VIDEO & SOUND PRODUCTION

December 17, 2018

VIDEO & SOUND PRODUCTION | FINAL PROJECT

02/11/18 - 03/12/18 | Week 10 - Week 15
Yeoh Xiao Shi (0331577)
Video & Sound Production
Final Project

LECTURE

Lecture 10 : Lightning & Mise En Scene
02/10/18 (Week 10)

In this week class, we were given a lecture about lightning and mis en scene which included all the aspects that we would need to know for our upcoming shoot. Other than that, we were also taught on storyboarding and shot list to map out the scene. This process is said to be important as it would help us to understand the overall shot compositing, camera angle and movement better when filming. In the class, we were also told to start doing the storyboard and shot list.

Embedded PDF of Week 10 lecture slides.

INSTRUCTIONS

FINAL PROJECT
FastJobs short film (Week 10 - Week 14)

Week 10 (01/11/18)
The final project is basically a continuation of project 1 which is our storyboard proposal and we were required to produce a short advertisement for FastJobs based on that. Some of the stories were selected and the story created will be assigned as the director. Initially, Thooba's story was selected so me and another team member, Ron will need to assist her with the proposal slides. However, the story was rejected during the first presentation as the story is too long and boring for the audience to understand. Thus, we have to come out with a new storyline.

During our group discussion, Ron has come out with a new idea that have a similar theme with the previous one but a new storyline. Here is the initial proposal for the presentation below.

Embedded PDF of my group initial proposal.

Week 10 (02/11/18)
From yesterday presentation, the client commented that the idea for my group storyline was good but there is one of the part we need to make changes where he decided to sell all his assets and moves away from the busy city life. While in today class, we were told to to update the slides with latest storyline, short list, storyboard, locations selected, cast and crew list as well as the props needed.

Hence, I move on to create the short list with updated storyline so that we can proceed to make the storyboard and start planning for the location, cast and props. Here is the initial shot list for the story below.

Fig.1.1: Short list for the story.

Week 11 (08/11/18)

This week is an e-learning week so we need to work remotely from home. Meanwhile, there is another 2 members, Farzana & Brian joining our group as we need more people to work on this project. They did help us a lot in updating the slides for the proposal as well as sharing their ideas to improve the story. Here is our updated slides below.

Embedded PDF of my group updated proposal.

Week 12 (08/11/18)
For this week, we got to have a short consultation with Mr Martin. We were told to make changes for the main character's dream job from working as a cook to something else as there is another group having the same concept. After discussion, we decided to change the dream job of the main character to a barista that working in a cafe. Then, we proceed to update the proposal with the latest storyline and here is the final proposal approved by our lecturer and client below.

Embedded PDF of my group final proposal.

Pre-production Phase : storyboard being finalised, assigned the roles of the cast and crew, plan for shooting schedule, locations are selected, preparation of the props.

Fig.2.1: Storyboard 1.

Fig.2.2: Storyboard 2.

Fig.2.3: Storyboard 3.

Fig.2.4: Casts & Crews List.

Fig.2.5: Shooting schedule.

Fig.2.6: The casts.

Fig.2.7: Locations selected.

Fig.2.8: Props & equipments for shooting.

Week 13 (22/11/18)
First day of filming : office scenes & meeting the client scenes

Production Phase : all the members on their duty, filming process.

Fig.3.1: Office scenes. (behind the scenes)

Fig.3.2: Meeting scenes. (behind the scenes)

Week 14 (26/11/18)
Second day of filming : cafe scenes & home scenes

Fig.4.1: Cafe scenes. (behind the scenes)

Fig.4.2: Cafe scenes. (behind the scenes)

Fig.4.3: Home scenes. (behind the scenes)

Week 15 (03/12/18)
Third day of filming : car break scenes & traffic jam scenes

Fig.5.1: Car scenes. (behind the scenes)

Once we finished all the shooting, we were told to choose the footage that we want to use from all the clips and placed it in one folder. Then, we were asked to do a rough cut with the footage. We also got to have a short consultation with Mr Martin to show him the first cut. After the video being finalised, he asked us to find some references for the colour and start doing colour correction. Farzana and I was in charged to edit the video as well as the colour correction, while Ron was in charge for the audio part. The figures below showed our group process on editing the video.

Post-production Phase : process of editing the video & adding the audio.