Video & Sound Production — Project 2 : Production Shooting & Editing

3/04/2023—28/05/2023 (Week 1—Week 8)
Rachel Madeline Purwanto / 0356994
Video and Sound Production / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Project 2 : Production Shoot & Editing

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❥LECTURE 

Week 5 — Intro to Production Team

Production Team

Producer 

- initiates, coordinates, supervises, controls matters such as raising funding, hiring key personnel, contracting and arranging for distributors

- involved throughout all phases of the process from development to completion of a project

Screenwriter

- shapes the sequence of events in a film so the story will unfold logically and in an interesting way

Director

- responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of a film

- controlling the content and flow of the film's plot

- managing technical aspect of visual with camera department, and sound with audio department

Assistant Director
- assists the production manager and director
- oversee day to day management of the cast and crew scheduling, equipment, script, set
- ensures the filming comes in on schedule while maintaining a working environment in which the director, principal artists (actors) and crew can be focused on their work

Director of Photography/Cinematographer
- head of the camera and lighting department of film
- makes decisions on lighting and framing of scenes in conjunction with the film's director

Sound Recordist
- head of the sound department on set
- responsible for recording all sound during filming

Production Designer
- creating the physical, visual appearance of the film - settings, costumes, props, character makeup

Film Editor
- assembles various shots into coherent film, working closely with director.

Visual Effects Artist
- responsible for compositing images from different sources such as video, film, computer generated 3D imagery, 2D animations, matte paintings and text

Sound Designer
- In charge of post-production sound of movie.

Film Production
Development
- creation, writing, organizing and planning stage of a project
- preliminary budget is made, key cast are attached, key creatives are chosen, main locations scouted and multiple script drafts may be written
- groundwork to show what the project will be and how much it'll cost to make
- can take months or even years to get the project green-lit and move into pre-production
- crew involved in development stage is quite minimal
- small group of creatives and executives crafting the story and associated budget

Pre-production
- planning stage
- elements of video production such as script, casting, location scouting, equipment and crew, shot list all happen during pre-production
- strong concept is essential
- spending appropriate amount of time before full-scale production begins is necessary to nail down concept

Production
- actual filming of the film; principal shoot
- brings their crew, equipment, talent (actors) and all necessary props out to location and capture all footage necessary

Post-production
- footage is edited
- sound is mixed
- visual effects are added
- soundtrack is composed
- titles are created
- project is completed, prepared for distribution
- begins while shoot is still going, helps to identify problems with the footage or any gaps in the story while shoot is still happening

Distribution
- process of making a movie available for viewing by audience
- film may be exhibited directly to the public either through movie theater or television or streaming

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❥INSTRUCTIONS 

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❥TASK 

Task 2A — Production Shooting
For the first task, we are required to do a production shoot according to a scene from a trailer as a group. We were assigned to a clip from a Japanese romance film. 

Fig 1.1 Project S, Silent 

Each of us had to be assigned to our own roles, and I was assigned as the film director.

Group Name : Silent Treee Productions
Producer: Koh Sin Yi 
Director: Rachel Madeline
Assistant Director 1: Sheryl Anusree
Assistant Director 2: Tee Jia Ern
Art Director: Sheryl Anusree

D.O.P: Joan Chiam
Camera Assistant 1: Tee Jia Ern
Camera Assistant 2: Benjamin Ng 
Location Sound: Yap Wai Kei
Boom operator: Benjamin Ng

Actor 1: Lim Xinyi
Actor 2: Emran Tarek Sayed

1. STORYBOARD
We were first assigned to do a storyboard that was given by Mr. Martin and the director had to edit it and add dialogues for each of the scenes and think about the camera angles and the locations as well as a brief description of how the scene would play out and details on how the actor should act.

Fig 1.2 Storyboard for Project S

2. LOCATION & MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
The next step after the storyboard was to gather miscellaneous items and objects that we could use for props, so I made a list of things to gather and the costumes we had to prepare on the day of the shoot for each scene and which of the actors that would be using them or needing them in the scene. 

Fig 1.3 List of Props, Costumes, Locations

3. SHOOTING PROCESS

The shooting process started off with the first scene which was also the most time consuming as we were still trying to familiarize ourselves with how the DSLR camera and the boom mic works and were struggling to get the shot we wanted, so we had to do more than one take for the first scene. 

Fig 1.4 Behind the scenes

Fig 1.5 Behind the scenes

After the first scenes, the rest of the scenes were much quicker and easier to do as we have already got the whole gist of how to use the equipments as well as the flow of the shoot. 

4. EDITING ON PREMIER PRO

The editing process was done on premier pro and all of us had to do it individually. I combined all the scenes and aligned them in order, then experimented with the colour grading as well as removed the background noise in the audio as some of the audios had loud background noise that softened the actors’ voices. To set the tone, I added non-copyrighted background music. I used the effects controls panel to pan the camera from one direction to another for few of the scenes to add a dramatic effect as how they had it in the trailer.

Since it was a romantic scene, I decided to added pink tints and hues to the colour grading, to give it a romantic feel and colour graded the end of the scene to be a little dull as the scene had a change in emotional tone.

Fig 1.6 Editing Process on Premier Pro

Fig 1.7 Final Edited Production Shooting

Task 2B — Editing (TikTok)

During the shooting process, I had to pay attention to the shot and the angle, as certain scenes would make more sense and show a broader perspective in a wide shot while some may look better as an over the shoulder shot.

For this task, we are required to make a tiktok surrounding our campus life, thus I came up with the idea in the ppt above. The duration should be up to 1 minute, and should be uploaded on tiktok. 

Fig 2.1 Progress of editing

Fig 2.2 Progress of editing and colour grading

After shooting several scenes, I decided to start editing on premier pro, having the scenes with me and my friends being warm toned and the scenes alone using cold and dull colour tones with low exposures. 

I matched the clips with the music so whenever the music is muffled, the clip of the one with me being alone transitions in. 

Fig 2.3 Final Tiktok Edit

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❥REFLECTION 

The production shoot was especially fun to do, as we got to experience as we were put into the shoes of being in a professional setting of a production shoot. As for me, being director was pretty new and out of my comfort zone, as I was not used to being a leader, but it pushed me to learn new things and how to direct a film as I had full control over how the scene would play out and what the actors would do in it. The tiktok video was fun as well having to work together to help record each others’ tiktoks. Through learning premier pro and experimenting with its features, I learnt that certain colour grading and music could set the tone certain scenes.