Video & Sound Production: Lectures + Exercises


29/8/23- // Week 1-Week 14
Mercy Chong HuiZiun // 0360929

Video & Sound Production // BDCM
Exercises

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Instructions


Fig 1.0 Module Information Booklet
Lectures

W1- Briefing 

W2- Framing & Storyboard
Earliest cinema(s)
Cinematography
  • Motion picture/ film/video is made up of many shots.
  • Shot is a continuous view shot by one camera without interruption.
  • Sequence is a series of scenes, or shots, complete in itself.
Shot size
> Determines how large the area that's visible within the frame.
  • Wide shot -> Extreme wide (eg: showing a cityscape to show where the character is in their environment.)
              -> Medium wide (A character shot that cuts off across the legs above/ below the knees)
  • Medium shot 
  • Close-up shot - to emphasize small details like facial expressions/ small objects.
    -> Medium close-up
    -> Extreme close-up
  • Over-the-shoulder shot - to show the character/main subject's POV.
[Most films uses medium shots to observe closer to the situation and follow the plot]

Composition: Rules of Thirds
Subject Angle: Composition
-> Facial modelling is best when subject is turned 45'to the camera.
-> Angle the camera so that parallel lines diminish and converge preferably towards the light.

Camera Angle: Subject height
  • Low angle
  • High angle
  • Eye angle
Screen direction
  • Dynamic screen direction
  • Static screen direction
W3: Storytelling in Film
Story structure
3-Act Structure
What is the Three Act Structure - Diagram

Beginning (Introduction)
: To introduce the world, main characters, situation
: Leads to an incident that complicates the story 
(Plot Point 1 to proceed to climax) 

Middle (Confrontation)


End (Resolution)

W4: Mise en Scene (putting on stage in French)
: Refers to what we see on screen; it's visuals, meaning, all of the elements that appear on camera and their arrangement.
  • Composition
  • Set Design
  • Lighting
  • Costume and Props
  • Depth of space
Composition
: Manipulating composition can accentuate the emotional themes of the story.
Exercises
Week #1
In-class Editing exercises
[Task To-do]
  • Download the footage given.
  • Create a new Premiere Pro project and import the clips.
  • Arrange the clip scenes accordingly and export the video.

Final footage:

We were also instructed to import another set of video clips and compile them together according to their order. 

Final footage:






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