Video and Sound Production - Project 2
Video and Sound Production
28.8.2023 - 1.12.2023
Johnny Lam Wee Zhe
(0363436)
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
LECTURE
In this lecture, we get to learn more on the production team and the process of production and what each of the role does for the production shoot. Here are the following roles:
Producer - The producer is involve in the entire process of the production from the development to the finalization of the production. Their task involves hiring workers for the production, raises funding, supervises and coordinates production.
Screenwriter - The screenwriter arranges structures of the story in a way that makes logical sense to the story and in a way that makes the movie sound more interesting.
Director - The directors supervise the creative parts of the filming and controls the content of the film and the flow of the story plot as well as the technical parts of filming such as camera visuals and sounds and music.
Assistant Director - The assistant director helps the director and supervises in every shoot and manages the film crews. They ensures the shoot gets shot on schedule and maintains the work environment so that the crew can focus on their own jobs.
Director of Photography/Cinematography - Director of Photography or DOP for short, is the head of the camera and lighting department of film-making. They are in charge of making camera and lighting related decision in accordance to the director's instructions.
Gaffer - Gaffer is the head of the electrical department of
film-making. They are in charge of the execution of lighting before a shoot.
They are sometimes credited as 'Chief Lighting Technician'.
Sound Recordist - The sound recordist is the head of the sound department of film-making. They are in charge of all sound recording in filming.
Production Designer - The production designer is in charge of the visual appearance of the film such as costumes, props, sets, character makeup etc.
Film Editor - Rearranges multiple shots into a more understandable story structure. They often work closely with the director.
Visual Effects Artist - Visual effects artist is in charge of compositing different imagery from other sources aside from the shoot such as computer generated graphics, text, animations etc.
Sound Designer - The sound designer is in charge of the sounds during the post production of film-making.
There are several stages of a movie production:
1) Development - The development stage is the first stage of film
production where the planning, write and organizing takes place. It is also where
the budget of film-making is determined, actors playing what roles, locations
scouted and multiple scripts and drafts written.The development stage can take
for an extended number of time and may last up to months and even years before
production can take place. At this point, only the creatives and executives
are needed in this stage.
2) Pre-production - The second stage is the pre-production stage where
the concept of the movie has be solid and work heavily on to ensure the
quality of story telling. It is during this stage when casts are hired,
location is found, scripts are finalize etc. This is when all checklist has to
be ticked before the major production.
3) Production - The production stage is the third stage of film production where the actual shoot occurs. During production, crews, props, casts and equipment are brought to the location to gather capture all the necessary footage.
4) Post-production - The post production stage is the next stage.
During this stage, the footage captured during the production stage is
gathered and edited as well as the sounds, both recorded during the shoot and
outside the shoot. It's also during this time when the title of the project is
given. Despite it's name, the post production stage takes place at the same
duration that production happens to ensure the identification of problems such
as a plot hole in stories and footage troubles.
5) Distribution - The distribution stage is the final stage of film
production. The project is complete and is ready to be distributed. In this
stage, the project is shown to the audience either on television, theater or
streaming services.
INSTRUCTIONS
PROJECT 2A - PRODUCTION SHOOT
Video Production
For the first part of the project, we are tasked with creating a shoot as a team and is grouped into two. One group will be taking footage shoots based on scenes extracted from the movie 'Beef' and the other from the movie 'Silent'. My group does the former.
Here are the list of roles of the movie production:
Producer: Alefiya
Director: Asma
Assistant Director 1: Liew Xiao Hui
Assistant Director 2: Gam Jze Shin
Art Director: Ng Jia Ern
D.O.P: Ameera
Camera Assistant 1: Tan Zhao Yi
Camera Assistant 2: Janice
Lighting crew 1: Tan Jie Ying
Lighting crew 2: Kelly Lau
Location Sound: Wee Lun
Boom operator: Sim Jian Xiong
Actor 1: Wang Zilong
Actor 2: Johnny
After we are assigned to our own roles, the producer, directors, art director
and assistant director has to get ready and plan out the storyboards. Here are
the storyboards planned.
On the 29th of September, the production for the necessary footage takes place. Here are the footage and sound recording during the production:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ms-1q2kYjER4JjIQgyhRbcRh58idh19F?usp=sharing
Video Editing
After the shoot, I went a head and start to compile the footage and recorded sounds together, cutting off unnecessary parts and choose which clip to be included in the video. Here are the raw, unadulterated result:
Here is the link to the video in case the video player doesn't work:
https://youtu.be/WvzLWIplNsE
Then I start to do further editing to the footage. I did some color correction, some transition effects where I think is appropriate, captions (as requested by Mr. Martin) and add music to the compiled footage.
Final Video Production Submission
Here is the link to the video in case the video player doesn't work:
https://youtu.be/rQV-z5lUq70
PROJECT 2B - TIKTOK VIDEO TREATMENT
For the second part of project 2, we are tasked with shooting our own
Tiktok/Instagram Shorts video. There are no given themes for this and we
have the freedom to create a video that represents us as a whole.
Idealization
The first step to doing this Tiktok video is to plan them all out first. Here are the slides of the plan for the Tiktok video treatment:
My idea for this Tiktok is to create a sort of satire cooking Tiktok of me making food and following recipes I found on the internet. As an inspiration, I pick one of Tiktoker I followed name Blake Jennings who created a series called Depression Meal Mondays where he 'cooks' various depress meals while getting insulted by himself.
The videos usually shows him doing stuff while there is a voice over going on and talking about what he is doing.
Another inspiration is from another Tiktoker name Andy Cooks and I plan to do a similar setup as him for my Tiktok Video.
Video Shooting
One major challenge of this shooting is that I do not know what the setup looks like as the setting I shoot in is in a place that I have never visit before. Only until the day of the shooting when I get to see how the setup is like so I have to think on my feet and figure out where to place my tripod and camera. I borrowed a friend's phone for shooting better quality video.
This is how some of the set up is like:
As this video is going to be voice overs, there are no concerns regarding environmental sounds and noises make by sudden interruption.
Video Editing
After shooting all the required clip, the next stage of this project is to edit the video. I first have to add in the clips into a more cohesive order while trying to keep the video around a minute short. This proves to be quite challenging as the clips are hours long.
After I was able to edit the video to be more cohesive and around a minute short. Then, I start to write the dialogue for the voice over by testing out the dialogue by speaking the line while playing the silent video clip and then record the lines using a build-in microphone of my headphone.
After recording all the line, I edit the sound recording in Adobe Audition
and denoise the background humming and then compile the sound together with
the video.
For the background music, I went to this
website to download copyright free
music and use two songs from it:
Metal (Dark Matter) by Grohl
Sunset Vibes (Lo-Fi/Chillhop) by 23843807
After adding the background music to my video, I add some small graphics into the video such as text and images and make some color corrections.
Final Tiktok/Instagram Treatment Submission
Fig 6. Final Tiktok Treatment Submission (28/10/2023 Week 9)@taylors0363436 Making Casserole for the first time... fyp #casserole #cooking #stressedout #taylors #project #private #yellow #chill
♬ original sound - taylors0363436 - taylors0363436
REFLECTION
This whole project has been quite an experience, especially during the shoot of being an actor (or actress in this case) as no one else wants to take the role. I feel somewhat weird looking at myself and see myself on screen but eventually I got used to it due to the number of edits I did. The Tiktok treatment task also helps me get use to hearing my own voice through a device. For the first time, the recorded sound of my voice no longer sound weird to me. It actually sounds natural. This is quite a shock to me but this experience as whole will definitely make any future project involving my voice a lot easier.
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