Video and Sound Production - Exercises
Week 1 - Week 9 / 23 April 2025 - 18 July 2025
Omar bin Shafik / 0371439
Video and Sound Production / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Instructions
Week 1
Mints and Doritos
In this exercise, we were given several video clips from an advertisement
and were tasked to edit them, restoring them into the original video.
Week 2
Lalin Edit
We were given clips of a reenaction of Lalin and were tasked to edit together
one of the scenes in the short film using the clips provided.
Fig 1, Lalin Short Progress
I began by placing the videos in the timeline first, then placed the text images, lengthening and shortening when they show up to fit with the pacing of the video and then finally placed the sound effects for the text and cut them to play when a new text shows up on stream.
Fig 2, Lalin Short Progress
I then cut down the footage so that the story was still there but it only reaches 35 seconds.
Shooting Exercise
We also had to shoot several videos at different shot sizes.
Fig 3, Shots Video Progress
Video Link: Shots
Week 2 Quiz
Fig 4, Week 2 Quiz Results
The Week 2 Quiz was about the different acts in a three-act story structure.
Film Breakdown
Lalin
1. Act 1 is the very start of the film, introducing the main character, Lalin,
with her face covered. It is shown that she is a net idol in Japan. The only
images of her face that are shown are of the ones that she has posted online.
She always wears a mask in public but the reason hasn't been revealed as to
why yet at this point of the story.
Act 2 begins when a graphic novelist who goes
by Nut, from Thailand contacts Lalin, telling her that he is currently working
on a project and would like to hire her to translate his work into Japanese.
Act 2 goes through the story, showing how Nut and Lalin get closer and closer
as time goes by. Eventually, Nut asks Lalin if they could meet up in real
life, to show her what he's been working on this entire time. This builds up
to the climax of the story. Nut travels all the way to Japan in hopes of
meeting Lalin. They had a place they agreed upon, but at the last second,
Lalin bailed out on him, revealing to the viewers that the reason she
constantly wore a mask was because she was severely insecure about her bad
acne, causing Nut to leave, leaving behind his work, hoping Lalin would read
it.
Act 3 begins when Lalin reads through the draft. The story
was based off what had happened in his life, where he had met Lalin
previously and she had commented on his drawing skills. Through her words,
he found encouragement to grow as a person. Back then he used to be
overweight, but through her words he started working out, eventually losing
almost all of his fat and gaining a healthy body. Reading through the draft,
Lalin realizes who he was and rushes out, looking for him to apologize. By
the time she reached the train station he was at though, the train had
already left. And then it revealed that the entire film was an ad for a
pharmaceutical company.
2. The inciting incident would be when Nut contacted Lalin for the first
time.
3. The midpoint scene would be where Lalin and Nut would go out on dates,
both of them being able to see each other through their phone cameras while
on these dates.
4. The climax would be when Lalin reads through the draft of the story and
realizing who Nut really is.
5. The whole theme of the film would be self confidence and finding worth
in yourself.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
1. Act 1 introduces the main character Evelyn and her family, alongside their
laundromat business that they're running. Evelyn is shown to be someone that
is flawed and finds it difficult to keep up with relationships. Tension has
been rising within the family, and an audit from the IRS will be the cause of
the initial conflict.
Act 2 introduces the multiverse and how Evelyn traverses it
with an alternate version of her husband, Alpha Waymond, and gains different
powers along the way after experiencing life as different versions of
herself. She eventually meets Jobu Tupaki, an alternate version of Joy that
can seemingly manipulate reality at will. Jobu presents to her a nihilistic
worldview and the potential destruction of the multiverse.
Act 3 resolves everything in the film. Evelyn starts
to see things from Jobu Tupaki's, Joy's point of view. She accepts that
there is at least some value from the different versions of herself, she
reconciles with Joy, accepting her for who she is.
2. The inciting incident would be when she meets Alpha Waymond and first
learns of the multiverse.
3. The midpoint would be when Evelyn starts trying to understand the way
Jobu or Joy is thinking and trying to accept it.
4. The climax would be when Evelyn and Jobu start their final fight at
the IRS, ending in reconciliation.
5. The theme revolves around the meaning of life and familial
relationships.
Week 3
Quiz
Fig 5, Week 3 Quiz Results
Week 4
We were given slides and we were tasked to draw up a storyboard based on
the story in the slides given.
Fig 6, Storyboard Exercise
Week 4 materials was about the different production stages during the
making of a film, pre-production, production and post-production, and also
about the different roles in a production crew, like producer, director,
editors, actors, and cinematographers.
Quiz
Fig 7, Week 4 Quiz 1 Results
Week 5
Week 5 materials were about the ccomponents of a mise en scene, a French term
that literally translates to "placing on stage". This refers to the overall
arrangement and presentation of a scene.
Quiz
Fig 9, Week 5 Quiz Results
This week, we were given a special effects video tutorial to follow and
recreate.
Fig 10, VFX Tutorial Progress
Link: VFX Tutorial
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