12th December 2016

THRILLER COURSEWORK: Planning Phase 4

12th December 2016

First Go at Editing

Seeing that there were so many takes of just me laughing, I saw potential to create a 'blooper reel' for the giggles, and also to further boost my understanding of premiere pro. This will help me communicate easier to editors in future projects as director- with the correct terminology and clear idea of the program, I can get paint out my vision in a much clearer manner.

I imported license free music and tried to match it with the video. For example, the beginning shot to where I clap on the exact moment the song starts- just to add professionalism and something more orientated than random placements. I also used the pen tool to create points to lower or increase depending on the meaning needed at the time (to hear better, or to overdub the silence). I also used some video transitions like 'fade to black', and increased the time to took, so it became slower to seem smoother as a transition. I also learnt how to use warp stabilizer (the second last shot in the video with the shot of the clock tower and car coming in), and the fact that pressing save was a great plan to often visit. More to this, I learnt more about rendering, and what it meant when red or green bars are hovering above clips in the timeline.

The overview of my timeline, preview, and work space
combining to create at least 2 minutes of chosen footage.

During the process of editing- choosing the right footage at the right time.

A close up to the clips and audio that make up the Blooper Reel.

During the process of exporting, learnt to choose a
H.264 format for the video platform.

Rendering - Exporting process.



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11th December 2016

THRILLER COURSEWORK: Mood Board

8th December 2016

THRILLER COURSEWORK: Planning Phase 3

I had a great idea today during English lesson, so I noted it down. I saw the theme of contrast essential to highlight and use as a recurring motif throughout the opening. For example, the contrast between the calm, greyscale and plain composition in the interrogation room, to be different to the orange-red, dim, and claustrophobic composition in the victim's point of view, that is told using a flashback. This conveys a message to the audience of how evil the suspect may be, proven by the victim's composition, but rather how cold and calculating he is to be in such a calm enviroment and mannerism- almost like Hannibal Lecter's dry and neat cell.

7th December 2016

THRILLER COURSEWORK: Planning Phase 2

In today's lesson, Ryu and I worked on the research and briefly the pre-visualisation phases. I noted down our thoughts on the researching stage, to which we used The Silence of the Lambs as a comparison.

Ryu had worked on the pre-visualisation stage, to which he had created a mood board of the themes that surround our first draft of plot. He had also chosen some music that is license free from a japanese cartoon detective series. The music seems prospective to this project.

6th December 2016

THRILLER COURSEWORK: Planning Phase

Today is the day we get to decide our coursework members, and I chose to work in a pair with Ryu. We had previously worked in the 1-minute film project and I really enjoyed working with him. He allows me to take the lead and most of work on set: acting, choreography, shots, movements...etc, while also adding in ideas so it is a joint decision. In turn, I give him the lead in post-production, but any things that catch me or inspire a better way to organize, I will suggest to him.

I think we will work well together.

This project is very prospective and challenging, but not impossible and unreachable.

4th December 2016

Harrow Bangkok's "45 sec Car Parking" Infomercial

In the past week, Harrow Bangkok has asked if I, along with a team, could produce a short video that outlines and informs the parents and drivers on ways to ease the traffic in the morning and afternoon at the campus when children are being dropped off or picked-up from school. We decided to come in on a Sunday from 11AM to 2:30PM and planned to complete all shots needed. 

We had devised shots of myself speaking and informing the audiences, along with another set of shots of a car for the correct demonstration on the methods. As this project demanded so much context and message within such a short time constraint, we decided to story board nearly all the shots. Personally this is new for me, as mentioned in the post below where I only story board the major scenes. With this project however, I found the story board very useful- so in the future, I may use this technique for scenes with much context within a short sequence.

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3rd December 2016

Thriller Sub Genre "Film Noir" Project: The Film

After much planning and researching, we finally came up with a short film about two detectives working on a crime, based on the Film Noir genre. Things that can be noticed is the accent put on, which is stereotypical and conventional of a 1960s film noir detective. Expected terminology from that period such as "gal" and "dame" were also used, as it thickens the role of the period in the film. Also, contemporary shots were mixed into the film, such as the low-canted shot from the fences, when both detectives are seen staring at the victim's body. More idealistic shots were the tracking shots behind Jonnie the Rookie, and the still shots of the authority at the crime scene.

This production was directed and filmed by me, which was based of the visions I had in my head. Saimink, the producer and the victim, helped story-board my ideas out so we did not forget them. Personally, I only used story boarding for scenes with interesting camera shots or packed with movements, to prevent us from remembering. On site of production, I ran dry-runs and blocked entrances and movements of the actors. Within post-production, Saimink and I took some time to put together the clips with music, and attempted to create a flashback sequence near the end of the film- where the Detective figures out the Jonnie was the killer. Overall, I would say this helped improved my editing skills majorly, as this was the first time I edited a film on Premier without constant support from a teacher.