17. captured footage
Monday, April 6, 2009
Yesterday, I went to LokLok’s house to film the MSN scenes at her house, as well as a few sound effects she might need, such as the silence of her study room, the sound of typing, and the sound of clicking. The experiences of Friday taught us that a lot of time was needed to film a single shot, and we set aside 4 hours to film. The capturing was done at lunch, and while capturing, we discussed the footage we had. Despite the fact that we filmed everything a few times in case of error, (I wouldn’t want to have to take the one and a half hour journey back to her house) after capturing today we realized that the quality of the filming wasn’t that good – the camera was shaky, or the computer screen was obscured by my hair, etc. This was because three people were required to film this scene: me, receiving the file, LokLok sending the file, and someone else as a cameraman. LokLok’s dad was used as a cameraman. However, because the instructions left to him were vague, the scene was not recorded exactly as desired. We decided to choose the best out of all the attempts, and rerecord the scene over Easter if we have time later on. If we are to rerecord this, a reminder to ourselves would be to use someone else to send the file, leaving LokLok free to be the cameraman as she is the film student, thus improving the quality of the footage. In regard to my own video, I am satisfied with the footage I have, but I am still looking to rerecord the beginning scene, simply because I am wearing my school uniform. The angle at which the film was shot makes the logo in front of the polo shirt very obvious, causing the scene to look inauthentic and very unprofessional. Although ‘professional’ is not the feel I want to create for the character at the beginning scene, the school uniform makes the recording look altogether too amateurish to portray how hard she is working to produce her album. Learning from this mistake, if I have time, I will rerecord this scene, but bring other clothes to make the scene feel more realistic. One other problem I had not previously considered: I am actually singing in the beginning scene. I had not thought about that before, but now that I do, I will have to come up with some kind of narration to put into the beginning to give me the excuse to extract the audio of that scene. During class, unwanted footage was cut, and the sounds recorded in LokLok’s house were synchronized with the video. I realized one mistake we made – recording everything onto one tape. That meant that we had to work on the same computer. However, at the end of the class, we exported the whole Final Cut project, with both of our videos in it, as a QuickTime movie, so that I can put the file onto another project on another computer, and, after cutting out LokLok’s section, have my video separately. We have compiled a new list of things we have to get done before this Thursday, mostly filming. For me, I have to find a teacher to act in my film (one that speaks Chinese), find a student to act in my film, capture, and, if I have time, rerecord my studio scene. At the same time, because I also have a part in Michele’s project, I have to make time on my schedule to work with her. I have a very busy film day tomorrow, as I will be working on three different film projects: mine, LokLok’s, and Michele’s.
Yesterday, I went to LokLok’s house to film the MSN scenes at her house, as well as a few sound effects she might need, such as the silence of her study room, the sound of typing, and the sound of clicking. The experiences of Friday taught us that a lot of time was needed to film a single shot, and we set aside 4 hours to film. The capturing was done at lunch, and while capturing, we discussed the footage we had. Despite the fact that we filmed everything a few times in case of error, (I wouldn’t want to have to take the one and a half hour journey back to her house) after capturing today we realized that the quality of the filming wasn’t that good – the camera was shaky, or the computer screen was obscured by my hair, etc. This was because three people were required to film this scene: me, receiving the file, LokLok sending the file, and someone else as a cameraman. LokLok’s dad was used as a cameraman. However, because the instructions left to him were vague, the scene was not recorded exactly as desired. We decided to choose the best out of all the attempts, and rerecord the scene over Easter if we have time later on. If we are to rerecord this, a reminder to ourselves would be to use someone else to send the file, leaving LokLok free to be the cameraman as she is the film student, thus improving the quality of the footage. In regard to my own video, I am satisfied with the footage I have, but I am still looking to rerecord the beginning scene, simply because I am wearing my school uniform. The angle at which the film was shot makes the logo in front of the polo shirt very obvious, causing the scene to look inauthentic and very unprofessional. Although ‘professional’ is not the feel I want to create for the character at the beginning scene, the school uniform makes the recording look altogether too amateurish to portray how hard she is working to produce her album. Learning from this mistake, if I have time, I will rerecord this scene, but bring other clothes to make the scene feel more realistic. One other problem I had not previously considered: I am actually singing in the beginning scene. I had not thought about that before, but now that I do, I will have to come up with some kind of narration to put into the beginning to give me the excuse to extract the audio of that scene. During class, unwanted footage was cut, and the sounds recorded in LokLok’s house were synchronized with the video. I realized one mistake we made – recording everything onto one tape. That meant that we had to work on the same computer. However, at the end of the class, we exported the whole Final Cut project, with both of our videos in it, as a QuickTime movie, so that I can put the file onto another project on another computer, and, after cutting out LokLok’s section, have my video separately. We have compiled a new list of things we have to get done before this Thursday, mostly filming. For me, I have to find a teacher to act in my film (one that speaks Chinese), find a student to act in my film, capture, and, if I have time, rerecord my studio scene. At the same time, because I also have a part in Michele’s project, I have to make time on my schedule to work with her. I have a very busy film day tomorrow, as I will be working on three different film projects: mine, LokLok’s, and Michele’s.
張貼者：chariskong 於
凌晨3:25
1 個意見:
An insightful look into your working process and the problems you are encountering. Some thoughts:
1) As film students, you should ALWAYS pay attention to how you frame your shot. Even if you are just filming a computer screen, there are ways to do this in a visually engaging way. Remember your rule of thirds.
2) You now have a better idea of how labour-intensive filming is. Make sure you get everything right BEFORE you shoot so you won't have to go back to do pick ups! Think about your costumes, what props you need during your pre-production planning stage.
3)If you want to work on 2 computers, you should transfer the raw footage over (ask me how in class) and not transfer as a quicktime movie -- you won't be able to edit it in FCP if you do that.
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