Video and Sound Production / Final Project

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28.05.2022 - 10.07.2022 (Week 9 - Week 15)
Abigail Kartika Darmowinoto / 0350525 / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Video and Sound Production / Taylor's University 
Final Project: 30" Stop Motion Video / 60" Visual Effects Video

LIST

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LECTURES
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WEEK 9 (23/05/2022) : Color Correction

We were given some supplementary videos to watch:

1. "COLOR CORRECT Like A PRO" by Matti Haapoja - https://youtu.be/tMtM4fyGH70
fig 1.1, video 1, Week 9 (23/05/2022)

2. "Color Grading in Premiere Pro CC - Get Pro Film Look" by Color Grading Central -https://youtu.be/RvFCnVRcT3Q
fig 1.2, video 2, Week 9 (23/05/2022)

3."Premiere Pro: Color Correction vs Color Grading" by Kyler Holland -https://youtu.be/hrjX7ZuQv0A
fig 1.3, video 3, Week 9 (23/05/2022)

What's color correction, what's color grading?
Color correction : correcting the brightness, contrast, saturation
Color grading : applying filter, adding color hues.

Cold and warm use: temperature
fig 1.4, video 1, Week 9 (23/05/2022)

WEEK 12 (13/06/2022) : STOP MOTION BRIEF

“There is an energy with stop-motion that you can’t even describe. It’s got to do with giving things life, and I guess that’s why I wanted to get into animation originally.”
- Tim Burton. Director of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Corpse Bride (2005) and Frankenweenie (2012).

SHOOTING:
  1. Pre-production
  2. Prepare storyboard
  3. Clock every shots
  4. Calculating the Frames Needed (8-10 FPS)
  5. Start collecting sound clips
  6. Prepare materials and build the puppets and background
  7. Set camera on tripod.
  8. Use manual exposure & focus.
  9. Shoot during the day, but use artificial lighting.
        WITH DSLR
  • Select jpeg L/Fine
  • Resolution: 5K-6K
  • DSLR photo default aspect ratio: 3:2
  • Change it to 16:9
        WITH PHONE
  • Shooting Stop motion with Phone
  • Use app to export video for editing
  • Separate sequences in different folders
EDITING:

ADOBE PREMIER PRO
  • Creating new project, choose this setting(1920x1080 24/25 frame per second):
  • Before you import the photos seq please change the setting:
    • Premiere Pro CC--> preferences--->Timeline
    • Change "Still Image Default Duration": 5; Seconds to 2-5 Frames (Trial & error, change it first to 2 frames and play it; if movement is too fast, try 3 frames, and so on)
    • After decided the speed (2-5 frames per second), import all folders into Premiere Pro.
    • Toggle on “Insert and overwrite sequences as nests or individual clips”
  • If you have 10 photo seq, create 10 NEW SEQUENCE for each of them.
  • Create a new 1920x1080 Sequence for editing, rename it.
  • Now start editing! You can resize the imported seq(5k-6k) to 1920 (~2k), so you can choose to use W.S or C.U..
AFTER EFFECTS
  • Before import footage, change the import setting under “ Preference”: 24 frames per second.
  • Import footage:
    • Multiple files
    • Check 3 boxes
  • Adjust speed:
    • Right click Layer in composition →
    • Time → Time Stretch
  • Do remember to create ONE composition for editing (1920x1080, 24 frame. duration make sure long enough to cover whole video)

PRACTICAL
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WEEK 7 (09/05/2022)

We were asked to download some footages.

fig 2.1, downloading footages, Week 7 (09/05/2022) 

These is the original video of Ake Demo:
fig 2.2, original, source; https://youtu.be/kpE2vUYtcvo, Week 7 (09/05/2022) 

WEEK 9 (23/05/2022) : Color Correction

From the previous class, we were tasked to do the "aka demo emo," then, in this week, we were tasked to do the color correction.

fig 2.3, color correction, Week 9 (23/05/2022) 

Using the lumetri scopes, I study the color and try to adjust from the lumetri color. I noticed that the sequence I want to follow, all RGB points are located in 80-90.

 
fig 2.4, downloading footages, Week 9 (23/05/2022) 

Thus, this is my final for week 5 and 9 practical:

fig 2.5, final, Week 9 (23/05/2022) 

INSTRUCTIONS
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fig 3.1 Module Information Booklet of Video and Sound Production
  • WEEK 1
    • STOP MOTION
✅ Watch stop motion shorts 
✅ Shortlist 3 stop motion shorts
✅ Explain reasons being chosen (style, art direction, character design etc)
    • VISUAL EFFECTS
✅ Watch Visual Effects short video.
✅ Shortlist 3 Visual Effects short video.
✅ Explain reasons being chosen (style, art direction, character design etc)
  • WEEK 6
✅ Edit week 5 footages, sync it with sound.
✅ Decide final project medium, visual effects video or stop motion (animation stream do stop motion), define the theme and story outline.
  • WEEK 8
✅ Final project proposal.
  • WEEK 12
✅ Schedule final project shoot and progression in below spreadsheet:
✅ Stop-motion briefing

EXERCISES

WEEK 1 - TASK A: Stop Motion and Visual Effects
Mr. Martin tasked us to watch some stop motion videos. I always thought stop motions are boring, until I watched these;
fig 4.1, stop motion1, Week 1 (28/03/2022)

It's a stop motion made by PES. I choose this because of the concept, it brings about arcade game, old game for example like Pac-man, Frog Jump, etc, and the style used really suited the stop motion video, oldish. The art direction here is very clear, they wanted to show about arcade games using stop motions. I like they way the concept designed, using real life items which make it looked like a traditional stop motion. What surprised me and give me the Woah is the way of the flow it happened. The audio did really well to support the stop motion videos. Lastly, the motion looked so flawless and flowed continuously, which won't happen at every stop motion.
fig 4.2, stop motion 2, Week 1 (28/03/2022)

The purpose (art direction) of the video here is very clear; about climates. It's to urge viewer to stop plastic pollutions, especially in water; sea. Again like the previous one, the artist created the stop motion video using items, probably hand crafted. The style looked traditional and semi realistic, but then the motion is really flowed and that's what makes it looked so good. I really like the color board, using vibrant color to describe the environment, and bland colors to describe the bad things, like the plastic trashes, humans, boats.
fig 4.3, stop motion 3, Week 1 (28/03/2022)

The creator used a low-cost item; clays. But then, the creator did an amazing work of it, and it was his first time! I'm very amazed with it. I like the character, look so cute, and the animation flow support the characteristic of the character to be more developed. Soft and slow, which become the art direction. The audio sound did suit well with the stop motion video, also the traditional style suits well with it. 

WEEK 1 - TASK B: Visual Effects
To be honest, I don't really understand what it means about visual effects, so I searched it on Google.
fig 4.4, visual effects, Week 1 (28/03/2022)

"Ohh, they're the one that usually appeared on Sci-Fi movies," said my mind. Thus, I began to searched some visual effects example on YouTube. 

fig 4.5, visual effects 1, Week 1 (28/03/2022)

So, the reason I chose this is because I've already followed an instagram famous content creator "Lights are Off" who is a 3d visual artist for a while. I've just realize that this's also one of an example of visual effects. As far as I know, it's a short 3D motion graphics video about horror and various kinds of fears that are happening in the current trend. The art direction is about horror and fear. This's one the creator's main character, much like a cat, but the character design was made with a simple character form, whilst able to bring fear to the audience.  The color used also a big impact in the whole video, the creator used less pigmented color, mostly with pale white and black. It's a simple and short thing but it can hit the audience is the reason that made me choose this work.
fig 4.6, visual effects 2, Week 1 (28/03/2022)

The first thing that came in thought about Visual Effects short video is this song. It's a collaboration of Coldplay and BTS and the concept is outer space. I chose this video because of the theme, style; it was my favorite theme, space. The art direction is quite clear also, it tells a story about galaxy population to show their break free about singing. The visual effects can be found are from the hologram styled person, 3D animations of other person than BTS and Coldplay member, and the nature effects. The character design used are spaced themed character, which make them looked sci-fi.
fig 4.7, visual effects 3, Week 1 (28/03/2022)

I chose this Visual Effect Video because I want to choose something other than MV like the other 2. The reason I chose this is because I like the art direction. It's like trying to tell a story about writer who's searching for ideas for her book. Then, suddenly her imaginations, which shown by Visual Effects came like a real thing. The color vibes look very cyber, as if it's in a digital world, shown by the fish color and the sky color which are very vibrant. The style used are advanced style, what I mean from advanced is the VFX creator creates the character looked somehow if it was real, not animation looking characters, these can be shown by the fish, tentacles.

WEEK 6 - Decide Final Project

✅ Define the theme(choose one):
        For the theme, I wanted to talk about people as social beings which need other people presence, more likely to be emotion themed.

✅ Watch lots of stop motions (online).
I watched some stop motions:
https://youtu.be/mCADVBp-Ry4
https://youtu.be/kA2XrXeHSRg

✅ Choose the type of stop motion: Clay? Paper cut-out? Lego? (https://www.nfi.edu/stop-motion-animation/)
✅ Write ONE paragraph of your story outline.
✅ Present 3 references.

I broke down my ideation in the proposal:
fig 4.8, proposal, Week 8 (22/05/2022)

Then, I create my storyboard:
fig 4.9, storyboarding, Week 9 (29/05/2022)

I started my shooting. I tested in a random item at first:


I understand the concept, I started to proceed in making the shooting. So, this is my first draft:

But then, the art direction is kinda different from the planned one, so I do a second reshoot, and I came out with these, with a total of 381 shots:
fig 4.13, second shoot, Week 12 (15/06/2022)
fig 4.14, second shoot quick preview, Week 12 (15/06/2022)

So, this is my first draft, which I think still very raw, because I haven't proceed in the editing the color and sound, but overall concept it'll look like this:
fig 4.15, draft 1 (rough ver.), Week 13 (20/06/2022)

Mr. Martin pointed out some things that needed but isn't there (Refer to Week 13 Feedbacks). Thus, I have to do a reshoot, which I did on Saturday Week 13 with a total of shots:
fig 4.16, third shooting, Week 13 (25/06/2022)

Finished the shooting and grouping, I proceed on downloading the files and compile them in AfterEffects. I planned to edit the color darker, to make the video feels darker.
fig 4.17, coloring, Week 13 (25/06/2022)

Then I proceed with color correction and adding BGM. This is the track I use.
fig 4.18, BGM music, source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DOmXCSJ-TI, Week 15 (04/07/2022)

So, this is the second draft of my shot:
fig 4.19, draft 2 (edited), Week 15 (04/07/2022)

Finally, after that, I add another last touch, and here's my final:
fig 4.20, final, Week 15 (10/07/2022)

FEEDBACKS

Week 9 (23/05/2022):
For the good part maybe use colorful or like magical, butterflies, those kind of thing, maybe.

Week 10 (30/05/2022):
  • Scene 1 character seems like not really struggling, maybe make him reach out to someone but rejected by people he reached. 
  • The last scene can have some kind of continuous with the people from scene 1, maybe for example, the kid give balloon to the character to help him, etc.
Week 13 (22/06/20):
  • Need to show the mc needs help, the kid wanted to help, but pull away by the adult.
  • Reshoot? yes.
Week 15 (07/07/2022):
  • Better compare to the 1st version

REFLECTION 

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