our films, however, we got 2 films captured in one computer, plus Insearch is closed because it is public holiday, we only have two classes to finish our editing. It is impossible for Valeriya to finish them all, so we have to work together with Valeriya from next week. Anita and Ying will work on “Wasted” (the interactive video), me and Valeriya will work on “Trash Bags” (interview). The second assignment of COMM 416 and COMM 418 are both due on this Thursday, hopefully we can do it.
Week 9
It's week 9 already, heaps of assignments are killing us. Valeriya has finished capturing the scenes. I’ve been researching on how to make the interactive video for a week. Also, I’ve finished drawing the story board for the interactive video.
Here I want to show some tutorial videos and websites I’ve found were useful and helpful:
Interactive videos
http://blogs.adobe.com/keyframes/2007/10/creating_interactive_video_wit.html
Adobe TV
http://tv.adobe.com/
Create an Interactive Movie with Flash MX and QuickTime
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/minisites/flash8/f/mtutorials/5154.html
[125] Interactive Flash 1
http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=flashFayInteractiveBasics1&fromSeriesID=46
Here I want to show some tutorial videos and websites I’ve found were useful and helpful:
Interactive videos
http://blogs.adobe.com/keyframes/2007/10/creating_interactive_video_wit.html
Adobe TV
http://tv.adobe.com/
Create an Interactive Movie with Flash MX and QuickTime
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/minisites/flash8/f/mtutorials/5154.html
[125] Interactive Flash 1
http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=flashFayInteractiveBasics1&fromSeriesID=46
Week 8
Today is the first class since we are back from the Easter holiday. Valeriya started to edit the videos that we have shot during the holiday.
As we've got two videos which last over 80 mins we couldn't captured them all because it would take too much time. So Valeriya decided to review the recordings and get the log-in sheet done first. She planned to capture the chosen scenes only according to the log-in sheet. I was sitting next to her helped finish this work.
According to the instruction of how to make the log-in sheets, we marked our videos as 4 tapes since there were gaps occurred caused by rewinding during recording. We got the log-in sheet done by the time class was over.
As we've got two videos which last over 80 mins we couldn't captured them all because it would take too much time. So Valeriya decided to review the recordings and get the log-in sheet done first. She planned to capture the chosen scenes only according to the log-in sheet. I was sitting next to her helped finish this work.
According to the instruction of how to make the log-in sheets, we marked our videos as 4 tapes since there were gaps occurred caused by rewinding during recording. We got the log-in sheet done by the time class was over.
Week 7
We had a week of study break last week but we didn’t neglect our studies! We finished our interview shooting on Friday, 1st April. The night was awesome! We captured lots of interesting interviews and most of them were hilarious.
We took that Easter Monday to film our second film, that interactive video. Joel was the actor and he really helped us a lot. He sometimes took my job as the camera operator whilst he was acting because it would be better and easier if he could use one hand to hold that camera and shoot his the other hand.
We are happy that we’ve done all the shooting tasks. ^o^
We took that Easter Monday to film our second film, that interactive video. Joel was the actor and he really helped us a lot. He sometimes took my job as the camera operator whilst he was acting because it would be better and easier if he could use one hand to hold that camera and shoot his the other hand.
We are happy that we’ve done all the shooting tasks. ^o^
Week 6
We decided to have a test shooting day before the study break week this Friday because we were not sure if the lightening and loud sound interference outside of the club would be the problems of recording the interview.
We borrowed the prop after class and arrived to Brooklyn Hotel by 9:30. After we set up everything, we started filming. There was a theme event called The Ladies’ Night so there were lots of girls had great outfits. We thought that maybe we could just keep the record as the part of the footage. Everything was good except Ying (our sound recorder) couldn’t hear anything from the headphone. We tried to adjust the setting but still didn’t work. We thus stopped filming but kept the recording because we thought it probably the headphone’s problem.
Here we took some photos:
We borrowed the prop after class and arrived to Brooklyn Hotel by 9:30. After we set up everything, we started filming. There was a theme event called The Ladies’ Night so there were lots of girls had great outfits. We thought that maybe we could just keep the record as the part of the footage. Everything was good except Ying (our sound recorder) couldn’t hear anything from the headphone. We tried to adjust the setting but still didn’t work. We thus stopped filming but kept the recording because we thought it probably the headphone’s problem.
Here we took some photos:
Week 5
Today we pitched the ideas of our short films to the class and received many valuable feedbacks. We decided to make two films. The first one will be a documentary video in the form of interview. The interview will be in relation to the outfits of the club party animals on the weekend nights. The other one will be the interactive film as we discussed last week. The story line basically center around an average uni student’s general day but in a game mode. Endings will be set up, audience need to finish the day (reach the different endings) by choosing the options from different tasks such as how much they will spend on friend’s birthday.
As the cinematographer, I watched some interview documentary and interactive videos on Youtube (such as "Jubliee Boat Party Interview with Louise da Tease" and "Dress Us!" ), I think I have had the general ideas in mind of how my two films will be looked like. The interview documentary, we’ll interview people who are wearing gorgeous, unique, standout or interesting clothes and stuff outside of the night club while they are lining up. When we are recording, I’m going to hold camera by hands instead of using the tripod because the outcome is going to be more natural and effective especially after postproduction. The second film, the interactive video, we decided to shoot it in the audience’s point of view, so the actor’s face will not be appeared, only his hands will be in the frames. Toula told us me that to shoot this kind of scenes, I just need to stand behind the actor and hold the camera higher him and that’s it. I have to try very hard to cooperate well with the actor.
I met the boss Kenneth Lee of the club event organizing company Next Generation Entertainment later today. He had given me the oral permissions of shooting around Brooklyn Hotel on Friday nights and Martin Place Bar on Saturday nights.
As the cinematographer, I watched some interview documentary and interactive videos on Youtube (such as "Jubliee Boat Party Interview with Louise da Tease" and "Dress Us!" ), I think I have had the general ideas in mind of how my two films will be looked like. The interview documentary, we’ll interview people who are wearing gorgeous, unique, standout or interesting clothes and stuff outside of the night club while they are lining up. When we are recording, I’m going to hold camera by hands instead of using the tripod because the outcome is going to be more natural and effective especially after postproduction. The second film, the interactive video, we decided to shoot it in the audience’s point of view, so the actor’s face will not be appeared, only his hands will be in the frames. Toula told us me that to shoot this kind of scenes, I just need to stand behind the actor and hold the camera higher him and that’s it. I have to try very hard to cooperate well with the actor.
I met the boss Kenneth Lee of the club event organizing company Next Generation Entertainment later today. He had given me the oral permissions of shooting around Brooklyn Hotel on Friday nights and Martin Place Bar on Saturday nights.
Week 4
We handed in our first assignment today. This assignment was to write a review of an interactive web-documentary called ‘Journey to the End of Coal.’ After we handed in all our assignments we started to discuss our final project.
Valeriya looked extremely excited as she came up the idea of making a similar video in terms of interactivity. We were all cool with that. We worked out some ideas of doing this interactive video such as “My Day”, that the main character would spend a day with the limited budget. Similar like a game, how the day (the game) was going to be end would depend on how the audience would select their options during the day.
We also assigned the roles of our project crew and distributed the tasks each person should do while we were working on our project. Valeriya kept the copy of the hand writing.
Anita- producer & Project Manager:
1. Buy tapes
2. Copyright and locations' permissions
3. Budgeting, safety of crew and equipment
4. Manage meetings
5. Food, props, travel costs
6. Production scheduling
Valeriya- director, writer, editor:
1. Script writing/editing
2. Directing cinematographer
3. Working with actors and other crew members
4. Editing the video, edit script
5. Video logging sheet (the one Rommel did in previous semester)
Nicole- cinematographer, camera operator:
1. Find location
2. Storyboard
3. Camera operating
4. Communicating with director, sound, light
5. Checking equipment, charge batteries
6. Tapes check, reflections
7. Focus, frames, setting of the camera, exposure shadow speed dial, white balance.
Ying- sound designer, sound recordist, outfit supervisor:
1. Check id sound is clear, test location if its suitable
2. Sound recording with camera operator
3. Sound effects and editing sound
4. Microphones and tech
5. Styling of the set and actors outfits if applicable
In addition, we will need a DVD + cover and individual evaluations.
Valeriya looked extremely excited as she came up the idea of making a similar video in terms of interactivity. We were all cool with that. We worked out some ideas of doing this interactive video such as “My Day”, that the main character would spend a day with the limited budget. Similar like a game, how the day (the game) was going to be end would depend on how the audience would select their options during the day.
We also assigned the roles of our project crew and distributed the tasks each person should do while we were working on our project. Valeriya kept the copy of the hand writing.
Anita- producer & Project Manager:
1. Buy tapes
2. Copyright and locations' permissions
3. Budgeting, safety of crew and equipment
4. Manage meetings
5. Food, props, travel costs
6. Production scheduling
Valeriya- director, writer, editor:
1. Script writing/editing
2. Directing cinematographer
3. Working with actors and other crew members
4. Editing the video, edit script
5. Video logging sheet (the one Rommel did in previous semester)
Nicole- cinematographer, camera operator:
1. Find location
2. Storyboard
3. Camera operating
4. Communicating with director, sound, light
5. Checking equipment, charge batteries
6. Tapes check, reflections
7. Focus, frames, setting of the camera, exposure shadow speed dial, white balance.
Ying- sound designer, sound recordist, outfit supervisor:
1. Check id sound is clear, test location if its suitable
2. Sound recording with camera operator
3. Sound effects and editing sound
4. Microphones and tech
5. Styling of the set and actors outfits if applicable
In addition, we will need a DVD + cover and individual evaluations.
Week 3
Two weeks have past. Since Valeriya's back, we have decided our topic of our campaign. Our social awareness campaign will center on students' overspending and consumerism. We are aiming to give students advices of personal finance and budget management, and promote anti-consumerism. Other members didn't like the idea of making a film of swapping clothes so we still have to think about what we would film for this final subject.
By the end of the class, we had come up with some ideas:
1. making several short films instead of one. Styles would be different: punk/grunge, retro/vintage, hippy/ flower power...
2. video with reversed dressing: first we are showing several girls/boys dressed up in great outfits, then we are showing how and where they found them (op-shops, second-hands, retro vintage shops, hand-made)
3. interviews with picked people on streets, we are going to ask them to talk about their outfits, if their clothes are branded, etc...
During the class, Toula showed us a web-documentation called “Journey to the End of Coal”. We will write a review of this web-doc as our first assignment. So we will work on our first assignment as the priority on this weekend.
By the end of the class, we had come up with some ideas:
1. making several short films instead of one. Styles would be different: punk/grunge, retro/vintage, hippy/ flower power...
2. video with reversed dressing: first we are showing several girls/boys dressed up in great outfits, then we are showing how and where they found them (op-shops, second-hands, retro vintage shops, hand-made)
3. interviews with picked people on streets, we are going to ask them to talk about their outfits, if their clothes are branded, etc...
During the class, Toula showed us a web-documentation called “Journey to the End of Coal”. We will write a review of this web-doc as our first assignment. So we will work on our first assignment as the priority on this weekend.
Week 2
Groups and members have been divided and decided in Ros' class, I will work with Ying, Anita and Valeriya this semester. We've got some ideas of the social awareness campaign: raising money for providing food and shelter for those homeless people; environmental issues such as the pollution of chewing gum; safe driving; party drug and swapping cloths. Ros liked the idea of swapping clothes, she said swap clothes could be a media vehicle to support a students' budget management campaign. We could hold an event called swapping clothes party.
We thought we could record the real whole process or set up some scenes to film.
Also, we watched three videos in class: 9/11 The Falling Man, Kotta Walks- Performing Locality, and Butterfly man. We discussed the camera shooting skills during class and I found hand holding camera is a great technique to catch the face expressions well.
We thought we could record the real whole process or set up some scenes to film.
Also, we watched three videos in class: 9/11 The Falling Man, Kotta Walks- Performing Locality, and Butterfly man. We discussed the camera shooting skills during class and I found hand holding camera is a great technique to catch the face expressions well.
Week 1
Ok, it's COMM416, the final stage of Communication Skills. I still remember how much fun we had in doing the filming project last semester and now I'm really looking forward to film another movie and to know who I will work with. I'm also excited because not as boring as last semester, we will have chance to edit our movie after filming. I hope I can have time to do some editing of ALARM (our project done by semester 3) by the end of this semester, too.
During the class I heard that this semeter we would have lots of group works regarding to launch and promote a social awareness campaign, so that the movie I would film would be better to relate to the campaign. I thought it would be easier for us as we would not need to rack our brains to think about the theme.
As today was the first day of semester 4, we haven't been broke into groups but I knew I would work with Ying again this semester, so we started to think about the ideas of the campaign and films in class and on our way home.
During the class I heard that this semeter we would have lots of group works regarding to launch and promote a social awareness campaign, so that the movie I would film would be better to relate to the campaign. I thought it would be easier for us as we would not need to rack our brains to think about the theme.
As today was the first day of semester 4, we haven't been broke into groups but I knew I would work with Ying again this semester, so we started to think about the ideas of the campaign and films in class and on our way home.
Week 7
So over the weekend, we had our very first test shoot. We met at the Brooklyn Hotel a bit before 10pm, where Nicole got permission from the owners because she works there. We planned on filming the line, doing a few interviews and just checking the light and sound and making any adjustments that needed to be done before we did our proper shoot in a few weeks.
Trouble is, the sound didn't work. Or rather, the microphones were picking up sound but we weren't hearing it on the headphones. We had a few goes at trying to fix the sound, but it didn't work. So instead, we decided to get some visuals- we got some random drunk people giving each other piggybacks, if I remember correctly, as well as a party bus where the people were all waving at each other, and a tracking shot where we walked down the road to the club with the camera, and in post-production we'll speed it up as part of the opening credits or something.
We're going to have to do a proper shoot later on once we have proper equipment and permission from the clubs/councils I emailed.
Week 6
This week, I started emailing places to get filming permission. I've tried a few clubs and haven't heard from any of them yet, so I also tried City of Sydney Council and Marrickville Council so we can get permission to shoot on the streets around the CBD and Newtown. I don't have to worry about the test shoot this weekend because Nicole already got permission from the Brooklyn Hotel, though.
I also started working on a list of questions that we can ask people, about what they're wearing and what they think clothes say about people. Similar to those red-carpet shows where they just ask the celebrities what they're wearing. Except we want to get some footage of really wasted people, just for comedic effect. The plan is to open with a black screen, serene piano music ( I could ask my friend Steph if we can use a piece she composed so we don't have to worry about copyright laws) and a Coco Chanel quote. Then, a truck ( our logo) comes driving across the screen, pushing out the quote, loud rock music starts playing and the word 'Trashbags' appears. Then at the end, to be ironic, we'll have a Paris Hilton quote that says exactly the same thing as the Chanel quote (something about being different and not blending in) and a bunch of outtakes of really wasted people, or girls carrying their heels in their hands, or something to emphasise the 'trashbag' aspect of the film.
Week 5
This week we presented our idea for our project(s) to the class- essentially, a documentary and an interactive game with short video clips to put on our campaign website along with the documentary. The documentary's going to be called 'Trashbags'- a reference to our Trash 'n' Treasure campaign and the drunk people- the 'trashbags' - that we will be filming. The plan is to interview people in the lines outside clubs about their fashion choices and what they believe clothes say about a person. The fact that a lot of the people we interview will be drunk will add to the project's comedic effect and make it relatable to our target audience-uni students.
We aren't really sure what to do for the interactive one yet, just some sort of game that makes people realise how easy it is to spend money on stuff you don't need.
Week 4
This week we decided that we wanted to do 2 videos- one, a documentary about fashion (most likely interviewing people in lines outside clubs) and an interactive video similar to the webdoc 'Journey to the Centre of Coal' . One idea we had was to film a day in the life of a student, and all the various decisions they have to make about what to spend each day. The idea behind it is to show how easy it is to spend money unnecessarily when you're a student.
We wrote down a few ideas of places where we could go to film specific types of people, and a few possible questions that we could ask them,as well as ideas about how we wanted the documentary to look.i.e. did we want to be visible as the creators of the documentary, or be 'invisible'?
Week 3
This week we organised our roles for our group project.I'm the producer, which means I'm in charge of compiling all the documentation for the project as well as co-ordinating what everyone else is doing and getting permission for various locations if we need it. We haven't decided what we want to do yet, but we were thinking of making a few short films as opposed to one long one. We also like the idea of doing a documentary because we wouldn't have to do a storyboard, and it would be interesting to do one on the same subject matter as our campaign- ie. student spending/consumerism.
Week 2
This week we organised groups for the film project. I'm in a group of 4 with Valeriya,Ying and Nicole, and we want to make a film that's related to our social awareness campaign on student budgets/consumerism. We won't be starting proper planning for a few weeks though, because we have another assignment for this class due next week and we'll most likely be busy with that for the next couple of weeks.
Week 1
This week we found out about our assessments for this semester, and what we need to do. We're doing another big film project like last semester but this time we have to do editing as well. I'm not in a group yet, though.
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