VIDEO & SOUND PRODUCTION - EXERCISES

28/8/19 - 18/9/19 (Week 4)

Neoh Kar Yan (0339338)

Video & Sound Production

Exercises

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INSTRUCTIONS

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EXERCISES

28/8/19 (Week 1)

For our first class, Mr. Martin gave us a brief introduction about the module and explained  to us that he will be conducting more on the video production while Mr. Razif on sound production. He also mentioned that we will be required to pair up for our final project which is to produce a stop motion video. For our first exercise, we were taught how to do some basic editing with Adobe Premiere Pro with a series of clips given. 

We were asked to look for three stop motion videos that we like and explain what we like about it. Here are the 3 stop motion videos that I chose.

1. Submarine Sandwich - PES
The use of random objects to be made into a sandwich feels surreal. The sound effects, the fluidity of every movement, feels as if I am watching a real sandwich-making video. To compare how real a stop motion video is to reality is insane.

2. Shiny - Daniel Cloud Campos & Spencer Susser

I love how this stop-motion focuses on fabric as their medium. It has an amazing storyline and the animation is superb. The fighting scenes in this stop motion has good movement. I like how it keeps the viewers entertained at all times, and that each time there would be new surprises happening to the plot. 

3. Crazy office worker's night meal - Omozoc

I like the quirky concept in this video where the man came home from work and start cutting and making everything random for his food.  To make non-food items to appear like food requires a change in perspective. Thus, this stop motion tweaks our reaction towards the non-food items being prepared as real food. It is paired with good sound effects and movement which increase the effect of realism. 

4/9/19 (Week 2)

We started off the class by showing our 3 favourite stop motion videos to the class. Then, Mr. Martin taught us how to trim and overlap the videos we did last week. In our next session of the lecture, Mr. Razif gave us a short lecture about the properties of sound. Then, we were introduced to Adobe Audition where he taught us how to improve audio quality using the parametric equalizer.

VIDEO & SOUND EDITING

Using last week's progress on the video, we trimmed and overlapped the video. The end goal of this exercise was to trim the whole video from more than a minute to 50 seconds.

Here is my final outcome.

For our next exercise, we were provided with an original track and 6 modified tracks. Our task was to compare and readjust the 6 modified tracks by using the parametric equalizer effect to match the original. 

Fig.2.1: Parametric Equalizer

Fig.2.2: Process

Fig.2.3: eq 1

Fig.2.4: eq 2

Fig.2.5: eq 3

Fig.2.6: eq 4

Fig.2.7: eq 5

Fig.2.8: eq 6

WEEK 2 PROGRESSION - STOP MOTION IDEA PROPOSAL 

My stop motion idea is to tell a story with a very conceptual and deep storyline. I want to create something that also brings some sort of humor at the same time. So that the viewers are required to think about the concept as well as being entertained at the same time. I plan to use mix media such as clay, paper cut and puppets. The visual style is like Negative Space by Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter. I really like the storyline and the use of the medium plays a crucial part in the storyline as well. I love the miniature style and the atmosphere the project gives. I aspire to create something like this. The selling point of my stop motion would be the storyline and the concept of the project.

Fig.2.3: Visual Style #1

Fig.2.4: Visual Style #2

Fig.2.5: Visual Style #3

11/9/19 (Week 3)

Mr. Martin gave us a lecture on shooting cinematography which includes types of shots, camera angles, subject angles and storytelling in film.

Types of Shots:

• Extreme wide shot (EWS)
• Wide Shot (WS)
• Medium Wide Shot (MWS)
• Medium Shot (MS)
• Medium Close Up (MCU)
• Off the Shoulder Shot (O.S)
• Close Up Shot (CS)
• Extreme Close Up Shot (ECU)

After learning about the types of shots, we were asked to pair up with someone and do a shooting exercise around campus. We were required to take a short video of 5 seconds showcasing each type of angles used in cinematography. For this exercise, I paired up with Qian hui.

Fig.2.6: Storyboard #1

Fig.2.7: Storyboard #2

Here is our compiled shooting practice.

For the next exercise, we learned how to adjust audio to sound like it's coming from a telephone, walkie-talkie, and closet.

Fig.3.1: Telephone 

Audio for telephone:

 

Fig.3.2: Closet

Audio for Closet:


We were asked to go home and create a sound as if it is an announcer at a stadium. We were required to showcase echo, reverb and a sense of space. I added reverb and echo as well as adjusted the quality with parametric equalizer.

Fig.3.3: Stadium 

Fig.3.4: Stadium

Audio for stadium:

2/10/19 (Week 6)

This week we learned how to do colour correction for our videos in Premier Pro. We also learned how to improve the audio for our video by using noise reduction.