White Balance

8/12/15

This morning we watched a video on 'Story vs. Plot', a short film called Plot Device and were given a task to make a film that features a button in five different locations in relevance of the short film we watched.

One of us suggested that this button was a teleporter. The story of it is that Paige finds a button and now she is everywhere! I haven't heard what the ending was gonna be, but the last thing that was happening was I was a rogue sorcerer that stole the button off of Paige and it would somehow come back into Tobie's hands.

We had to change the white balance at every location we are at, for example the park had a wintery feel, there was dew all over the ground and the sun was sort of cloudy. I feel like I need to know how to change the white balance on the camera. I do know that white balance is to intensify colour on film.

Leanne

7/12/15

Today Leanne caught up with some of the students individually to assess them on missing work. Then she talked about 'Job role' presentation for next week. I worked on my cue cards for my presentation. Generally we were allowed to catch up on outstanding work in between individual chats.

Possible items to Include in a Film schedule

04/12/15

Pre-production

• Scripts
• Storyboard
• Location scouting
• Risk Assessment
• Booking Equipment

Production

• Who's filming
• Timing
• Locations
• Further filming?

Post-production

• Edit
• Levels
• After-effects

Media Theory again

04/12/15

 

Yesterday we watched a short YouTube video about plot structure. We answered questions about our film scripts. Peer-assessed each others' scripts just as mine was too.

 

We then began our schedules for pre-production, production and post production of our films. This was started individually but continued in groups.

 

We then worked on our Christmas card designs(see below.) We were then put into pairs discussing Christmas card design. I brought in a card and wrote about it in a Google Doc.

 

I produced a greetings card proposal for the hand drawn Santa I did. We watched a short tutorial on creating our own brushes in Photoshop. I then outlined the hand drawn image I did using the brush tool. I then duplicated the same layer used the paint bucket tool to fill in the necessary gaps. I then used the 'magic wand' tool to outline the area of the layers and try to avoid colours spilling outside the blank spaces.

 



Short film

2/12/15

Today we were discussing about what makes a short film interesting. We were given time to catch-up on our work - I worked on my script.

We discussed about White balance. it is a process where unrealistic colour casts so that the objects are rendered white in your photo, because it gives a natural look.

Interview with a Guitarist

1/12/15


We were working on our Guitar interview edits. We all watched each other's, including mine and we gave a bit of good bits and constructive criticism on our work. My shots worked well (five shot method), I used the rule of thirds and a gave a good interviewing style. However I should have reduced the distortion at the beginning, worked somewhere without background noise(especially the interruptive clapping!), improve white balance to reduce e.g. tan effect on Tobie and show the interviewer's (me) - possibly re-recording me reading out the questions again.

Popcorn

1/12/15

• I used the brush tool and paint bucket tool to create a popcorn kernel in the 'up' state.
• I then worked on the 'down' state and used the same method to create an exploded kernel. It's not pure white: it has a yellowy tinge to it.
• I moved to the 'over' state and sized the kernel down so it would reduce in size when the cursor was moved over it.
• I then tested it by going into 'Scene 1' and then choosing 'Commands' and 'test movie: In Air debug launcher (Desktop).'
• I downloaded a sound effect from the Freesound website and dragged the file into the image of the exploded popcorn kernel in the 'down' state to create a popping sound when someone clicks the button.
• I then opened a new symbol and pasted my original popcorn kernel into it. I used the 'Free Transform' tool to change the angle of the kernel, and changed the angle in different ways across several key frames to create a jiggle effect.