Workshop Experiment

Lighting and Colour Editing Experiment

For this experiment I decided to put both experiments together. With the Lighting Experiment we learnt about the 3 point lighting, using the moving image studio we moved the lights and placed the lights around. This diagram is how our lights looked llike

For the colour editing the original film actually looked slightly different, I just changed the skin slightly by using After Effect. When in after effects I went into effects, clicked on Synthetic Aperture then dragged SA Color Finesse onto the the film then clicked Full Interface. Once in Full Interface I then clicked onto curves and moved the curves until I was satisfied with the effect I created.

Moving Image 6

Title: Quit Playing

Music Artist: U-Kiss

Source: Youtube

Honestly this music video as well as this song is about a girl who messes around with guys and there feelings. I pretty much had to research the english translation of the song to realised it was all about.

In this video what took my main interest of the film was mainly the use of lighting like in a few cut scenes like this one is based off 3 point lighting

Main source of light comes from the window.

The main lighting is from behind the car, lighting on the drivers side of the car but not directly on the side it actually looks like its angled so it doesn't directly hit the guy and the women in the car.

After Effects used to make a black and white scene have a colour stand out like in this scene it's used to bring out the red of the girls shorts.

Moving Image 5

Title: Back
Artist: INFINITE
Source: Youtube

The music video starts off with a girl who has been kidnapped by a gang, then the scene cuts to the to the group outside the hangout where the
















In this film my main interests was the way the lighting of the film there were scenes where the main source of lighting either came from a window or fire. I'm sure that a few of the lights had coloured gels on them cause of how the members of the group had a slight reddish/purple tint on there skin.

The lighting of the fire as well as light from the windows create a 2 point lighting effect since there is lighting shown through the opening in the wall. Then the scene cuts to the group dance but the lighting changes to 3 point lighting.

Throughout the film there were only a few scenes where the use of gel lights weren't used. In my opinion it did create a effect but in the close ups I wouldn't have used them but if I did I would have tried to diffuse the colour so that the light didn't completely colour there faces.

Moving Image 4

http://vimeo.com/35375393

Title: Numbers
Artist: Matias Caruso
Source: Vimeo

While watching the film I slowly got the story of the film a bit more, the story is about a young man with a special ability, he sees numbers floating above peoples heads. The young man doesn't understand the ability he has, but later on he meets a woman with a similar ability. But her ability is much more perfected compared to his and she helps him understand his power better.

When I first watched this film I instantly thought of Death Note with the numbers above peoples head that either count down or up. But unlike death note where if you possess the eyes of the Shinigami they see the amount of time a person has until they die, where else this film tells us that there are different reasons for the numbers besides seeing someone lifespan.

I later on found out how the artist of this film made the numbers appear above people heads by using Adobe After Effects. I actually don't know how to exactly explain it but with the help of Youtube videos I slowly got an understanding of the effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtc7WCIjGU



I think my favourite scene of the whole film was near the end when the woman tells the man about "reapers" who are people who can see the amount of days people have until they die, as soon as the time hits midnight there numbers go down. Her phone alarm then goes off showing the time is midnight, the man looks at her number to realise it changed from 30 to 29. This then shows us that he's in fact a reaper and is hurt to see how long her life span is.

Workshop Experiment

Audio Mixing

For class today we were learning about audio mixing which is where you add music to a video, this is an experiment that I used premiere and soundcloud. Soundcloud is where I got my music from, for music I needed it to be mainly instrumental so that it wouldn't clash with the talking from the film. With Premiere I learnt a new technique where I can make the music volume go down when the person is speaking without cutting the a music audio, by doing this the change of volume is a lot smoother. 

Audio Mixing Experiment

For this experiment I used my interview experiment film then add a different track and using the technique I learnt in the film. It actually made a huge improvement to the film compared to my other film where the music actually had the singers voice clash with the girl that I had to turn the volume down a lot of the time. But with audio mixing it made my film actually come across as more professional.

Workshop Experiment

Re-Cut Experiment

For a film experiment we had to download a film and then using premiere cut the film up and rearrange the each cut to the music of the film to our own liking. With mine I used the film Rippled from Vimeo, mainly because the video took my interest with the light painting techniques and the music worked well when the clips were cut up and placed in different parts of the film.