Video Editing and Production (Week 7 - Week 8)

11/10/2017 (Week 7)
Liam Yue Wei (0327686)
Video Editing and Production
Filming exercise

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Lecture

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Instruction

We were shown a short film called  "Murdered", which is also a BMW Shorties 2012 Grand Prize Winner, directed by Chua Dick Woei. Then, we also have to be split into two teams to do a filming exercise on the storyboard we did for exercise last week.

Synopsis of the short film that we watched, 'Murdered':
Pak Long, a scriptwriter passed by a murder incident, and he got involved by killing the murderer to defend himself. Then, he used the murderer as his own character in his story, so that he can write a good story. In the end, his story was accepted.

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Tutorial

The exercise for "Murdered":

Exercise for 'Murdered'

Sorting out the roles of the team 

Abigail as director
Vivien as assistant director
Bulan as art director
Aurelia as cameraman
Chalani as assistant cameraman

Actors
Hanif as Jessica
Brenda as Malcom


Based on the story (summary) below :

After all the planning, we actually did the shooting in Bulan's apartment room on week 8. We then managed to finish filming at around 3pm and the final video is here with our own editing exercise ( color correction included for assignment 2)

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Feedback

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Reflection

Experience

The short film we have watched today is actually very mind blown, but it is interesting. This is the hardest exercise out of 3 exercises. 

Observation

To me, the short film actually has a lot of plot twists, which can confuse people, but if we pay more attention to it, we can actually figure the story out. There was a surprising scene which we didn't notice till the lecturer pointed out, which is at the end of the video, the security guard whom was killed is actually in the scene, turning around to look at the protagonist. It reflects that the guard was being used as an imaginary character in the protagonist's head, and as a scriptwriter, his characters are always on his mind all the time.

Findings

I noticed that we need to try to do more exercises like defining the 3-act-structure in the films, so that we can get more used to how a film works, and stuffs. We most probably will be more attentive and learned more about their techniques in making a film.