Review of Industrial Media

Well, from my goals and desires at the beginning of the semester, I got some skills for editing footages (cut, color grading and remix), audio (sound/ music pitch edit or so on), texts (motion)and how to remix them, even how to shooting & recording using hardware devices, how to set stage lights and so on. Additional, I have read many documents about images, sounds, write scraps and so on. Use these skills and knowledge, I can independent edit a short remix video like Media Objects Assessment 4. Although, this is not very satisfied for myself, but compare to my zero entry level at the beginning, it’s a ‘big’ change. I’m not a beginner anymore and have made some short videos and audios by myself.

In my beginning post I wrote: “In this learning process, I think I will study not only the equipment and software related, but also skills of shooting, conception, editing or maybe producing manners.” And these trying are all come true or mostly achieved now.

Thanks for my whole semester learning and practicing and thanks for teaching me lots of skills and knowledge. I think this is just a good beginning. I will improve myself in the further studying.

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Colour grading on clips

This is an interesting part for me to learn editing clips colors. Actually, I’m using Photoshop to edit photos colors, so it is not that difficult for me to edit simple video colors. Yes, they are similar manners to edit. I watched Premiere Pro CS6 Three-Way Color Corrector and read Andrea’s course guide, I use Adobe Pr to edit some clips and I screenshot the before & after of some moment of these clips.

As Andrea shows to me, there are three qualities of color: Hue, Saturation and Luminance, I try each of them to edit the shooting practice we did before:

Firstly, I use ‘RGB Curves’ to edit:

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What’s new for me to read? (22.09.2014~3.10.2014)

As the article reading selection from Drama folder, I want describe one point from ‘lighting the shot’ and another point from ‘Writing_Kathryn_Millard’.

1. For reading ‘lighting the shot’, “The basic lighting set-up consists of a key light, fill light and back light.”

“Always on the way”– Abstract Editing Exercise

For this abstract editing exercise, we were going out shot different things. I watched others’ clips and selected some of them, then collect and edit clips for my abstract short video edit. Finally done my edit like this below and named it “Always on the way” to tell “end is anther begin”:

Source (background music): FREE STOCK MUSIC

What’s new for me to read? (11.09~14.09.2014)

As the article reading selection, I want describe one point from ‘SIGHT AND HEARING’ of Drama folder and the other point from ‘Pawel Pawlikowski’ of Doco folder.

1. Well, about sight and hearing. I have a new cognitive. One of the points “If the eye is entirely won, give nothing or almost nothing to the ear. One cannot be at the same time all eye and all ear. ” is showing on this video I found:

Analyse of ‘Clown Train’

‘Clown Train‘ is a good short film for using sound to contribute to the atmosphere.

The case reflection: ‘Lenny’

Impressions of “Nostalgia For the Light”

For the whole fragment watching, I can’t say I like this video or not. Maybe the theme is too serious and performance manner is not directly. It connects two very different kinds of things to contract theme, but need audience to think about it deeply later.

Hey, do you hear it?

From the reading of “Conventions of Sound in Documentary”, I got two points:

About ‘writing/reflectively’

There’s two points that excite me and I never wrote reflection before. This reading helps me a lot and I can learn how to write reflection.

Firstly, I learned that “reflective writing maybe a means of become clearer about something”. No one can start without problem, especially the beginner like me. Beginner will has more stuff to become clearer and improve ourselves. I “might then ‘put’ ideas, information, feelings, other people’s perspectives and advice” ”into the ‘melting pot’”. I should make clearer what I should do more and learn more or maybe what should I change.