Point Break: Sound editing

Sound editing

In this lesson, I had a chance to use Adobe premiere again, but now, I learned how to transfer audio separately and learned how to adjust audio and blending them all in to create one group of sounds best fit for a video. 

There were many sounds to choose from and they came separately, but in this video of Pointbreak, it was a scene of a crime and the an was chasing the burglar into boulevards to department stores and into houses. Sounds such as screaming, foot steps, dishes crashing, windows shattering and car horns were used effectively.

Here's an example of the original footage from Pointbreak:

Western Credits

Western Credits

Last Friday, I got the chance to play around with Premiere and edited a credits scene inspired by the 1966 film The Good, the bad and the ugly. 

This was what the original credits looked like:   

I tried to achieve a more simpler version of the credits by adding fonts available on Premiere and the Colour Matte option to create a colour back ground to my black images.

Overall format of the editing grid

Selections of images and motion picture

Sequence of shots and audio

After that lesson, it made me realize that editing was not an easy task, it takes a lot of practice and a lot of time to learn the basics. 

Jurassic World: Evaluation

One Minute Movie Challenge Evaluation

Our Film:

Above is the one minute trailer of the remake of Jurassic World

Evaluation
During the one week of filming and editing, our first project came out well and I myself was impressed with the amount of work that our group had put into this one minute movie and we all worked hard on producing it.

On the first day, we planned on what topic we were going to do, and finally, we ended up deciding on filming a remake of a movie. At first we came up with the idea of filming a parody of a horror movie but since there were already a lot of films and videos on social media that made parodies of horror movies before, we decided to instead, film a remake of a recently released action movie. We finally agreed on remaking Jurassic world because the storyline was easy to follow, it would turn out funny if it was a parody and most importantly, each member of the group can play at least one part in the film due to the number of notable main characters in the movie. During the planning, we looked at Nigahiga's movies in minutes to get an idea of parodies and how to apply comedy into our work.

Storyboard:

Here are examples of the "movies in minutes" by Nigahiga.



Equipment
For me personally, I thought that using the camera was the most difficult part of this assignment because you have to control your camera and adjust the white balance and brightness to create the mood of the video. Furthermore, you also have to remember to follow the 180 degree rule when suitable and also, you have to remember the different camera techniques such as long, mid, pan, track or close up shots in order to create mood, suspense and comedy. I had difficulty controlling my hands even when I use a tripod which made most of the footage in our video a little shaky. But on the other hand, I had most fun using the camera even though it was challenging because you get to control the scene and the outcome of the movie and I personally enjoyed being the cameraman and the director in my group.

Final Review

This is the final review of what our class and the other class commented on our work

In conclusion, our movie has its positives and negatives. What i personally think was good about our movie was that we had many props and costumes, our story is good and our acting made the audience laugh. However, I think we need to improve on our editing skills, camera work and time management on shooting the scenes and bringing in the props on the right day. But overall, I am proud of my work and it was a good first attempt. 

If I had to do this project again, I would help out more with the editing and not let Shir edit by herself. I would also want to improve my camera skills and make them better. Finally, if I had to do this assignment again, I would want to have a longer time period on this work in order to get a better final product and better responses. 

Jurassic World : Cast and Crew

Jurassic World Remake

Crew and Cast:

Pooh (myself) Director/Cameraman/Actor : My job is to be the cameraman in the group and to take photos for motion animation pictures. I also direct the cast, setting them up to find the best angles and lighting for shooting. Moreover, i teach my team to use the camera when I have to be in the scene. Finally I play as Chris Pratt in the movie.

Saranya Actress/Director :  

Shir: Editor

Earn: Prop manager

Jurassic World Day 2 & 3

Jurassic World Remake

Lesson 2&3

On the 2nd day, we started filming scenes where we had the correct props, day 2 we filmed most of Chris Pratt's (Pooh) scenes and the scenes with the toy dinosaurs. By accomplishing moving shots of the dinosaurs, we had to take various snapshots and angles of the toy dinosaurs, zooming in and out to create an effect of the dinosaurs moving in closer and turning their heads.

Jurassic World: Day 1

Jurassic World remake

Lesson 1:

On the first lesson, we sat down and talked about our ideas for the one minute film challenge and chose the topic of a "parody" or a "remake" of a movie. So, by brainstorming, our group came up with examples of movies that are capable of remaking them into a comedic parody. We listed a couple of films such as Frozen, Avengers, the conjuring etc. By the time we brainstormed, we were stuck with 2 main themes which were Horror/Thriller and Action. Finally, we thought up on remaking Jurassic World because it is easy to make, has "comedy material" and the movie contains the correct amount of main characters that we are capable of remaking. Furthermore, we were able to get inspiration from Nigahiga's "movie in minutes" videos which is a parody of different movies such as Twilight, Chronicle, Avengers etc.