3/10/19 - 17/10/19 (Week 6- Week 8)
Video and Sound Production
Project 2
INSTRUCTIONS
PROJECT 2
October 3rd, 2019The objective of this project is to recreate a Thai soap commercial in a team. There were different versions of the advertisement, although we were assigned to recreate the horror scene of the commercial, leaving the romantic scene for the other group. The original film from Youtube is attached below:
Members and roles
Producer: Joe
Director: Ryan
Assistant Director: Ava
Art Director: Zain
Assistant Art Director: Arletta
Camera Operator: Ehti
Assistant camera: Melvin
Lighting Crew: Jason and Xiaoting
Sound Recording: Alex and Nizam
Actor 1: Qaezie
Actor 2: Yi Xiang
Storyboard
The storyboard acts as a guideline for all the shots we were supposed to setup and shoot. The following is provided by Mr. Martin.
Setting up
The first step into the shooting process is to decide on the location in which the shooting will be held on. A design studio (D1.13) was chosen due to its convenience of a large space and light control which is crucial especially for the film recording in the evening while sunlight is out.
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| Settings and role plan. |
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| Continuation of the planning. |
It was a little of a rough start as each of the members are all in their learning phase, especially myself. Although, I knew I had to kick start and help plan for my team as the position of the producer. I begin by studying the settings according to the original film and sketched them out in a notebook. It was helpful to visualize how to prepare the setup for each scene. The shot orders were taken care of by the directors, while the props by the art directors. We carried lots of things around and took some time to prepare the settings and it all worked out in the end.
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| Discussion on the shots and the settings. |
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| Setting up the camera and the audio. |
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| Make up for the actor (by the Assistant Art Director, Arletta). |
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| Setting up the blue ambient lighting. |
Shooting
After setting up, we quickly moved to the shooting phase and tested everything we needed to. Lighting, audio, camera, slates, all were ready and good to go. Each member performed well in this project.
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| Camera setup and positioning. |
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| Testing phase for all roles. |
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| Shooting for shot no.4. |
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| Preparing for shot no.15. |
Progress
After the team shooting sessions, we all gathered separate video and audio files for individual edits. The editing is done in Adobe Premiere Pro. Choosing the right video file and "takes" for each shots is crucial to the beginning process as multiple takes were recorded for a single shot.
Surprisingly the editing part is almost as long as the shooting itself. Finding the right sound effect from free sources is the most complicated and time-consuming part of the editing process, but I was able to pull it through in the end. Here's the final edit of the recreated commercial:
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