For the second scene, I also put together all the clips provided, trimming and arranging them to make a good scene. I decided to split the last clip into two parts where the latter part of the girl removing her mask is slowed down to 60% to create some sort of dramatic effect.
Moving on to exercise 3, we were asked to work in pair where we were given a list of shots. Mr. Martin wanted us to try and take shots based on the types of shots required by using a phone camera. Here's what me and my friend shot.
Week 3
(10th of April 2018)
On the third week of class, Mr. Martin gave us a lecture about Art Structure which is divided into three:
- Beginning: setup/introduction of a story
- Middle: confrontation of problem
- End: resolution of problem
Mr. Martin told us to use 3-Act Structure as a guide in writing our story for our project. During Act 1, it is the set up so that's where you will find the answers to the question who, where, and what as it is where the introduction of characters, places, and what's actually going on happen. During Act 2, it's the confrontation where you will find the answer to the question why as it's where the story slowly reach the climax. During Act 3, this is where the solution to the problems in the story take place, answering the question what happened. To easily identify the climax, as I was kind of confused so I asked Mr. Martin about it, it is where the audience feel the most nervous when watching a movie.
Other than that, before moving from Act 1 to Act 2, there's this thing called Plot Point 1 which is like a turning point that shows the end of an introduction, moving the story to Act 2. Before proceeding to Act 3, there's also another Plot Point 2, showing the end of Act 2 that will guide audience to Act 3.
Exercise 4
After the lecture, Mr. Martin gave us an exercise where we will be watching two short films, one of which we've watched on previous class titled
Lalin. The other short film is a French film titled
The Piano Tuner. Then we were given a handout paper for us to identify which is Act 1, Plot Point 1, Act 2, Plot Point 2, Climax, and Resolution. Mr. Martin also wanted us to include Character Description based on our opinion. During the exercise itself, I was still not very sure of my answer but it was all cleared up when Mr. Martin discussed with us the answer. Here's the picture of my exercise sheet.
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| Fig. 4.a. Exercise 4 |
After discussing, Mr. Martin explained to us the timeline of the film
Lalin which is very complicated but it was arranged in a way that makes it a very good story. Mr. Martin also divided us into two groups for our exercise next week. My role will be as an assistant director where we will be filming based on the story that Mr. Martin will be handing to us.
Week 4
(17th of April 2018)
On the fourth week, there were no lectures. Mr. Martin gave us an exercise from last week which is to shoot the commercial that he showed us during last week's class, where my group received the emotional version of the commercial. The shooting process was kind of fun, watching the actors, who are our own classmates, act. The challenging thing about the whole exercise is finding the right angle and shooting it. Another thing was actually setting the light, which with Mr. Martin's help and advice we were able to do it well. The beginning of the shoot was also kind of awkward since it's our first time using a lot of equipment for shooting so there's a lot of things that are quite new and therefore we made a few mistakes in the beginning. As we move on however, we manage to film smoothly. It took us around 3 hours to finish shooting all the scenes.
Week 5
(24th of April 2018)
On the fifth week of the semester, Mr. Martin gave us a lecture about Lighting and Mise En Scene which is everything that needs to be prepared before they appear in a cinema. Mise En Scene itself when translated directly it means putting on stage. Mr. Martin showed us a few videos that emphasizes on the use of one of the things found in Mise En Scene, which are:
- Decors and Props
- Lighting
- Space
- Costume and Make Up
- Movement and Acting
Then he explained a little about three-point lighting, which is the most common usage of lighting for movies especially classic movies. Then there's low-key lighting, and shallow space. Afterwards, Mr. Martin asked us to look for a video that emphasizes on Mise En Scene and post it on the blog. Mr. Martin also explained that the software that we are using to edit now is also known as Non-Linear Editing Software which is the kind of editing where you can start editing either from the beginning of the clip, ending, or even the middle. As for Linear Editing, which is what's commonly used when movies were recorded in tapes before, you have to start editing from the beginning all the way to the end. After the lecture, Mr. Martin asked us to edit the videos that we shot last week as our exercise for this week.
Exercise 5
For this exercise, we will be using clips from last week which I imported into Adobe Premiere first.
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| Fig. 5.a. Videos from last week |
Afterwards I started editing the videos together. However, only when I played the video together do I notice that the audio on each clips are different, therefore it kind of creates a problem for the video to be played with audio because in one clip there's music, on the other there's not. But here's the video that I edited, which I also inserted the credits in the end.
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| Fig. 5.b. Screenshot of work space in Premiere |
I also added a video transition, Dip to Black, before the video transition to the credit.
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| Fig. 5.c. Another screenshot of work in Premiere |
Exercise 6
For this exercise which was based on our lecture for this week, Mr. Martin wanted us to look for videos that uses one of the Mise En Scene elements and explain it in our own perspective as to which element they use and how they use it. I tried to look for a few videos online, and I decided to use the music video of the song Oceans by Seafret. The music video started with a girl coming home from school looking for her mom but her mom seems to be out. The setting of the music video, which is the girl's house, shows emptiness and the feeling of being alone that the girl felt which I assume from school because following the next scene.
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| Fig. 6.a. Scene 1 from the video |
The girl removed her jacket, where her shirt shows the words 'LOSER' written on it. This is the usage of costume that shows the girl is being bullied in school.
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| Fig. 6.b. Scene 2 from the video |
Then she went into the closet and got out another costume which is like a hero's costume, to kind of show that she's actually strong and she's not scared of the bullies.
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| Fig. 6.c. Scene 3 from the video |
In the end, the girl returns home where her mom is finally back home, which shows just how much home is the safest place for her to be after being bullied.
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| Fig. 6.d. Scene 4 from the video |
Week 6
(1st of May 2018)
No class was conducted today.
Week 7
(8th of May 2018)
On the seventh week of class, Mr. Martin gave us a little lecture about color correction and color grading.
Color Correction is usually used in documentaries where exposure, contrast, and colors are adjusted to make things look neutral. In order to do color correction correctly, we have to learn how to look at things in 3 categories which are highlights, mid tones, and shadows. Another thing that helps during color correction is the waveform monitor which shows the distribution of exposure.
Color Grading is usually used in fictional movies to create cinematic effects. The colors used for color grading are usually more extreme.
After the short lecture, Mr. Martin gave us an exercise which is to use the videos that we shot last two weeks ago and correct the colors. Afterwards he asked us to do color grading as well, where in the first activity, the color should follow the reference that was given to us, and the last activity will be an orange teal color.
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| Fig. 7.a. Color editing mode on Adobe Premiere |
We were asked to first click on Color editing mode on Premiere, then do color correction on the basic correction panel.
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| Fig. 7.b. Basic Color Correction |
We should also pay attention to the Waveform Monitor, which for this we used Luma.
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| Fig. 7.c. Waveform Monitor |
Exercise 7
For exercise 7, we will be doing warm, cold, and orange teal color grading. To do color grading, we were required to create an Adjustment Layer so that we don't directly edit on the clips itself. I tried to do the warm and cold color grading first according to the references given. I adjusted the colors from Curves and Color Wheels panel. I created the Adjustment Layer, along with the pictures for references and placed them on the side.
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| Fig. 7.d. Using references for color grading |
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| Fig. 7.e. Result of color grading |
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| Fig. 7.f. Layers for the color grading |
Then I moved on to creating an orange teal color grading. Here's my first attempt on orange teal color, which Mr. Martin then told me that the blue color is not visible enough so he hellped me tweak here and there and asked me to try and play around with other settings.
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| Fig. 7.g. Orange teal color grading attempt |
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| Fig. 7.h. Color grading process |
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| Fig. 7.i. Final look after Mr. Martin helped out |
Week 8
(15th of May 2018)
On the eighth week of class, there was no lecture. Mr. Martin explained a little about the shooting exercise that we're going to be doing next week, as well as the video. We were asked to sit with our groups and discuss on how we wanted to film for the exercise. Then Mr. Martin consulted each of us on our final project idea to finalize everything.
Week 9
(22nd of May 2018)
On the ninth week, we did our filming exercise. We decided to shoot in Taylor's University itself and distribute the roles accordingly, where each member get to experience different roles.
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| Fig. 8.a. Files from shooting exercise |
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