Video & Sound Production - Exercises

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21/04/25 - 27/07/25 ( Week 1 - Week 14 )
Carren Yeliandi / 0376990
Video & Sound Production  / Bachelors of Design in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Exercises

TABLE OF CONTENTS





Lectures

LECTURE 1

Shots :
  • Establishing Shot : A shot that sets the location.
  • Extreme Wide Shot: Creating a scene where the character appears small against their location
  • Wide / Long Shot (WS / LS): Balancing the character within their environment.
  • Full Shots: Full bodies shot while allowing some features of the scenery..
  • Medium Wide Shot : From the knees up, split a full shot and a medium shot.
  • Cowboy Shot : Framing around mid-thigh usually for showing action and weapons.
  • Medium Shot (MS): A shot that emphasize the character details while still capturing their surroundings.
  • Medium Close-Up (MCU): Captures body language.
  • Close-Up (CU): Focusing on the character emotions and reactions.
  • Extreme Close-Up (ECU): Zooms in on details that are usually hard to see.


Composition :
  • Rule of Thirds: Aligning subjects along an imaginary 3x3 grid lines to create a visually pleasing shot.
  • Balance & Symmetry: Breaking the rules of thirds to achieve full symmetry to draw viewer's eyes to specific place.
  • Leading Lines : Actual or imaginary lines that directs the viewers' eyes to specific object or subject.
  • Eye-Level Framing: Positioning the audience at eye-level with the character to create empathy.
  • Depth of Field : Creating a zone of focus.


LECTURE 2

The Three Act Structure :
  • Act 1 (The setup) = Establishing the protagonist world along with the inciting incident which gives the story a problem that must be solved.
  • Act 2 (The confrontation) = The longest act out of all 3 where the protagonist faces a series of obstacles and challenges separated into two point where the protagonist will show progress in the first point and faces complication in the second usually ending the act with a significant setback that causes the protagonist to rethink.
  • Act 3 (The resolution) = The protagonist attempting to overcome the final challenge until the story reaches it's climax, the most tense and dramatic moment of the story. Until finally the story reaches the resolution (denouement) tying all loose ends and concluding the protagonist journey.

LECTURE 3

Storyboard : 
    a visual representation of a film, animation, or video game, much like a comic strip used to plan shots, understand the narrative flow, and to communicate ideas to the production team with details like camera angles, character movements, dialogue, and even notes about special effects or sound.


LECTURE 4

Production Stages :
  • Pre-Production = The planning stage where all the necessary preparations are made before filming begins (Script, Storyboards, Actors, Locations, Designs and Crew Members).
  • Production = The actual filming takes place. The production team will work together to capture all the footage needed for the film, using the plans and preparations made during pre-production as a guide. 
  • Post-Production = The footage is edited and assembled into a final product (Cutting and Arranging Scenes, Music and Sound Effects, Color Grading, and Visual Effects). 

LECTURE 5

Mise en Scene (Placing on Stage) =  The overall visual arrangement and presentation of a scene. 
Key components : 
  • Physical Space: The location where the story took place.
  • Time Period: The era and time the story are set in.
  • Props and Objects: Items that potentially have hidden meanings
  • Costume and Makeup: Characters appearance to reflect their personality.
  • Lighting: The use of light to effect the mood.
  • Composition and Framing: Elements placing to impact the audience perception.
  • Performance and Acting: Actor's ability to bring the story to life.
  • Color Palette: Colors suitable for the theme of the movie.
  • Spatial Relationships: Characters and objects placement to give hierarchy.


LECTURE 6

Color Theory -> A creative discipline examining how color elicits emotional effects in visual art.

Color Wheel -> A visual tool mapping hues in a circle, used to create harmonious color schemes like complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic. Types of Schemes: 
  • Monochromatic: Various tones of a single color.
  • Analogous: Neighboring colors on the wheel.
  • Complementary: Opposing colors on the wheel.
  • Triadic: Three evenly spaced colors forming a triangle like shape on the color wheel.
  • Tetradic: Two pairs of complementary colors.


Instructions
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A. Doritos and Mints Commercial Arrangement

    In our first offline class, we were introduced to Adobe Premiere Pro and were tasked to arrange the scrambled Doritos and Mint  Commercial. 

    The mint one is simple enough as it is sorted nicely and was named based on the scene arrangement. So all I had to do was just put everything in based on the name.

Fig 1. Mints Arrangement (Week 1 | 23/04/25)


    The Doritos one was a bit tricky since it was more jumbled. I tried to arranged it by myself by watching all of the clips and deciding which parts should go first but it didn't go so well and I had to search for the original video. In which I realized that I only had around 3 clips that needs to be rearrange and after that I'm done with this exercise.

Fig 2. Doritos Arrangement (Week 1 | 23/04/25)



B. Shooting Exercise 1

In our second week, we were given another exercise  of camera placement shooting. Here's the list :
  1. Low angle wide shot
  2. Eye level medium wide shot
  3. Frontal medium shot
  4. Side angle medium shot
  5. 3/4 angle medium close up shot
  6. Frontal medium close up shot
  7. Close up shot
  8. Extreme close up shot
    Here my friends took mine and I took theirs. After the shooting was finished, we asked our lecturer for feedback and learned that we had too much head space in the video and had to retake most of it but overall it was not hard at all. After the shooting was finished I compiled all of them into one with description of each shot in their corresponding shots.

Fig 3. Shooting Exercise 1 Arrangement (Week 2 | 01/05/25)



C. Lalin Editing Practice

    We were given another task of arranging the remake of Lalin. The files were already given through G-Drive and the original remake video is also there for reference.

    I just needed to crop the beginning and end of each clips and arrange them accordingly. I then added the chat bubbles and used effect controls to give an opacity animation to create the chat disappearing animation.

Fig 4. Lalin Editing Process (Week 3 | 06/05/25)



D. Shooting Exercise 2

    This week, we were given another task for another shooting. This time we were also given a reference along with the list of shot :
  1. Deep shot
  2. Tight M.S. side angle
  3. Over shoulder shot 1
  4. Over shoulder shot 2 (Reverse over shoulder shot)
  5. Tight medium shot
    The video was mostly taken by my friends with the other groupmate being models for the video. Then one of my other group mate assembled all the shots into one video along with their corresponding shots' name.



E. Act Breakdown

    This week we were tasked to create an act breakdown of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and "Lalin".

I. Everything Everywhere All At Once :
Questions :
1. Which part is act 1, act 2, act 3 respectively? Describe each act with ONE paragraph only. 
Act 1 ->
Everything in Evelyn's life is falling apart making her consumed by stress. During an audit visit, she was suddenly abducted by a man, who revealed himself as another version of her husband, asking her help save the multiverse against the villain named Jubo Tupaki.

Act 2 ->
Evelyn began traveling across the multiverse all the while absorbing each versions of her abilities trying her best despite the confusion to save the multiverse, becoming more overwhelmed each time she jumped universe. However it all but destroyed her when she realized that the villain Jobu Tupaki was another version of her daughter all along, causing her to lose all hope and starts to embrace Jubo's The Everything Bagel.

Act 3 ->
Evelyn, helped by Raymond, began to realize that small acts of love can heal even the most broken. Using her newly obtained powers, she heal those around her instead of hurting. This realization was what in the end enabled her to save Jubo for the void and caused her to be at peace at where she is at in her current world with her family. 


2. What is the inciting incident in the movie? 
When she was suddenly abducted during an audit visit and was told to save the multiverse from Jubo.

3. What is the midpoint scene in the movie? 
When Evelyn started to realized Jobu Tupaki's real identity as her daughter Joy.

4. What is the Climax scene in the movie? 
When she started to use her powers to heal instead of hurting others.

5.What is the theme of the movie?
The theme of this movie is Kindness. How small acts of kindness and love can heal even those who seems truly broken like Jobu as well as brings peace to Evelyns' seemingly chaotic life.

II. Lalin :
Questions :
1. Which part is act 1, act 2, act 3 respectively? Describe each act with ONE paragraph only. 
Act 1 -> 
A girl named Lalin was bullied in high school due to severe acne breakout. She went to another country for a new beginning and started posting heavily edited pictures of herself online where she slowly started becoming famous for her beauty. She was  then texted by an unknown man offering her work.

Act 2 ->
Lalin and the unknown man started to constantly chat everyday and slowly Lalin began liking chatting with him. However everything starts to crack when the man asked Lalin to meet face to face when he was visiting her country. As the man was waiting for Lalin in the cafe, Lalin was hiding in the woman's bathroom and began to face her insecurities.

Act 3 ->
The man finally left the cafe and Lalin went out of the restroom only to see the book he left on the table and began to read it only to realize it was about them and how he has always loved her despite her insecurities. She chased after him and he smiled at her.

2. What is the inciting incident in the movie? 
When Lalin was texted by an unknown man offering her work.

3. What is the midpoint scene in the movie? 
When the man asked to meet up with Lalin face to face in a cafe as he was visiting her country.

4. What is the Climax scene in the movie? 
When Lalin was reading the book that the man left behind and realized who the man was.

5.What is the theme of the movie?
The theme is Insecurities and how despite Lalin's insecurities, the man cared for her because she is beautiful in the inside, not caring how she looks on the outside.


F. Storyboard 
 
   Around week 5, we learned about storyboard and were tasked to create a storyboard based on a VFX video that was already disassembled into shots and scenes and just needed to be made into a storyboard.
Fig 5. Storyboard Page 1 and 2 (Week 15 | 27/07/25)

Fig 6. Storyboard Page 3 (Week 15 | 27/07/25)

G. VFX Exercise

    To help our final project, we had one last exercise. After being shown an example and tutorial video, I began to follow all the steps from using the roto brush tool and using key light effect to erase a green screen. Arranging all of the shots to make the VFX video shown in the tutorial. I also added an adjustment layer for color grading as well as some other effect like sound effect and red screen to create a Minecraft like impact effect.

Fig 7. VFX Exercise Process (Week 9 | 16/06/25)




H. Quiz Report

I had to redo all of them due to the lack of documentation of the quizzes that I did. 

Fig 8. Quiz Report (Week 15 | 28/07/25)

Week 1 - I mixed up wide shot with extreme wide shot hence the loss of 2 points

Week 2 - I had the wrong idea about the inciting incident, I thought it was only to establish the world but it turns out to also establish the problem, causing me to once again lose 2 points.

Week 3 - All Good

Week 4 - I was debating on pre-production and production for the last question but went with pre-production because I thought it was more challenging to prepare for production which proved to be the wrong assumption.

Week 5 - All Good

Week 6 - I was a bit surprised but it turns out it's because the correct answer was not set hence no right answer.

Reflections

    There were a lot of exercises in this module which was very helpful in my opinion, I just dislike the documenting process since I don't really know what to document for the exercise and the amount of exercise didn't really help. Overall the exercises were simple to do and was a nice introduction to each tasks we had to do while also helping us prepare for the projects that we had to do. Also a very helpful tasks without the burden of complexity as the exercises were prepared throughly.

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