Video & Sound Production - Exercises
VIDEO & SOUND PRODUCTION
25/08/20 - 08/09/20 / Week 1 - Week 3
Ibrahim Fazal Ahmad / 0337423
Video & Sound Production / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylors University / Exercises
WEEK 1: Today was my first face to face class with Mr Martin. We had a simple lecture about what we will be doing over this semester. We then had a look at examples of our upcoming assignments done by our seniors. After which we did a very simple exercise in Adobe Premiere Pro, we took a few segmented clips that were labelled and placed them in order on the timeline and then exported it. It was just to get a rough idea of how Premiere Pro works.
WEEK 2: For this weeks lecture, we learned about different types of shots/framing for taking videos. Though there are multiple, there are 4 vital ones that are almost always needed being:
- Wide shot
- Medium shot
- Medium close-up shot
- Close-up shot
The other 3, though not vital is still used when needed, being:
- Extreme wide shot
- Medium wide shot
- Extreme close-up shot
WEEK 3:
This week we learned about sounds in movies and entertainment. There is a mix of three elements for sound being: Speech, Sound Effects, and Music.
Speech: Dialogues or voice-over
Sound Effects: Ambience/Background noises
Music: Enhances the story.
INSTRUCTIONS
WEEK 1: For this weeks exercise, we had to do a very simple one of stitching a few clips together from an advertisement. This was just a simple introduction to Premiere Pro as we as are going to be using it very frequently in this class.
Here is the first exercise:
Figure 1: Video Editing Exercise 1
Figure 1.01: Premiere Pro
Figure 1.02: Video Editing Exercise 2
WEEK 2: This week, we have to show our understanding on the different types of shots during the shooting of videos and pictures. We did a quick exercise in class to understand the types of shots a little better. After which, we also had to do this exercise at home displaying our understanding of the different types of framing.
Types of Framing:
Figure 1.02: Types of Framing
WEEK 3: This week, we had to do another editing exercise by stitching together the clips from our seniors take on the short film "Lalin". It was a very interesting short film and was rather sad, but the shots and story were very captivating to watch. For this exercise, we were given a storyboard by Mr Martin along with clips of our seniors. The clips were not cut, as you could still hear the words "Action!" and "Cut!". This meant we had to cut the clips ourselves and edit the video together.
Figure 1.03: Premiere Pro
Here is my final edited video of "Lalin":
Figure 1.04: Lalin
REFLECTIONS:
WEEK 1: This was my first week back on campus after my entire first semester being online! It was definitely really exciting being able to finally be face to face with each other again, with precautions of course. I felt like it was much easier to pay attention and ask questions to Mr Martin during the course of the lesson, I definitely missed having physical classes a lot. An observation I made this week was that I could pay attention in class better when physically there! I have yet to make any findings though, maybe next week as this week was just the beginning.
WEEK 2: This week was also another physical class, we learned about the different types of framing in videography and cinematography. We had done this but rather briefly in semester 1 during our Illustration & Visual Narrative, therefore I felt a little bit more familiar in this topic. However, we learned about the framing in much more detail. One observation I made was that close-up shots are usually utilised when you really want to the audience to focus on an object or person. One finding I made was that the earliest film was from 1896 called "The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" which actually scared the audience as they believed it was a real train coming towards them!
WEEK 3: This week was our online session, we learned about the importance of sound and the different types of sound that are used within the industry. Sound is something I haven't really paid attention to, personally, however, after this week I realised there is a lot more to sound than what I had it credit for. As without sound, it becomes sometimes impossible to understand what is going on in a movie. However, you can listen to a play or skit on the radio without visuals proving the importance of sound. One observation I made was that many random and inanimate objects can be used for sound, I recall seeing a clip of a sound designer using celery to mimick a person's bones breaking. One finding I made was that most sound effects in movies are usually edited in.
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