Week13 24/11/2015

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Week13 24/11/2015

This is the last week of video editing class and nearly end to finalise our final project.

My role in this week is also sound editor and final editing team.

My role is to put the chosen music into the correct place in the movie.  And chose the suitable part to show, for example chorus or from the beginning.



Also, Terence, Dino and I were the final editing team.  We were responsible in final editing.  We had to finalise the video and see were there any mistakes and adjusted the volume.

  
  

And we used Final Cut Pro to edit it.  We saw and chose the suitable clips.


Here is the cast and production list.






This is the end of our video editing final project.
We had fun in the process.  Hope it is a good production.

Week12 17/11/2015

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Week12 17/11/2015

In this week, I also focused on choosing suitable music for the movie.  In the movie, it's about time.  Therefore, I found some music about time.  The song that first came out from my mind is "The Scientist" by "Coldplay".
The lyrics which touch me is "Oh let's go back to the start".  This lyrics represented the same feeling of the main character who always wanted to travel back to the happiest time and got away from the difficulties.  He could always do that until he lost all of his memories.

In the scene which he lost his memory with his friend, I chose "See you again" which represented he did not see a friend for a long time.  The melody of it was sad and touching.  It could make the feeling of losing this friend was a very sad thing.

Also, we used music in every scenes when the main character started to lose his memory with other people.

In this week, I also focused on making the image of the actor. 

This is a mad look of him.


I put eye shadow under his eye big to pretend dark circle.


After that, it is a smart look when he traveled back. This made a big contrast with before.


For the image of time man, I decided to make a smart look for him also, as he is the time of master.


Although these are not very special skills, they matches the feeling and the scenes.

Week11 10/11/2015

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Week11 10/11/2015

In this week, I focused on designing Foley.
As a sound editor, I know it is good and essential to make sound effect in a movie to make it become more interesting.

I made 3 Foleys in the video.

Firstly, it was the knocking door sound. We recorded the sound of knocking the table and window to pretend the sound of it.


Secondly, we used a beat machine to made the sound of clock when Time Man came out.


Thirdly, we used the sound made from shackle to pretend the sound that the main character was finding the key from the pocket.

   

These are the foleys in the movie.

Week10 3/11/2015

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Week10 3/11/2015

In the last weekend, we went to Tuen Wan Harbor to shoot some of the shots.  I am the actress and the one who help imaging, so I had to help other actors and actress to choose their clothes and looks to match the characteristics of that actors and actress that said on the script.

Before the start of shooting, we have made the shot lost.  This may help us to make the shooting process faster as we will know what we should shot and do.

And here is the shot list that we prepared.

Shot Scence Description

1 25 5 Sitting area ,chorus ELS

2 26 5 Time freeze ELS

3 28 5 Boy (1) and calling others MS

4 29 5 Boy (1) and calling others LS

5 31 5 Time man existence POVof B, LS of time man

6 36 5 Time restores time, man gone, chorus move Pov of B, empty space

7 37 5 Time restores, chorus moves LS B and Chorus

9 39 5 Boy1(1) look around LS

8 38 5 Time restores ELS everyone

10 9 3 CMC Establish shot

11 17 5 Building Establish

12 18 5 Exit from CMC From door to sitting place

13 19 5 電話響(from gf) LS

14 20 5 聽電話(gf) MS ( Ask fd to have a drink)

15 21 5 收線 LS

16 22 5 想打電話(fd) CU of B

17 23 5 電話響(from fd) CU of phone

18 24 5 傾電話(fd) LS

19 27 5 Time freeze with leave/paper ECU

20 30 5 VO of Time Man CU of B

21 32 5 Passing Machine ECU

22 33 5 Drugs (Machine) ECU in B hands

23 34 5 Time restores ECU of of paper

24 35 5 Time restores CU of B


We followed the shot list to take shot on that day.
Here are our shooting photos.

    
    

Week9 27/10/2015

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Week9 27/10/2015

In this week, we did another commenting again about our film script.  After listening the comments that given by the professor, we discovered that our script is quite hard to film it.  It is because the meaning and story we are going to express is too psychological.  The event: forgetting, time reversing, regrets, happiness, are very hard to show them to the audiences easily.  We can just say," I am happy. Oh I forgot that!"  It works, but it is too boring and meaningless.  So we must use more and more editing and shooting skills to make this more interesting.

Because of this problem, we decided to form a "Part B", to illustrate that the main character is forgetting things.  The part b is to show the memories about that category happened before, and play them fast, with special sound effect, which is my duty to find it.  And turning the film from colourful to black and white.  Which means deleting.  And I have thinks of different events to add in part b, to make it more meaningful.

In this weekend, we will start to shoot the scenes again.

Week7-8 13/10/2015-20/10/2015

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Week7-8 13/10/2015-20/10/2015

This is a "reading week" of the lesson video editing.  In this week, our group started to talk about the script of the final project,

About our project, we are going to talk about "Time Machine".  It talks about a man who wanted to reverse to the time of happiness.

And in these two weeks, we separated our posts.  And I am the actress of the film, act as the girl friend of the main character.  Also, of the production team of the film, I am the sound editor and the one who help the actors and actress to make up.  This is the main post of me.  Although we separated our own post, we also helped each other.  For example, we will corporate with each other to design and write the script.  And I am the final person to tidy up the script in a better format with WriterDuet.

And for my post, I am the sound editor.  I started to find different music to match different scenes and sound effect to match different events in the film.  And also find a better way to record the sound.  Sometime, the sound equipment is not very good in quality, so we have to record the dialogue by using the V.O. lab in some cases.  Or I decided to put the recorder inside the clothes to record the sound.

And in the lesson of week8, we showed the professor our idea and script in WriterDuet.  She reminded us that we should use more showing, acting, than saying.  Otherwise it will be so bored and meaningless.

Week6 6/10/2015

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Week6 6/10/2015

This was the sixth lesson of having video editing.  We talked about final project.  There are lots of production roles.  Production roles explained pre-production, breakdown script writing and mini workshop.  In production roles, we have writer, director, director of photography, sound editor.  These are first stage.  In second stage, we have producer, assistant director, assistant editor, actor etc.  And all of them are important.

In pre-production, it breaks down story idea, pitch, script, storyboard, costing etc.  These are all production plan.

Another thing is, the professor reminded us that places, locations act like actor.  Sometime we need is a good location.  And different colour tone will have different effect in a movie.  For example, in the movie "The Shining".  Two girls's clothes were in blue and white, it's used to have a contrast between the blood red and them.  Also, Danny's red clothe represent that he is in danger, and have a contest between him and two girls.

About script writing. it is used to build block of your film.  If you want to write good script, first you should read more good script.  And when we are doing script writing, we should show the emoting by  showing it, but not telling.

I hope I can do a great job in my project.