Post production of student profile 231

I started cutting between the interview and the b roll to make it more alive. I added SIT logo in post as it was easier then bringing the SIT banner and placing in set plus lighting it.

Then I color graded it to make it more professional and the looks pop up and made it more professional. The three point lighting as well as using proper photo back drop really helped me while colour grading the footage. I used both the premiere as well as the Davinci for colour grading.

I find that the question and answer in the interview is looking a bit blend that why decided to add the question as the pop up during the interview.

Now working in the after effect for the font. After that will be working in the sound and music in protol as this is very important part for any broadcast standard.

Production of student profile Assignment 231

Two location: Photo Studio and SIT main campus student lounge

First location Photo Studio:

                   I selected this location for interview. In this location I was able to control the light. I started with two point light but due to Harold skin tone have to put another fill on it. All my light were have dif in it so I can get soft light on harold. I have few choose with the backdrop. I choose the black drop so it will highlight the person plus it will be easy to colour grade it with darker backdrop.

I choose two shots. First was  a MS.  the second one MCU. So I can intercut between each other easily.  Before I started shooting I did some practice run as harold was not comfortable of the camera. The second thing I did is to ask him question so he can have a flow as he was a little bit nervous. For sound thanks to patrick advise. I used lapel mic and shot gun mic both for clean audio.












The second location was the student lounge. It was hard to control the light as it was outside shot.  But used the ND filters to achieve the desired shots. I used some lens flare also to make some shot beautiful as the new generation is accepted lens flare well and it has a common part of lots of videos in todays generation. 

interview findings for student profile assignment 231

I interview Harold on 25 July 2014. He is a student on SIT. He is doing Bachelor of Hotel and Tourism Management. He is a second year student. He choose to do this course because it always wanted to meet new international people and to travel in future. He choose this course as it will help him to get jobs in international hotels and tourist places in Queentown etc. This is a level 7 course so it will bw easy for him to find job outside New Zealand. He choose SIT because of the Zero Fees structure from finical point of view and even the cost of living is also very low in Invercargill which help students. He find the facilities helpful. The library have the good collections of books. He already got a part time job while studying in a pub which will add up to his experience ones he will graduate from this course. 

davinci resolve 9 lite tutorial

The first session of davinci was based on how to import the clip in to the suit and how to colour correct it.

As davinci resolve 9 lite is divided in to media, confirm, colour, gallery and deliver. We import the clip in the media. Then we see check the clip in the confirm. Then we do are colour correction and grading in the colour and then in deliver we export it.

For colour the camera record in RGB and some times Luma differently depending the camera.

For colour correction. The get the scopes up then we have three wheels. Lift, Gama and Gain.
We play we this three wheels to colour correct.  

We make nodes in colour pannel they kind of act like layer do in the photoshop.

we start with five basic 4 nodes.

Node 1 = Size, Node 2=  correction, Node3 = Hul and Node 4 = clip and soft.

pre production

I started doing my research and try to collect with few image which is related to the visual I am imagining for my short then I did the story board. I design my light plan according to the location, Before designing the light plan one have to decide the location. Ones I decided my location then I concentrated on the set design then I planed my lighting according to it. 

experience in set as a crew.

Being in crew not only helping me to gain experience but also helping me to learn what to do and what not to do.

its always good to have a pre production so it makes the job easy and stress free on the day of shooting for every one. The first AD can follow the schedule if it is done well and it makes the shot more smooth.

reshersaling with actors before the shot. Give more freedom to,  set the shot and its easy for the actor also to gel in to there character.

Always to remember the basic of cinematography ..;specially the little things. Like white balance , shutter angle , frame rate and balancing the tripod.

lighting ....How everybody approach with there lighting plan and what makes certain shot looks good.

What kind of lens people are using and how effect they r trying to achieve.

Action shoot

last week our group did a action sequence.

step 1 = pre planing
we did the planing of the story and some rough storyboard.

step 2 = casting
 casting is always a important part and we search the actors who were capable of performing some action sequence as it also involve some hand to hand combat. It was a gang scence so definitely they have to look like gangster.

step 3- look of the film
 I decided to do a 90's style fight sequence. So the wardrobe was according to that. with some brown leather jackets and long courts.

step 4- location

for location, I decided to have a quite parking place. As it was surrounded with bricks and it was giving good look for the film. The walls have graffiti so it suited the mood also.

step 5- the techniques used.

Shot in 60 p. with a shutter speed of 1000 plus with 100 ISO for smooth slo-mo 

step 5- editing

I did some dark grading with high contrast to get that grinning feeling and look and did some after effect for mussel flash and blood splatter.

                 








Step 6- Sound and music
 Sound and music give  meaning and truth to the effect. That why I laid some music and sound effect on the sequence.