Video and Sound Production/ Bachelor's of Design (Honours) in Creative Media /
Taylor's University
Project 1: Audio Editing Exercises
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Lectures
2. Classroom Activities
3. Instructions
4. Project 1: Audio Editing Exercises
5. Reflection
LECTURES
Week 1: Time Base Project
1. Pre-Production:- Idea development, story, storyboard, visual
references, location/props.
2. Production:- Lighting, costume, principal shooting.
3. Post- production:- Offline editing, online editing, audio editing.
Week 2: Framing & Storyboard
1. Earliest Cinema:-
Arrival of Train at La Ciotat, was revolutionary
by creating the illusion of motion by placing images in close proximity of
time.
L'Arroseur Arrose is a silent comedy film from 1895,
produced by the Lumiere brothers.
Initially the effort to play a film limited its
storytelling ability to converting a 3Dimensional space into a flat
image. This was combatted by breaking up the action into shots and
sequences.
2. Cinematography:-
It is the art of placing the camera in the best position
for that particular moment in the narrative
3. Shot Size:-
Extreme wide shot: Shows a broad view of the surroundings around the character to convey
scale, distance and the geographical location of the character.
Wide shot: Establishing shot. Includes entire subject and important objects in the
immediate surroundings.
Medium wide shot: Includes the body
of the subject from waist up.
Medium shot: Includes the body of
the subject from midway between waist and shoulders to above the head.
Over the shoulder shot: Shows the subject from
behind the shoulder of another person
Medium close-up shot:
Close-up shot: A close up shot
isolates the most important part of the subject such as the
head.
Extreme close-up shot: An extreme close-up single out a portion
of the face magnifies a detail.
Medium wide shot: A medium wide shot shows a
character usually cut off across the legs above or below the
knees.
4. Camera Angle:-
Rule of Thirds: divides the frame into both
horizontally and vertically
Composition: facial modelling is best when subject is
turned 45 degree
Eye-level angle: camera films from the
eye-level of an observer of average height
Low angle shot: Low angle shot can
make a character look bigger, stronger, or more
noble
Higher angle shot: is where the
camera is tilted downward to view the subject
5. Screen Direction:-
Dynamic Screen Direction: Constant
screen travel depicts subject motion in one direction.
eg:- car driving
Static Screen Direction: Shots where the
screen is static
180 Degree Rule: claims that the
camera stay on the horizontal axis and not cross
sections so that it will disorient the viewer. The
horizontal axis is called "Line of action"
Week 3: Understanding Storytelling
The three-act story structure is a popular narrative framework used in
storytelling, particularly in film and literature. It divides a story into
three distinct parts: the setup, the confrontation, and the resolution.
1. Act One: The Set-Up, the first act establishes the protagonist,
their world and situation they find themselves in. This act typically
ends with an inciting incident, which sets the story in motion and
creates a problem that the protagonist must solve.
2. Act Two: The Confrontation, the second act is the longest act where
the protagonist faces a series of obstacles as they work towards their
goal. The act is divided into 2 parts: 1. where they have to encounter
obstacles and 2. where they reach a major turning point.
3. Act Three: The Resolution, the third art where the story reaches its
climax and resolution. The climax is the most intense and dramatic part
of the story.
Week 4: Storyboard
Storyboard in filmmaking is made up of series
of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of
pre-visualizing in motion picture, animation, motion graphic or
interactive media sequence.
It includes details such as camera angles,
character movements, dialogue, and even notes about special effects or
sound.
Week 5: Audio
There are three important sound elements in a video : Speech, Sound effects and Music
1. Types of Sound effects:- Sound effects have 2 types:
Hard sound effects: Specific sounds that are added to a film to enhance a particular action or event, such as a door creaking, glass breaking, or a gunshot.
Ambient effects: Background noise in a film, such as traffic, wind, or crowd noise, that helps to create a sense of environment and atmosphere.
2. Hertz :
Unit used to measure the frequency of sound. Human hearing frequency ranges from 20hz to 20,000Hz. There are 7 subset of frequencies to help define the sounds:- Sub-bass, Bass, Lower Midrange, Midrange, Higher Midrange, Mid Treble, High Treble.
3. Decible:
Unit used to measure the loudness of sound. The threshold of human hearing ranges from 0db SPL to 130db SPL.
4. Space: There are two types :Mono and Stereo
Mono sounds are recorded using a single audio channel.
Stereo sounds are recorded using two audio channels.
Week 6: Colour Correction
Color correction refers to the process where every individual clip of a video footage is altered to match color temperature of multiple shots to a consistent technical standard of appearance.
It’s about balancing out your colors, making the whites actually appear white, and the blacks actually appear black, and that everything in between is nice and even.
CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES
Week 1 - Video Compiling Exercise
For Week 1, we were given basic run-through using
Adobe Premier Pro. We compiled several scenes of 2
two ads together.
Video 1:
Figure 1.1 Video Compilation 1
Video 2:
Figure 1.2 Video Compilation 2
Week 2 - Shooting Exercise 1
For week 2, we were asked make groups of 2 or 3
to shoot the following shots of 5 secs each
other.
1. Low angle Wide shot
2. Front Medium Close up shot
3. Front Medium shot
4. Extreme Close up shot
5. Side angle Medium Shot
6. 3/4 angle Medium Close up shot
7. Eye level Medium Wide shot
Figure 1.3 Low angle Wide shot
Figure 1.4 Front Medium Close up shot
Figure 1.5 Front Medium shot
Figure 1.6 Extreme Close up shot
Figure 1.7 Low angle Wide shot
Figure 1.8 Low angle Wide shot
Figure 1.9 Eye level Medium Wide shot
Week 3 - Shooting Exercise 2
For week 3, we are given another set of shots to
shoot of each other. These were the shots we had to
take:
1. Deep focus foreground shot, Full body background
shot
2. Over the shoulder on Medium Shot
3. Over the shoulder on Medium Wide Shot
4. Tight Medium Shot
5. Tight Medium Side angle Shot
Figure 1.10 Deep focus foreground shot, Full body
background shot
Figure 1.11 Over the shoulder on Medium Shot
Figure 1.12 Over the shoulder on Medium Wide Shot
Figure 1.13 Tight Medium Shot
Figure 1.14 Tight Medium Side angle Shot
INSTRUCTIONS
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