April 30th 2009
Today, we started watching everyone's finalized videos. I took notes about the comments that students made after watching certain videos, and also some of the areas they could have improved. There were a certain videos that I liked and some I disliked. One of the videos that I particularly liked as Lucas'. I thought his video was very professionally done, and creative. The video had a very dramatic effect to it, allowing the audience to feel more captured into the video. It was very epic, just like the commercials that are played in every DVD that you buy from stores. Overall, I thought his video was well created, though the only thing I didn't like about it was the dialogue, his voice did not match the video at all, and sometimes the background music covered up his voice, which made it particularly hard to hear and comprehend to the audience. Another video that I liked was Joanna's. It was also very well thought of and professionally made. She used effects that increased the dramatic effect within the video, and the font style and background music increased it even more. Overall, I thought her video was well made, though it might have been too descriptive, and some of those scenes were too fast, which was hard for us to grasp. Another thing I liked about her video was that the starting and ending of each scene followed the offbeat of the background music. One of the videos I disliked was Marcus' video. The background sounds were very loud, which covered the dialogue. It was very noisy, and it showed that he didn't use the microphone well because it also captured the background noise. I thought he chose the worst setting because it was on the 3rd floor, during break time, where it was the loudest area in the entire school. He also chose the worst time to film there because during break time, the area tends to be very loud because people play basketball, run around, talk, etc. Though the video was humorous, and it made everyone laugh. Another video that I didn't like was Michelle's one. It seemed like too much was going on at once, and it ended up making the video very messy. The message was quite clear, though the images and text that popped up seemed like too much. Overall, I liked the effects that she added in, though it was too confusing, because I couldn't really focus on anything because too much was happening at the same time. At the end of the lesson, there was no time to watch my video so I didn't hear any feedback yet, though I am still looking forward to hearing the comments. This lesson, I was able to watch many videos concerning Intellectual Property, and was also able to see how creative other classmates were. The comments and feedback that were given to other classmates were useful because I am now able to prevent some of the mistakes that they made from their videos.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Monday, 27 April 2009
Reflection 18th 2009
April 27th 2009 - Intellectual Property
This lesson, I carried on working on my 30 second video. My goal for this lesson was to complete editing the dialogue and create the banner on paint, showing the consequences of illegal camcording, the awards given to anyone that detects it and also what the government is doing to prevent it from happening. Firstly, I finalized what the text that was going to be included in the banner and double checked if there were any mistakes. After that, I went to the 7th floor and opened up a new paint page and tried out many different background colors that matched the theme of entire video. I chose to include white, black and red in the banner because based on the setting of the video, which is the cinema, there were colors that consists of black and red. I chose to make the background white in order to create contrast with the black and red text. After including the title and all of the text, I thought it would be more interesting if there was a picture somewhere in the banner. I went on google and searched an image of illegal camcording taking place in a cinema. I copied the image and pasted it onto the paint page I was working. I saved the image to a JPEG file, and I was quite frustrated because it got really pixelated and some of the words were not as clear as before. I went back to the macromedia room and imported the banner into my video. I lengthened it a little in order to give some time for the audience to read the text. I rewatched the entire video and thought that the banner was too informative, though I decided not to change it because it would have taken more time and the video was due this lesson. All I needed to do now was add in chinese subtitles and my video would be complete. I went on Babel Fish translation to translate some of the text, though much of the translated text did not make any sense. Luckily, Gao Lao Shi was there, I asked him how to translate the english text and he helped me type out the chinese subtitles. At first, I thought typing the subtitles were a bit tricky, but I got the hang of it later and it eventually got easier. After that, all I needed to do to finish my video was to create my credits, I included Ms.Wong, Mr.Chiang, Clare Pemberton and the music I used and also the picture that was included in my banner at the end. I re-watched the entire video and rendered all parts that needed rendering and finally exported the video into a quicktime file. I thought this lesson was very useful beause I finally managed to finish my video completely, even though the ending might be a bit boring, I found the outcome quick well done. Next lesson, we are going to start watching the finalized videos, I am quite excited because I wanted to hear the feedbacks and comments from my classmates and Ms. Wong to see what I could do to improve my video, and what are the pros and cons of it as well.
This lesson, I carried on working on my 30 second video. My goal for this lesson was to complete editing the dialogue and create the banner on paint, showing the consequences of illegal camcording, the awards given to anyone that detects it and also what the government is doing to prevent it from happening. Firstly, I finalized what the text that was going to be included in the banner and double checked if there were any mistakes. After that, I went to the 7th floor and opened up a new paint page and tried out many different background colors that matched the theme of entire video. I chose to include white, black and red in the banner because based on the setting of the video, which is the cinema, there were colors that consists of black and red. I chose to make the background white in order to create contrast with the black and red text. After including the title and all of the text, I thought it would be more interesting if there was a picture somewhere in the banner. I went on google and searched an image of illegal camcording taking place in a cinema. I copied the image and pasted it onto the paint page I was working. I saved the image to a JPEG file, and I was quite frustrated because it got really pixelated and some of the words were not as clear as before. I went back to the macromedia room and imported the banner into my video. I lengthened it a little in order to give some time for the audience to read the text. I rewatched the entire video and thought that the banner was too informative, though I decided not to change it because it would have taken more time and the video was due this lesson. All I needed to do now was add in chinese subtitles and my video would be complete. I went on Babel Fish translation to translate some of the text, though much of the translated text did not make any sense. Luckily, Gao Lao Shi was there, I asked him how to translate the english text and he helped me type out the chinese subtitles. At first, I thought typing the subtitles were a bit tricky, but I got the hang of it later and it eventually got easier. After that, all I needed to do to finish my video was to create my credits, I included Ms.Wong, Mr.Chiang, Clare Pemberton and the music I used and also the picture that was included in my banner at the end. I re-watched the entire video and rendered all parts that needed rendering and finally exported the video into a quicktime file. I thought this lesson was very useful beause I finally managed to finish my video completely, even though the ending might be a bit boring, I found the outcome quick well done. Next lesson, we are going to start watching the finalized videos, I am quite excited because I wanted to hear the feedbacks and comments from my classmates and Ms. Wong to see what I could do to improve my video, and what are the pros and cons of it as well.
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Film Reflection 17
April 23rd 2009 - Intellectual Property
This lesson, Clare and I started to continue editing Clare's video, because her's was still half completed. We managed to insert many of the images we took in Times Square onto final cut pro and changed all of their speed to 15 milliseconds. Clare's intellectual property is "copying and selling fake goods illegally", her idea of the video was to capture images of famous brands, such as "dior", "chanel", "anna sui",etc, and also capture pictures of fake goods in lady's street, Causeway bay. Her goal was to adjust the speed of the images to match the beat of the music, so the pictures would flash quickly showing real and fake goods together. After adjusting the speed of all the images allowing it match the beat of the music, Clare decided that she would not include a dialogue because she thought it was better without it, and also due to the lack of time left, we couldn't record her dialogue. After editing Clare's video, we edited my project. I was very pleased with my work and I thought I was almost done editing already, I only needed to add a banner, but due to the fact that the background color could not be changed, I decided to make an image instead, and insert it in to the video. Due to the fact that the jail scene wasn't captured very well, Clare and I decided to re-take the scene again, because it would only take a second to do. We went down to the auditorium, where there were bars that looks like that ones in jail. We took about 10 minutes to adjust the camera stand, because the bars were near the stairs, we couldn't adjust the camera stand to be straight, which made the camera slanted. After 10 minutes we decided that I would hold the camera instead, because the tripod could not stand straight on the stairs. Because the background was the auditorium, we needed something as the background. Clare and I found wooden planks on the floor and decided that they should be the background. Because the planks were not long enough, we took two and placed it together at the back of the scene. I recorded the scene and I was pretty satisfied with it. We captured the clip onto the computer, and I edited it so that it would be in the correct place in the video. When I re-watched it, I was quite angry because I saw a gap between the two wooden planks at the background, which showed a bit of the auditorium. Because of this, I decided to adjust the color of the scene and make it darker because I wanted to make the gap at the back less obvious. After making the scene darker, I thought the jail clip looked a lot better, and it also suited the atmosphere of the scene; dark, gloomy. After that, I went online and downloaded a sound effect of the jail door closing, I thought this could add on to the dark jail effect. I imported the sound effect into the video and adjusted the placement of it until it matched the jail scene. Clare and I tried to add subtitles to both of our video, but we failed to figure out how to do so. My goal for next lesson is to create an image about illegal camcording that included text about it, I would also need to edit my dialogue. I also need to add subtitles for my video. Overall, my video is nearly done, and I am quite satisfied with the outcome. I thought this lesson was very useful because my video is nearly completed! :)
This lesson, Clare and I started to continue editing Clare's video, because her's was still half completed. We managed to insert many of the images we took in Times Square onto final cut pro and changed all of their speed to 15 milliseconds. Clare's intellectual property is "copying and selling fake goods illegally", her idea of the video was to capture images of famous brands, such as "dior", "chanel", "anna sui",etc, and also capture pictures of fake goods in lady's street, Causeway bay. Her goal was to adjust the speed of the images to match the beat of the music, so the pictures would flash quickly showing real and fake goods together. After adjusting the speed of all the images allowing it match the beat of the music, Clare decided that she would not include a dialogue because she thought it was better without it, and also due to the lack of time left, we couldn't record her dialogue. After editing Clare's video, we edited my project. I was very pleased with my work and I thought I was almost done editing already, I only needed to add a banner, but due to the fact that the background color could not be changed, I decided to make an image instead, and insert it in to the video. Due to the fact that the jail scene wasn't captured very well, Clare and I decided to re-take the scene again, because it would only take a second to do. We went down to the auditorium, where there were bars that looks like that ones in jail. We took about 10 minutes to adjust the camera stand, because the bars were near the stairs, we couldn't adjust the camera stand to be straight, which made the camera slanted. After 10 minutes we decided that I would hold the camera instead, because the tripod could not stand straight on the stairs. Because the background was the auditorium, we needed something as the background. Clare and I found wooden planks on the floor and decided that they should be the background. Because the planks were not long enough, we took two and placed it together at the back of the scene. I recorded the scene and I was pretty satisfied with it. We captured the clip onto the computer, and I edited it so that it would be in the correct place in the video. When I re-watched it, I was quite angry because I saw a gap between the two wooden planks at the background, which showed a bit of the auditorium. Because of this, I decided to adjust the color of the scene and make it darker because I wanted to make the gap at the back less obvious. After making the scene darker, I thought the jail clip looked a lot better, and it also suited the atmosphere of the scene; dark, gloomy. After that, I went online and downloaded a sound effect of the jail door closing, I thought this could add on to the dark jail effect. I imported the sound effect into the video and adjusted the placement of it until it matched the jail scene. Clare and I tried to add subtitles to both of our video, but we failed to figure out how to do so. My goal for next lesson is to create an image about illegal camcording that included text about it, I would also need to edit my dialogue. I also need to add subtitles for my video. Overall, my video is nearly done, and I am quite satisfied with the outcome. I thought this lesson was very useful because my video is nearly completed! :)
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Film Reflection 17
April 20th 2009
This lesson, Clare and I worked very productively, and we managed to work fast and got a lot of things planned out and modified. After capturing the footage from last lesson and re-capturing the scenes that were accidentally deleted, Clare and I were finally able to start editing and sorting all the clips together. I managed to get everything in place and cut off some parts of the clips. After that we went to www.myvideocompetition.com and went through some of the music that was available for download. We listened to all of the tracks to find out with one suited our videos the best, and we each chose a few for consideration. After discussing and looking at our briefly edited videos, we both decided on one of the tracks. The track that I choice was called "take your time". I thought the track sounded very fun and childish, which suited my video, because instead of making a serious video on Illegal Camcording, I wanted it to be a more humorous. I downloaded "take your time" and imported it to my video. I realized that the track was more than 1 minute long, so I needed to decide on which part of it I needed to cut off. I decided to stick with the beginning of the song and cut off the rest of the it when it went up to 32 seconds. I included the extra 2 seconds in order to give a little space for my short credits after the video. After importing the track, I briefly shifted many of the clips around in order for them to match the rhythm of the song. I watched the entire video and realized that the front scene was too dark, even though the scene is suppose to be located in a cinema, which is obviously dark before the movie starts showing, I decided to add or modify the color or brightness of the scene in order for it to be brighter and easy to see. I used the effect "edit brightness and contrast" to the scene and adjusted it so that it would be easier to see, which worked out in the end. After watching the video, I also realized that the jail scene at the end was very badly taken, and I realized I needed to take it again because the camera was very unstable and shaky, due to the fact that there were no tripods left when we captured the clip. After that I watched the entire video again, at the end of the video I looked at the time and realized that the whole video was about 1 minute long when we were required to make a 30 second video. I panicked because I needed to cut about half of my entire video. Clare and I discussed about which clips needed to be shorten. We then cut many of the scenes that weren't that important, and fast forwarded them which turned out good. The video was now 23 seconds long, which meant that I sill had space to add in the jail scene (which needed to be retaken), and also space for the banner (which includes dialogue) and short credit at the end. My goal for next lesson will be to re-take the jail scene and include a banner in my video about the consequences and awards for Illegal Camcording. I would also needed to include subtitles and include a short credit at end. My general goal is to complete the video after next lesson, also making sure that it would succeed 30 seconds. Overall, I thought this lesson was useful, I was able to do a lot and my video developped very quickly.
This lesson, Clare and I worked very productively, and we managed to work fast and got a lot of things planned out and modified. After capturing the footage from last lesson and re-capturing the scenes that were accidentally deleted, Clare and I were finally able to start editing and sorting all the clips together. I managed to get everything in place and cut off some parts of the clips. After that we went to www.myvideocompetition.com and went through some of the music that was available for download. We listened to all of the tracks to find out with one suited our videos the best, and we each chose a few for consideration. After discussing and looking at our briefly edited videos, we both decided on one of the tracks. The track that I choice was called "take your time". I thought the track sounded very fun and childish, which suited my video, because instead of making a serious video on Illegal Camcording, I wanted it to be a more humorous. I downloaded "take your time" and imported it to my video. I realized that the track was more than 1 minute long, so I needed to decide on which part of it I needed to cut off. I decided to stick with the beginning of the song and cut off the rest of the it when it went up to 32 seconds. I included the extra 2 seconds in order to give a little space for my short credits after the video. After importing the track, I briefly shifted many of the clips around in order for them to match the rhythm of the song. I watched the entire video and realized that the front scene was too dark, even though the scene is suppose to be located in a cinema, which is obviously dark before the movie starts showing, I decided to add or modify the color or brightness of the scene in order for it to be brighter and easy to see. I used the effect "edit brightness and contrast" to the scene and adjusted it so that it would be easier to see, which worked out in the end. After watching the video, I also realized that the jail scene at the end was very badly taken, and I realized I needed to take it again because the camera was very unstable and shaky, due to the fact that there were no tripods left when we captured the clip. After that I watched the entire video again, at the end of the video I looked at the time and realized that the whole video was about 1 minute long when we were required to make a 30 second video. I panicked because I needed to cut about half of my entire video. Clare and I discussed about which clips needed to be shorten. We then cut many of the scenes that weren't that important, and fast forwarded them which turned out good. The video was now 23 seconds long, which meant that I sill had space to add in the jail scene (which needed to be retaken), and also space for the banner (which includes dialogue) and short credit at the end. My goal for next lesson will be to re-take the jail scene and include a banner in my video about the consequences and awards for Illegal Camcording. I would also needed to include subtitles and include a short credit at end. My general goal is to complete the video after next lesson, also making sure that it would succeed 30 seconds. Overall, I thought this lesson was useful, I was able to do a lot and my video developped very quickly.
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Film Reflection 16
April 6th 2009 - Intellectual Property
This weekend, we captured most of the footage that we both needed in our 30 second videos. As we planned last lesson, the time and the location we were going to film, helped us save a lot of time and we simply got our equipment and went to Causeway bay to film everything. This lesson, since we were not completely done with our filming, we decided to ask Ms. Wong to book the auditorium so that I could film my video. We got all our equipment together and went straight to the auditorium to film. In my storyboard the location was the cinema, since we were not allowed to film in cinemas, we decided to film everything in the auditorium, because it looked the closest to a cinema. Once Clare and I arrived at the auditorium, we tested all the lighting in the control room in order to make the place brighter and darker (when the movie starts the lights so brighter from the dark). We finally found the controls to turn on the projector and also the lighting to make the front stage brighter (just like the projector in cinemas). Once we got everything fixed and ready (cameras stand). We practiced it once with Mr. Wong's assistance as a ordinary Hong Kong citizen who was simply watching a movie in the cinema. After a few tries and discussing improvements that include angles, distance, actions, lighting, etc, we finally got right and captured it. Overall, we recorded 3 times due to the distance changes and the camera angles changes. When we were done filming, we suddenly realized that we were using the same tape as the one that we used to film in Causeway Bay and realized we overlapped all the footage that we captured that day. Clare and I were both very frustrated, though since there was nothing we could do about it, we might as well went filming in Causeway Bay again. Forunately, not ALL of the footage we recorded in Causeway Bay was overlapped, many footage at the end was still there. Clare and I decided that we would go fimling today after school in order to re-take all the footage that we did recorded the other day. After that, we went back and captured everything we had so far, just in case we overlap it again. The capture was successful, and we managed to save everything. Overall, I think this lesson was great, everything was recorded and shot well, similar to what we had in mind, except for the fact that we needed to re-take all the footage that was overlapped. Our goal for next lesson is to re-take everything that is missing, and record everything else that needs to be shot. Though in general, despite the fact that Clare and I got really frustrated when we realized our previously taken footage was mostly gone, we still had an enjoyable lesson, it was really fun and we worked well at the same time.
This weekend, we captured most of the footage that we both needed in our 30 second videos. As we planned last lesson, the time and the location we were going to film, helped us save a lot of time and we simply got our equipment and went to Causeway bay to film everything. This lesson, since we were not completely done with our filming, we decided to ask Ms. Wong to book the auditorium so that I could film my video. We got all our equipment together and went straight to the auditorium to film. In my storyboard the location was the cinema, since we were not allowed to film in cinemas, we decided to film everything in the auditorium, because it looked the closest to a cinema. Once Clare and I arrived at the auditorium, we tested all the lighting in the control room in order to make the place brighter and darker (when the movie starts the lights so brighter from the dark). We finally found the controls to turn on the projector and also the lighting to make the front stage brighter (just like the projector in cinemas). Once we got everything fixed and ready (cameras stand). We practiced it once with Mr. Wong's assistance as a ordinary Hong Kong citizen who was simply watching a movie in the cinema. After a few tries and discussing improvements that include angles, distance, actions, lighting, etc, we finally got right and captured it. Overall, we recorded 3 times due to the distance changes and the camera angles changes. When we were done filming, we suddenly realized that we were using the same tape as the one that we used to film in Causeway Bay and realized we overlapped all the footage that we captured that day. Clare and I were both very frustrated, though since there was nothing we could do about it, we might as well went filming in Causeway Bay again. Forunately, not ALL of the footage we recorded in Causeway Bay was overlapped, many footage at the end was still there. Clare and I decided that we would go fimling today after school in order to re-take all the footage that we did recorded the other day. After that, we went back and captured everything we had so far, just in case we overlap it again. The capture was successful, and we managed to save everything. Overall, I think this lesson was great, everything was recorded and shot well, similar to what we had in mind, except for the fact that we needed to re-take all the footage that was overlapped. Our goal for next lesson is to re-take everything that is missing, and record everything else that needs to be shot. Though in general, despite the fact that Clare and I got really frustrated when we realized our previously taken footage was mostly gone, we still had an enjoyable lesson, it was really fun and we worked well at the same time.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Film Reflection 15
April 2nd 2009 - Intellectual Property 3
Today, Clare and I finished our storyboards and also discussed many interesting ideas that could make our videos more interesting. We gave each other advice that we thought would improve both our videos in general. Clare advised me to include some transitions when I am editing the footage, because many of my camera angles are either different or the distance is not the same. If i did not add transitions, they the video would look very messy overall. I thought Clare's advice was very useful and I would consider doing it, though it depends on the footage that I will record later. I also gave Clare some advice that she considered. Due to the fact that she considered to change her original topic for intellectual property from "selling fake handbags", after contemplation, she modified it to "selling fake watches". I adviced her to do fake handbags because we were more familiar with places that selled fake hand bags due to the fact that we often buy fake handbags, we knew many places that sold fake handbags, instead of fake watches. After dicussing improvements and modifications that we could do to each others video, we practiced what we were going to do in both of our videos. Since Clare was going to be the actor of my video, I showed her some of the actions that she was required to do in each scene. I told her many of the things she could improve to fit the video in my mind. Due to the fact that Clare was sure about her topic yet, I could not practice any of the actions I needed to do for her video. Afterwards, Clare and I worked on our scripts, we discussed the angles and the distances for each scene in more depth and we talked about the time, the location, who was in the film, etc. Overall, this lesson was very useful, Clare and I both got a lot of things done and our goal by next lesson is to finish capturing all the footage we would record. Since the video is due by the end of easter, we wanted to get things done quicker, we managed and planned the times we were going to go filming and where we would film, hence saving time later on.
Today, Clare and I finished our storyboards and also discussed many interesting ideas that could make our videos more interesting. We gave each other advice that we thought would improve both our videos in general. Clare advised me to include some transitions when I am editing the footage, because many of my camera angles are either different or the distance is not the same. If i did not add transitions, they the video would look very messy overall. I thought Clare's advice was very useful and I would consider doing it, though it depends on the footage that I will record later. I also gave Clare some advice that she considered. Due to the fact that she considered to change her original topic for intellectual property from "selling fake handbags", after contemplation, she modified it to "selling fake watches". I adviced her to do fake handbags because we were more familiar with places that selled fake hand bags due to the fact that we often buy fake handbags, we knew many places that sold fake handbags, instead of fake watches. After dicussing improvements and modifications that we could do to each others video, we practiced what we were going to do in both of our videos. Since Clare was going to be the actor of my video, I showed her some of the actions that she was required to do in each scene. I told her many of the things she could improve to fit the video in my mind. Due to the fact that Clare was sure about her topic yet, I could not practice any of the actions I needed to do for her video. Afterwards, Clare and I worked on our scripts, we discussed the angles and the distances for each scene in more depth and we talked about the time, the location, who was in the film, etc. Overall, this lesson was very useful, Clare and I both got a lot of things done and our goal by next lesson is to finish capturing all the footage we would record. Since the video is due by the end of easter, we wanted to get things done quicker, we managed and planned the times we were going to go filming and where we would film, hence saving time later on.
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