The abstract edit – Sound n Image

This is an “abstract video” which has been showing the rain in someday and what people feel like.

In this semester, I think that I had been developed my technical skill of the editing staff in Premiere, rather than using After Effect that I have done before. I believe that the fun of doing editing is you can tell the story in many ways that you want to. When you editing it seem like you got the rough footage and you can put or change whatever you need such as sound, change color grading.

In the raw footage, my group tries to shot many things around RMIT building but we are not able to go outside because it was a rainy day, so we stay still in the building 13 and shot around that area. In the original footages, I decided to edit it in “rainstorm” concept, so I put the footage that relates to the concept and tries to do color grading into black and white video and put more contrast to making the video feel even worse. For the sound, I believe that I put on really suit with this video because it not so sad song but it can bring you into the rainy day.

Melbournenoir

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

I FOUND YOU !!

WHEREVER YOU GO,

I WILL…

BE THERE !!!!

Writing reflectively – Sound n Image

To step in to the world of professionals, this is the best time to start thinking about what people have said, what you have read, what you yourself are thinking and how your thinking has changed.

In the article of ‘writing reflectively‘, there are few approaches to guide reader how to do a reflection on any kind writing. 

Reflective thinking and writing

Reflective thinking happens naturally as the questions to explore. This step combines your prior experience and knowledge of the topic you worked on and also involves considering how and why you think that way. Through Reflective thinking, you recognise the valuable knowledge to every experience and clarify the important links between what you already know and what you are learning. It is a way of helping you to become an active, aware and critical learner. This practical thinking will assist you to be come pro-active and reactive in solving problems and dealing with hardship. in my opinion, reflective writing is a way to keep your reflective thinking as notes to learn.

Reflective writing bases on these followings.

• your reaction to experiences, others’s opinions, particular events or news.
• your thoughts and feelings
• your explore on learning
• your achievement in better understanding of what you are learning
• your writing skills
• your applying on similar situations.

I used to wonder why I need to “write” or “re-write” progress and events again after I already experienced that. But as soon as I started to record by writing what I have been through to complete projects , I realised that the reflection on the process is as important as doing it because of the connections, clarification and examination of the old and new knowledge, experiments and even the feelings. Progress  helps to learn new knowledge when reflection helps to re-consider them and integrate it with the previous knowledge. Writing reflection also helps me to widen my vision on how to adapt the theory to practical circumstances . Besides, when I reflect on what I have done, I have chance to explain why the mistakes occur and how to fix them next time to have a better result.

 

A scene – Sound n Image

A scene from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver

The movie became one of my favourite classic movie because of its wonderful frames, not so perfect but naturally attractive. The way Travis – the main character – appears in the movie will lead your mind to the 1970s’ life and make you follow the its story without any distraction.

A scene from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver

 

One of the most attractive scenes in this movie is when Travis asked Betty out by his unique way. Personally, I think this scene is not only great because of its content and the conversation, but it also has set-up with the perfect shots.

A scene from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver

Actually, the scene’s setup is pretty traditional – back and forth shifts between two main characters , over the shoulder shots, well-lighting and bright colour setting. For me, it’s only exceptional because of its well -location-set-up and actor Cybill Shepherd, who is my favourite.

The scenes in the Palantine campaign offices offer such a stark contrast in tone to most of the rest of the film. It’s almost like they’re cut out of some workplace sitcom. (One I’d definitely watch, too, if it meant I’d get to spend more time with Shepherd and Albert Brooks, the latter hilariously poking out his head behind the pillar here.)

A scene from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver

The power dynamics in this scene are just fascinating. Travis is basically in disguise, he’s dressed up pretending to be “normal” for her. We know this, but Betsy has yet to figure it out, of course. The way it’s presented here, she is clearly the one calling the shots. Which is why I love the scene’s final shot, and indeed my pick for best shot, which shows us (but not Travis) her confidant, triumphant smile:

A scene from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver

 

 

Crew roles – Sound n Image

One of the most essential and necessary thing to learn before joining a film crew is knowing exactly who they are and what they are doing as there are lots of roles in the crew who will collaborate together to complete their team work duties and support each other in individual tasks. The amount of personnel  helping you make your film varies widely from a simple duo to many hundreds of crew members.

In order to create a film or any media pieces, there is always a need of the talents and abilities of a production team, which includes:

A Producer – key coordinator for the production for monitoring production process, creative, financial, and administrative issues.

An Executive Producer – investor of the project.

The Production Manager – the executive producer ‘s close co-woker in charge of the budget and contribution in daily production decisions.

The Director – the primary talent responsible for all creative aspects such as story flow and acting of the film.

The 1st Assistant Director – the “boss” of the set who run the crew, with shooting schedules and arrange the whole stream of all production events and activities.

The 2nd Assistant Director – the documents’ manager taking care of scripts and call sheets to the cast and crew.

The Script Supervisor – the tracking manager who is responsible for all the shots in accordance with the script..

The Camera Operator – 1st Assistant Camera are the technical talents working with the cameras to shoot the scenes.

The 2nd assistant camera – the slate controller who takes care of what to write on the slate reflecting the right scene, shots, and takes.

The Production sound mixer‘- the sound recorder who ensure the sound is being properly recorded and mixed on set with the help of the Boom Operator holding the boom with the microphone on.

The Key Grip – the key holder in charge of camera cranes, dollies, lights, platforms and all on set equipment.

The Gaffer -the Chief Lighting Technician responsible for the lighting plan from design to execution.

The Production Designer – Creative Director.the is responsible for the visual appearance of the film.

 

These are more roles on set such as  Make-up Artist and Costumer Designer that I did not put in here. The roles and quantity of the film crew depends on the need of each type of movies and the budget for it. The most important thing is that each of the member are passionate and responsible for their duties.

Goals and Desires – Sound n Image

This semester I would like to gain better experience with the technical side of production such as editing, recording sounds and working with cameras  well as follow a lot of writing experiences so that I would have the courage to make proper effort and not shy away due to a fear of failure. In Particular, firstly I would like to do be more proficient using cameras and mixers including learning how to have the best frame shots and do white balance and focus point. That does not mean I only desire to work in camera position always, but want to explore other roles , especially the ones that I feel less competent, to have chance to experiment and experience.

My desire for this semester also develop my abilities and responsibilities in team work. Unlike last semester in which I focus most on making others’ concept into visuals, I would like to dedicate my own ideas and knowledge as well and let my imagination express through my own design and products. I would like to take the cost seriously, not a ” rush job” that needs to be done , but an interesting experiment completes with passion and pleasant.

I have really enjoyed post-production. I’ve been surprised at how much I’ve been able to enjoy the technical aspects of film. I appreciated the consistent attention we gave to learning skills in the tutorials and lectures. It was great to have the opportunity to revisit things the next week to solidify the process in our memory.

I think I did a good job with taking the opportunity to learn about other roles than my own by observation. I would have liked to learn more about lighting and editing but with the lighting it was a case of needing to let people do what they had to to get things done. I’m hoping next semester I can be more involved in that aspect.

I have really loved this course but it has been a bit overwhelming in terms of workload. I think I burnt myself out a little bit so that by the time filming was over I didn’t have the energy I would have liked to have to put into post production. That I think is probably just a reality of the course, that a lot of work needs to be done combined with my not knowing how to alleviate time pressures else where to give myself the proper time to work on production house in the future.

My goals for this semester were quite simple: I wanted to work on someone else’s idea to enable me to concentrate on enhancing my technical and practical skills. After writing the script. I wasn’t ever able to step away from worrying about the story and focus on other things so it was nice to have the opportunity to acquire new skills. I also wanted to make sure I was involved in the editing process because I hadn’t had the opportunity time wise to contribute anything of any use last semester to the process. I am happy with the progress I have made through the semester and am looking forward to developing my skills further in future projects!

 

Keyboard Shortcuts – Sound n Image

If you can do any one thing to increase your editing speed it would be to add keyboard shortcuts to the mix. Typically the more keyboard shortcuts you use the faster and more efficiently you will be able to edit.

Editing is an essential part of making any film or video. As Francis Ford Coppola says, “The essence of cinema is editing. It’s the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.” So editing becomes the most important part of making a film because it is the final part and can fix or editing something that director do not want in there.

     In fact directing and editing a film or video are often performed by the same person so they have to find the easy and fastest way to do a lot of work which means Keyboard shortcuts are practically essential for using any type of Program. They’ll speed up almost everything you do. But long lists of keyboard shortcuts can quickly become overwhelming if you’re just getting started.

This list will cover the most useful keyboard shortcuts that every Windows user should know. If you haven’t used keyboard shortcuts much, these will show you just how useful keyboard shortcuts can be.

• SHIFT + enter = play from beginning
• enter = stop
• space = play
• delete, backspace = deletes the selected clip from timeline
• CTRL+z/y = undo/redo
• SHIFT+left = previous keyframe
• SHIFT +right = next keyframe
• left = go to previous clip
• right = go to next clip
• e = edit clip
• s = split clip
• i = trim to inpoint
• o = trim to outpoint
• up = go to outpoint of current clip
• down = goto inpoint of current clip
• When popups are open:
  • esc = cancel
  • enter = confirm
• CTRL+s = save

* On Mac CTRL equals CMD.

To sum up, I had used all of them, they’re really useful for me because it makes my editing speeder then before, but if I even use it often sometime can be forgotten it so you should use it more often as you can.

** Keyboard Shortcuts / Adobe CC 2015 **

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