Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Filming schedule

This is my filming schedule for the compenent one .  

SceneDate/TimeLocationPeoplePropsEquiptmentOther
1Monday 20/1/2025greg's officemaha kenzo gusde candra and actors for guardsDress Bike Weapons (knife bat etc) Fake id card and outfits (all BlackDrone camera mics boom arm

Monday, January 13, 2025

Classwork: editing practice

 This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but I worked with Maha to edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post. 


Why is continuity editing important?

Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space.


Different types of continuity edit 


  • Straight cut (cut)

  • Eyeline match 

  • Shot /reverse shot

  • Cutaway / Insert 

*Match cut


Footage

Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining the shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic. 

https://youtu.be/dZ2IH8KjRjE?feature=shared


My editing process

First we looked over the clips that our teacher had recorded for us then we decided the order of clips from when the actor was leaving the seat to leaving the room then uploading set clips to Cap Cut. We decided to use Cap Cut as it is free easy to use and has a bunch of templates for effects and transitions which really helped fulfil our creative visions. 


For the first edit we decided to use simplier cuts without any effects we used this as a rough guideline or a plan of how we are going to sync up orientate and time the cuts.


For our next edit we started to play around and experiment with diffrent effects with digital zooms and camera movements and trasitions.



Refection:
This helped me get a better understanding of video editing as I have rarely done it in the past. Overall it was a fun process and brought back memories of when I was a kid and we used to splice together random videos. I think this will help us be able to better edit our videos. As for challenges it was probably the connection as more than 20 people were all simultaniously downloading clips from a google drive which was stressful on the bandwidth. I think next time I wanna try using diffrent softwares and experimeting more adn hopefully create an apealing but unique style.

Scene recreation

This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. we did this as a group

Lesson Description: My teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre. Our chosen task was to recreate this scene from John Wick where he and the film's main antagonist conversed with each other engaging in a deal. 



Original scene:

Story board:

Recreated Scene:






Problems, How to solve them and What to do next time:


1) We do not have the proper camera equipment, so sometimes the camera movements are a bit unstable, making it look unprofessional. We could not solve this problem besides the least we could do was to get someone from our group to have stable hands when holding the camera. Next time we would be required to buy new equipment that would stabilize the camera when moving to create a better quality film for the audience and avoid shaking the camera.


2) The backlight when we were filming ruins the recreated scene as the original scene was in a dark gloomy weather. There was nothing we could do as we could not control the weather and we did not have enough time to find a new place to film. Next time we would need to take our time to decide which location would be suitable for the environment to match with the original film. Though the silhouetting of actors did make them seam a bit more menacing and mysterious


3) There were background noises from the area where we filmed which caused a disturbance in the audio every time the character was speaking even though we had a phone microphone near the voice of our actor. We solved this problem by muffling the audio from the video however this makes the character's voice low and unclear. Next time we would need to buy a proper microphone attached to our actors so their voices can be heard loud and clear. We also would need to clear out the area of our filming set to avoid unnecessary audio or disturbance from entering our film.


4) We had a problem with our cameraman due to his unprofessional conduct where he accidentally recorded the scenes in slow motion. Luckily we had a solution where the videos would be sped up to cover the mistake of our cameraman from the audience. However, this solution would not fully solve the problem as some of the scenes are still in slow motion to match the pace of the original audio. Next time we would probably have to switch our cameraman to someone else as this can prove to be a really dangerous conduct towards our final film.


REFLECTION:

Overall I found this task really amusing and fun as we recreated our favorite movies scenes without million dollar budgets but the tools and items around us. We constantly had to improvise props such as the cards out of paper and think on our feet. I think this also gives valuable experience on how to shoot our final video and acts as a nice warm up on the day to day of media studies.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Location Scout & Risk Assesment

 This is the risk assesment and location scout for the film opening it is primary shot in Candras house. It was by Candra and Maha 

Location

Address:

The street in front of Candra's house
Link to location

Scene:

bicycle scene 

Advantages of location:

not many vehicles in the location 

Disadvantages of Location:

  very dark during night-time 

Alternatives:

55. JL DANAU TONDANO

Risk Assessment

Risk:

Who is at risk:

How to avoid risk:

High,Medium,Low risk:

1. Injured

Candrabe carefulMedium

2. A lot of dogs

Gusde,Kenzo,Candra,Mahabe friendly to the dog and stay calmmedium

3. A lot of cow poop

Gusde,Kenzo,Maha,CandraBe careful and see our stepmedium


Location

Address:

Candras house

Scene:

Outside road day

Advantages of location:

Have a good place and silent

Disadvantages of Location:

bad road

Alternatives:

55. JL DANAU TONDANO

Risk Assessment

Risk:

Who is at risk:

How to avoid risk:

High, Medium, Low risk:

1. Bad quality

all groupfind good place and roadhigh

2. Injured

Candrabe careful high

3. Slipped

Candraneed to find a good spot and not wet soillow


Location

Address:

Candras house

Scene:

Gate day

Advantages of location:

Lot of space and view

Disadvantages of Location:

The gate is broken

Alternatives:

55. JL DANAU TONDANO

Risk Assessment

Risk:

Who is at risk:

How to avoid risk:

High, Medium, Low risk:

1. wound

Guard,gusde/Kenzobe carefulmedium

2. Dark can hit items

all groupuse flashlight or lightingmedium

3. Fall

all groupbe careful because lot of surgemedium


Location

Address:

Candras house

Scene:

Outside Garage

Advantages of location:

Silent and quiet

Disadvantages of Location:

Other people owned

Alternatives:

55. JL DANAU TONDANO

Risk Assessment

Risk:

Who is at risk:

How to avoid risk:

High, Medium, Low risk:

1. Get caught

all groupask permissionhigh

2. hit by a car

all groupcheck surroundinghigh

3. dog

all groupstay calmmedium

Reflection

Overall I'm excited to shoot in Candra's house as it provides a nice mix of open spaces and tradtional balinese house design and architechure though it is a bit far so getting there may be an issue. Next time we may try to find closer alternatives.


Classwork

 In this post I will give examples of the technical elements we have been learning in class. These will be very helpful when I am trying to add meaning to my film opening.   Made By Candra


Camera angle :

  1. Long shot

  2. Extreme long shot

  3. Medium shot

  4. Cowboy shot

  5. Close up

  6. Extreme close up

  7. POV

  8. Over the shoulder

  9. High angle

  10. Low angle

  11. Dutch angle

  12. Establishing shot


 Camera movements :

Fixed

Camera remains static

Calm, peace, normal

Push in

Camera moves slowly toward subject

Brings the audience closer, more involved, getting more serious. 

Pull out

Camera moves slowly away from subject

Takes audience away from the action, leaving a character. Detaching from subject

Pan 

Side to side, camera fixed

Reveal information, mirrors natural head movement of the audience. 

Tilt

Up and down, camera fixed

Same as pan, just a different direction

Dolly 

Camera moves around freely

More immersive, we are moving inside the subjects world, we feel part of the action

Tracking

Camera moves around on tracks

Similar to dolly, but smoother. 

Crane

 

Reveals the epic size of the setting, landscape. 

Handheld

Camera is shakey

Very natural, immersive. High energy

Zoom

Zoom 

Brings audience closer to budget. Draws our attention to something. 


crane







Sound 
 
 

Description

Effect

Diegetic sound

Sound that can be heard by the characters within the media text. 

Add a sense of realism. Reveal information to characters (and then audience)

Non diegetic sound

Sound that can only be heard by the audience.

Enhance meaning, create an emotional response in the audience

Trans diegetic sound 

Sound that transitions from one to the other. 

Creates a link between the audience and the world. More immersive

 




Edit :  

Continuity Editing

Non continuity editing 

  • Straight cut (cut)

  • Eyeline match 

  • Shot /reverse shot

  • Cutaway / Insert 


*Match cut

  • Cross cut (parallel cut)

  • Flash back

  • Flash forward

  • Jump cut 


*Match cut

Screen Test

 this are the candidates we test to play in our film intro project. Made by Candra



This was good , because we got to see wide choices of actors which have different skills and we had a hard time thinking on which actor should we choose to be in our movie opening .

We decided to chose Candra to play as the protagonist in our opening scene  , in the screen test video , because we have a good relationship with that person and he have many free time to play in our opening scene project .

and we chose Gusde as the mafia boss in our opening scene project , because Gusde is good at deepen emotions which makes it more realistic and Gusde have a lot of free time which we could use to record our opening scene project . 

Reflection:

I originally planned for the characters to be played by Candra and Maha and I think after this screen test were going to stick to that, as no one really had standout performances. In terms of the screen test it was not optimal as it was filmed live in class with little preperation and a lack of stage directions aswell the sample wasnt optimal for the people we were looking for. I think to Improve we want to create a more controlled setting with a proper script and a better selection of people.

Filming schedule

This is my filming schedule for the compenent one .    Scene Date/Time Location People Props Equiptment Other 1 Monday 20/1/2025 greg's ...