2015年2月14日星期六

Cinematography Evaluation-Casino Royale

Cinematography Evaluation:
Using only visual evidence in the provided sequence respond to the following: 
What types of shots are used to convey the intended message in this scene?
Long shots are mostly used in this scene to show the audience what kind of environment the character is in and what he is doing. Close up and extreme close up are also used when they are having conversation showing the characters’ emotions and how their emotions change, as well as the scene that the men are having a fight. 

How has framing been used to show or hide information to the audience; refer to specific elements and information.
Framing has been used to create an illusion to the audience that actors are punching or shooting when they are actually not. 
Describe how camera position has been used effectively? List some specific shots
This scene has been filmed mostly at a low angle in order to show the characters emotions. The scene when they are having a fight and punching each other, the camera position of filming that scene makes it look like they are actually punching. 


What type of camera movement takes place and how does it enhance or detract from the shot?
When the two men are fighting and they fall on the ground, the camera follows them, in which it moves from an extreme close up filming their heads to a long shot filming from a high position to a low position showing how they fall, so it makes the shot more realistic.   


Does the cinematographer make specific use of underexposure or overexposure to convey a message?
Yes,the cinematographer made the film back and white to convey messages. The office where James Bond is talking with another man is so dark that makes people feel they are not doing something good and it makes it feels more scary and dangerous.

2014年11月10日星期一

Evaluation

Part One: Discuss your feelings about the e-pub, poster and commentary task:

Are you satisfied with the final result?
I'm satisfied with the final result as I thought it turned out quite well in terms of the outlook.

2.  Did the e-pub require more/less time than you originally thought?
The e-pub required more time than I originally thought as the video I made in term 2 and 3 was not a story but a lyrics video so it's quite hard to find something to talk about and what Mr Powell asked me to do was to look for some information of 5SOS so while people are watching the video they can also read the informations like how 5sos was formed.

3. Would like to change any aspects of your final project (layout, links, images, video and audio content, colour scheme etc)?


4. If you could start the project again what would you do differently?
If I could start the project again, I would choose to make a story instead of a lyric video as there was not many thing to talk about especially when the band/singer has just debuted.

Part Two: Respond to each of the following dot points (using complete sentences or paragraphs). You should include as much detail as possible in your responses.

Discuss whether your e-pub and poster have turned out the way you pictured them?
I think they haven't turned out the way I pictured them as I used different backgrounds and it looked like a PowerPoint instead of a book.

2. Explain whether your e-pub and poster clearly depicts the style of your animation and describe some specific design principles that you have used to achieve this;
As my animation was not a story so it didn't really have a style so when I was making the iBook, I was trying to make the book prettier and the words and stuff is clear for people to read.

3. Describe any problems or technical difficulties you encountered while creating your director commentaries in GarageBand. These may include; sound or video issues, corrupt or missing files, difficulty using the iBooks Author or GarageBand software, problems importing/exporting files, etc;
I didn't really encounter difficulties, everything went quite smoothly except from looking for some useful informations that I thought people would like to know about 5sos. For the iBook author, as I used it before when I was doing my hospitality assignment, so I generally knew how to use it.

4. Did you have all of the necessary resources to complete your e-pub and poster or did you have to create new materials?
I think I did have all of the necessary resources.

5. List the steps you used to plan and develop your project;
Before I started making the iBook, I trimmed the video in to scenes and after that I put them in the iBook finally I started looking for the informations of the band and decorating the iBook.

6. Did you use content-lists, flowcharts or other documents during the planning process;
No I didn't use any of these as it's not that kind of big project that it is necessary to plan it.

7. Clarify any time-management issues you encountered during the creative process and describe the steps you took to improve in this area;
I think the time given for doing this project was enough that even though I spent quite lots of time looking for background and stuff, I finished making the iBook a week before the due day.

2014年9月17日星期三

Evaluation

Year 9 Creative Media Animation Project

Animation Unit: Self-reflection and project evaluation:

Discuss your feelings about the production task:
Are you satisfied with the final result?
I’m satisfied with the final result as I think the music video came out pretty well.
Did the animation process require more or less time than you originally thought?
The animation process required more time than I thought. While we were filming according to what we planned to do on our storyboard, we found some parts were quite hard to film so we changed our storyboard for a few times which took us more time.
If you could start the project again what would you do differently?
If I could start the project again, I think I would do more drawing instead of only writing or sticking the lyrics on a whiteboard or a wall. It would look more interesting
Discuss whether your final animation has turned out the way you imagined?
It had turned out the way I imagined.
Explain how your animation skills developed during the project (i.e. did you become more efficient?; did the quality of your animation improve?; did you have to use a variety of animation techniques? etc);
During the project, we were using the iStopmotion for filming. When we were filming the first part, wasn't that efficient as we wasn't that used to setting up the light and camera and it was a bit shaky, so we re-filmed the shaky bit when we nearly finished the whole thing and it looked much better than before.
Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the animation process. (These may include; technical difficulties, corrupt or missing files, difficulty using the editing software, problems exporting etc.)
Once we saved the file wrongly that we should have saved the file but then we exported it, so we had to film it again.
Explain if you made effective use of storyboards and scene planning/breakdown?
We did made good use of the storyboards that we filmed according to what we planned and whenever we found that the thing we planned wasn't that good, we changed the storyboard so it's more organised.
Describe any time-management issues you or your group came across during the project and describe the steps you took to improve in this area;
We managed the time quite well that we still have time to re-film and make the video looks better.
List any other software skills, animation techniques, tricks or shortcuts you have learned during the project.
We used iMovie to combine all scenes together, so I know how to use iMovie now.

2014年9月15日星期一

Definition of animation and stop-motion animation

Animation is the process of creating motion and shape change illusion by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. The illusion—as in motion pictures in general—is thought to rely on the phi phenomenon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion

2014年9月1日星期一

Project

As the two lessons when Mr Powell was away, we got all the filming done and we started editing the whole thing using imovie. And we finished the whole project today!

2014年8月12日星期二

Works we have got so far

We have been doing the project for one and a half term and we have finished filming scene 1 to scene 3 and scene 5 as well.
For scene 4, as we need a classroom for filming, so we are waiting for a day that there is no one using the classroom.
And after finish filming scene 4, we are going to use imovie to combine all of them together and put the music in to form a music video and we are done!!

Refilm

As we are nearly finish, we watched our whole music video and we found that there were some of the parts could be improved, so we re-filmed those parts for 2 lessons to make them look better.