How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?
Here is a list of the technologies used for producing our film opening:
HARDWARE:
Here is a list of the technologies used for producing our film opening:
HARDWARE:
- Camera (DSLR) + Lens - Nikon D610 / 50mm f/1.4, 18-35mm (vlog)
- Microphone (RODE)
- Drone Phantom 4 - bird's eye view shot
- Laptop (Macbook Pro) - edit
- Phone - communication
SOFTWARE:
- Adobe premiere pro cc
- Aftereffects
ONLINE:
- Blogger
- Youtube - tutorials
- Youtube-mp3.com
- Dafont.com - download fonts
- Snapchat/line
- Google slides/docs/drive
Since my camera (Nikon D610) only allows 60fps at a quality of 720p, and 25fps at 1080p, I decided to set it as 60fps at 720p because this would give a smoother slow-motion footage which in my opinion is one of the main features in films. I learnt that lower frame rate would lead to laggy slow- motion.
As you can see, the highest quality for our film opening that was uploaded onto youtube is 720p.
The reason I set the camera to an f-stop of 1.4 as you can see on the screenshot above, that the focal point is focused on the toy. That is the effect of an f-stop of 1.4, to allow the light to come in in addition to having a accurate focal point. The 1.4 f-stop plays with dimension, and as we focus the camera within the video, it is as if we are allowing the audience to interact with the boy as if playing a hide and seek game when the boy is not recalling the presence of the audience at all, which similarly linking to that he is concentrating on playing with his "ghost" friend and avoiding reality.
To adjust the f-stop manually, I set my camera to A mode, this allows me to film in the lowest f-stop which is f/1.4 for my lens. Lower f-stop means that the output footage will create a blurry background as shown in the image above. This gives a more cinematic look to the footage and therefore will look more professional.
Apart from playing around with he f-stop, I also adjusted the ISO and the exposure setting on my camera according to the setting, this then allows the lighting in the camera to adapt with the setting. The exposure was set to a lower range in most of footages. This created a dark effect, as if the footage was already colour graded. This setting was useful because we did not need to add extra colours or filters to the film.
We used a friend's RODE microphone to record diegetic sounds such as the close up scene of the boy writing on the concrete floor with a brick. I adjusted the amount of sound captured to a lower range in order to capture only the sound of the brick and cancel out most of the background sound. We then added this sound to our sequence to give a more realistic feel to the film.
The Phantom 4 drone was used to shoot a bird's eye view shot to show the audience how small the boy's world is compared to the real world. The phantom 4 is capable of recording in 4K, however i decided to choose a quality of 720p because this would match with the quality of the camera footage. Furthermore, shooting in 720p would take less time to render once put into an editing software. Before flying the drone, we made sure that there were no obstacles in the way.
Other technologies used during this project are laptops for editing the film and general process of the project. Phones were used for communication throughout the project.
SOFTWARE
Softwares used for producing our film opening were Adobe Premiere pro cc and Adobe Aftereffects cc. Premiere pro was used for editing the general sequence of the film including the glitch effect as well. The glitch effect was achieved by using keyframes and moving the position of the frame on every 2 or more frames. By smoothening the glitch, I used the Gaussian blur which can be found in the effects panel in premiere. Aftereffects was used for masking the text to create a cool effect for the credits where the character in the film walks through the text while blocking the text, as if the credit text is a part of the setting.
ONLINE
For the research part of this coursework, I used Blogger.com to record my process throughout the project. As mentioned earlier, I also used youtube to watch tutorials on editing videos, colour grading, and effects. Youtube is a big part of this project as I have found so many interesting ideas from youtube channels which has been an inspiration for my film opening. To download music from youtube, we used sites such as youtube-mp3.org, and http://convert2mp3.net/en/. These sites were very useful and convenient due to the fast speed of conversion.
To download the font for our film opening, we used http://www.dafont.com.
Social media was also a huge part of this project. LINE was used in order to communicate with our partner and also share ideas. We also used Snapchat to send short preview videos of what we have done so far, which we were then able to give feedbacks to each other's work while at home.
Apart from this, Google was probably the most important source to this project. We started off brainstorming our ideas using google drive/docs, this allowed both of us to access the same folder and make changes at the same time from different locations.
Here is a screenshot of our folder with ideas from the start of this project.
The reason I set the camera to an f-stop of 1.4 as you can see on the screenshot above, that the focal point is focused on the toy. That is the effect of an f-stop of 1.4, to allow the light to come in in addition to having a accurate focal point. The 1.4 f-stop plays with dimension, and as we focus the camera within the video, it is as if we are allowing the audience to interact with the boy as if playing a hide and seek game when the boy is not recalling the presence of the audience at all, which similarly linking to that he is concentrating on playing with his "ghost" friend and avoiding reality.
To adjust the f-stop manually, I set my camera to A mode, this allows me to film in the lowest f-stop which is f/1.4 for my lens. Lower f-stop means that the output footage will create a blurry background as shown in the image above. This gives a more cinematic look to the footage and therefore will look more professional.
Apart from playing around with he f-stop, I also adjusted the ISO and the exposure setting on my camera according to the setting, this then allows the lighting in the camera to adapt with the setting. The exposure was set to a lower range in most of footages. This created a dark effect, as if the footage was already colour graded. This setting was useful because we did not need to add extra colours or filters to the film.
We used a friend's RODE microphone to record diegetic sounds such as the close up scene of the boy writing on the concrete floor with a brick. I adjusted the amount of sound captured to a lower range in order to capture only the sound of the brick and cancel out most of the background sound. We then added this sound to our sequence to give a more realistic feel to the film.
The Phantom 4 drone was used to shoot a bird's eye view shot to show the audience how small the boy's world is compared to the real world. The phantom 4 is capable of recording in 4K, however i decided to choose a quality of 720p because this would match with the quality of the camera footage. Furthermore, shooting in 720p would take less time to render once put into an editing software. Before flying the drone, we made sure that there were no obstacles in the way.
Other technologies used during this project are laptops for editing the film and general process of the project. Phones were used for communication throughout the project.
SOFTWARE
Softwares used for producing our film opening were Adobe Premiere pro cc and Adobe Aftereffects cc. Premiere pro was used for editing the general sequence of the film including the glitch effect as well. The glitch effect was achieved by using keyframes and moving the position of the frame on every 2 or more frames. By smoothening the glitch, I used the Gaussian blur which can be found in the effects panel in premiere. Aftereffects was used for masking the text to create a cool effect for the credits where the character in the film walks through the text while blocking the text, as if the credit text is a part of the setting.
ONLINE
For the research part of this coursework, I used Blogger.com to record my process throughout the project. As mentioned earlier, I also used youtube to watch tutorials on editing videos, colour grading, and effects. Youtube is a big part of this project as I have found so many interesting ideas from youtube channels which has been an inspiration for my film opening. To download music from youtube, we used sites such as youtube-mp3.org, and http://convert2mp3.net/en/. These sites were very useful and convenient due to the fast speed of conversion.
To download the font for our film opening, we used http://www.dafont.com.
Social media was also a huge part of this project. LINE was used in order to communicate with our partner and also share ideas. We also used Snapchat to send short preview videos of what we have done so far, which we were then able to give feedbacks to each other's work while at home.
Apart from this, Google was probably the most important source to this project. We started off brainstorming our ideas using google drive/docs, this allowed both of us to access the same folder and make changes at the same time from different locations.
Here is a screenshot of our folder with ideas from the start of this project.
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