Video and Sound production: Exercises

21/4/2025 - 27/7/2025 Week 1 - Week14

Komugi Uchibori / 0363900

Video and Sound production / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Exercises



TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. MBI
  2. Week 1
  3. Week 2
  4. Week 3
  5. Week 4
  6. Week 5
  7. Week 6-7
  8. Week 8
  9. Week 9
  10. Week 10
  11. Week 11-14
! Asynchronous class materials and Exercie included in Week sections !

MBI




Week 1 

  • Asynchronous class materials: Shot size
Fig.1-1 Shot size

Fig.1-2 Extream Long Shot
Extream Long shot (Extream Wide Shot): make your subject appear small against their location. Also making the subject feel overwhelmed by its location, emphasizing the location or isolation.


Fig.1-3 The Long Shot
The Long Shot (wide shot): refers that If the subject is a person, then his or her whole body will be in view — but not filling the shot. There should be a grate deal of space above and below the subject.


Fig.1-4 Full Shot
Full Shot: capture the entire subject from head to toe filling the bottom of the frame to the top of the frame while keeping emphasis on scenery.


Fig.1-5 Mediem Wide Shot
Medium Wide Shot: Frame the subject from roughly the knees up. 


Fig.1-6 Cowboy Shot
Cowboy Shot: frame the subject from roughly mid-thighs up.


Fig.1-7 Medium Shot
Medium Shot: frame roughly the waist up and through the torso. It is often used for dialogue shot.


Fig.1-8 Medium Close Up Shot
Medium Close Up Shot: frame the subject from the chest up.


Fig.1-9 Close Up
Close Up: fills your frame with a part if your subject to revearl thier emotion and reaction.


Fig.1-10 Extream Close Up
Extream Close Up: fill a frame with the subject, emphasizing a specific feature of them.


  • Framing
Fig.1-11 Framing

Single Shot: When you shot captures one subject featuring within the frame.

Two Shot or 2-Shot: Two characters are featured in the frame.

Three Shot or 3-Shot: Three characters are featured in the frame.

Over-The-Shoulder Shot (OTS): show the subject from behind the shoulder of another charcter.

Over-the-Hip Shot (OTH): the camera is placed with a character's hip in the foreground, and the focus subject in the plane of acceptable focus. Sometimes it suggests a power imbalance.

Point ofo View Shot (POV): show the viwer what the character sees.


  • Camera Angle

Fig.1-12 Eye Level Shot
Eye Level Shot: When the subject is at eye level, they're in a natural perspective.


Fig.1-13 Low Angle Shot
Low Angle Shot: Frame the subject from a low camera height, looking up at them and emphasizing power dynamics between characters.


Fig.1-14 High Angle Shot
High Angle Shot: points down at the subject, creating the sense of inferiority or looking down on the subject.


Fig.1-15 Hip Level Shot
Hip Level shot: is when the camera is roughly waist-high.

Fig.1-16 Knee Level Shot
Knee Level Shot: When the camera height is about as low as the subject's knee, emphasize a character's superiority if paired with a low angle.


Fig.1-17 Ground Level Shot
Ground Level Shot: is when the camera's height is on the ground level with the subject.


Fig.1-18 Shoulder-Level Shot
Shoulder-Level Shot: The camera is roughly as high as the subject's shoulder. It can maximize the sense of superiority when paired with a low angle.


Fig.1-19 Dutch angle
Dutch angle or Dutch tilt shot: the camera is slanted to one side. With the horizon line tilted in this way, you can create the sense of disorientation.


Fig.1-20 Bird's Eye view Shot
Bird's Eye view shot or Overhead Shot: is from way up high looking down on the subject or a good amount of the scenery surrounding him or her, creating a great sense of scale and movement.

Fig.1-21 Aerial Shot
Aerial Shot: is a shot from way up high, establishing a large expanse of scenery.



  • Composition
Fig.1-22 The rule of third
The rule of Third: The camera frames your shot, keep the image on the intersecting lines, determining the character's place in the world.


Fig.1-23 Balance & symmetry
Balance & symmetry: leading the eye to the center of the screen might end up serving your story better, and garner more emotion.


Fig.1-24 Leading line
Leading line: are actual lines (or sometimes imaginary ones) in a shot, that lead the eye to key elements in the scene.


Fig.1-25 Depth of field
Depth of field: the size of the area in the image where objects appear acceptably sharp.


Fig.1-26 Deep space composition
Deep space composition: when significant elements in a scene are positioned both near and far from the camera. These elements do not have to be in focus.


Week 1 Quiz result



  • Exercise:1 & 1.2
In these exercise, we are supposed to edit video to put clips in correct order using Premium Pro. The steps are as follows:


Fig.2-1 The process of Exercise 1 & 1.2
  1. Download footage from Google Drive 
  2. Create new Premiere Pro Project and Import footage into Premiere Pro
  3. Arrange shots on timeline with proper order clicking "insert"
  4. Export video

  • The Outcome of Ecercise 1


  • The outcome of Exercise: 1.2






Week 2

  • Asynchronous class materials


Fig.2-1 Three act structure broken down

Three-act structure: is a narrative model that divides stories into three parts: Act One, Act Two, and Three-act Act Three.


  • Act I: Setup
sets up the world, characters, the character’s goal, as well as the conflicts or obstacles that are preventing them from achieving their goal. 
  • Act II: Confrontation or Build
raises the stakes for the character to achieve the goal, escalating the conflict.
  • Act III: Resolution or Payoff
resolves the story with either an achievement of that goal or a failure.

The Hook: This is the opening of the movie and, in turn, the first act. The main goal here is to captivate the audience.

The Inciting Event: is an event or decision that kick-starts the plot of a story.

First Plot Point: is commonly referred to as the break into act 2. It’s the point of no return– after the characters cross this barrier, they can’t go back.

The First Pinch Point: happens about a quarter of the way through the second act. This is often the first obstacle, albeit minor, and typically involves the antagonist.

The Midpoint: is a major plot point that happens around the middle of a film which has huge ramifications for the protagonist and the story arc. It can be a good thing or a bad thing.

Second Pinch Point: the break into act 2 or the midpoint. But it’s important in setting up the third act. Usually, the pinch point is a setback. The protagonist is really in trouble, and the audience is starting to wonder how on earth they’ll get out of this.


Third Plot Point: this plot point segues us into the highest stakes of the story yet. This moment also reintroduces the final act’s primary antagonist.

Climax: is the moment the whole story has been leading up to.

Resolution: is a moment to catch our breath and see how the journey has permanently affected our characters.


Week 2 Quiz result



  • Exercise: Shooting practice, shoot & editing
During the class, we were working with selected group and shooting 7 different shots using smartphone. The shooting proces are as follows:
  1. Shoot landscape format video, 5 seconds per shot.
  2. Shoot wide shot with wide angle.
  3. The rest ZOOM IN to get soft background.
  4. Refer to the examples provided or google references for GOOD composition.
  5. Avoid overexposed or underexposed (too bright or too dark).
  6. Do the shooting during day time.

The types of shot are as follow:

  • Close-Up shot   

  • Frontal MCU (soft  background)

  • Frontal MS (soft  background)

  • Extreme Close-Up shotSide angle MS (soft  background)

  • ¾ angling MCU shot (with blurry/soft  foreground)

  • Low angle Wide shot

  • Eye-Level Medium-Wide shot


After shooting, we editted them into one video with caption while mentioning the shot size.


Firstly, I imported all the videos I shot and arranged them by clicking "insert." 


After arranging, I added captions using the text box and shape tool. I changed the opacity of the rectangle as a background. Then I copied and pasted them to each video clip, and edited them.


Once I put in the caption, I muted the original sound and added music brought from a free music site. I added video transition - dissolve - cross dissolve, and Audio transition - cross fade - constant power for caption and music, respectively. Finally, I exported the video.

  • The outcome  


  • Three-act structure - Lalin
1. Which part is act 1, act 2, act 3 respectively? Describe each act with ONE paragraph only. 

Act 1: The main woman who  have complex with her face because of Verbal abuse during high school. After moving to Japan, she could spend enjoyful time with mask but there's still uneasy about showing face to others.

Act 2: A visual novelist sent her messageg to ask her translation because his book gonna be published in Jp. Through the communication with him on the net, she is happy but he came to Japan to see her face to face. She ended up to refuse to see him. But he left his book to let her read it. As she reads it, she recalls a certain event from her student days.

Act 3:  After finishing the book, she takes off her mask and starts running as if to chase after him while absorbing her memory in high school.

2. What is the inciting incident in the movie?
Getting  Verbal abuse during high school in Thailand. so she fly to Japan where no one knows her, she can be new person and nobody care about wearing mask. To be liken by otheres, she started to be net idle.

3. What is the midpoint scene in the movie?
The chat about meeting got heated, and in the end, they didn't meet up. But as she read his book, she started to realize what matters most is.

4. What is the climax scene in the movie?
after absorbing  the book and her memories, she removes her mask and starts running as if to chase the visual novelist.

5.What is the theme of the movie?
It's more important to value what's inside than to be obssesd with appearance.


  •  Everything, everywhere, all at once
1. Which part is act 1, act 2, act 3 respectively? Describe each act with ONE paragraph only. 

Act １: Evelyn runs a laundromat, but she's been called in by the Internal Revenue Service due to tax filing issues. Also she's facing a divorce problem and struggling with her relationship with her daughter. During a visit to the IRS, she met her husband from another universe and tells her she must help save the world.

Act 2: The protagonist go through various universes, gaining new skills and becoming stronger. Along the way, she discovers that the antagonist is a different version of her daughter named Joy from another universe. So Evelyn's father, Gong Gong, also appears from another dimension and tells her to kill 
Joy.

Act3: Evelyn comes to understand her husband's kindness and her love for her daughter.  She finally stoped the destruction of the multiverse. After that, the family works together to resolve their tax issues and returns to their everyday life.

2. What is the inciting incident in the movie?
When protogonist’s hasband from another world tells Evelyn in the IRS that she is the only one who can save the world.

3. What is the midpoint scene in the movie?
The protogonist discovers that the antagonist is a different version of her daughter named Joy from another universe.

4. What is the Climax scene in the movie?
When Evelyn tried to save Joy from the bagel-black hole.

5.What is the theme of the movie?
Realizing the importance of love and kindness toward those close to you, and cherishing 
them.




Week 3

Asynchronous class materials: Storyboard
Storyboard: is a visual representation of a film sequence and breaks down the action into individual panels. It is a series of ordered drawings with camera direction, dialogue, or other pertinent details. It includes the following:

  • Drawings, sketches, reference images or photographs to represent each frame.
  • A description of the shot — any relevant information on the action, dialogue, or composition.
  • Shot specs — shot size, lens length, two-shot, etc.
  • Arrows to indicate camera and/or character movement or how each shot connects to the next.


Traditional storyboards: basic pencil sketches that include detailed information like arrows for camera movement, characters, props, etc.

Thumbnail-style storyboards: don’t have any writing, but reffering to the images.


  • How to make a storyboard

1. Identify key scenes in the script
Highlighting major beats such as actions, locations, wardrobe, staging, narrative arches, and major plot points.

2. Map out the key scene
 Giving each one a number and a relevant title so it's easy to link them back to the broader story in the script.

3. Add images or sketches
collecting reference photography, illustrations, screenshots, location shoots, and even motion to brainstorm the visual features of each beat within the landscape of a story (Idea landscaping).

4. describe what happened in each scene

Describing the style, mood, and behavior of characters as you write out the details of each scene, considering some of the following:

  • Composition and Framing: Decide how characters and objects will be framed within each shot. Use the rule of thirds and other compositional techniques to create visually appealing and balanced frames.
  • Transitions: Plan how each shot transitions to the next. Smooth transitions create a cohesive flow, while abrupt changes can be used for dramatic effect.
  • Character Blocking: Determine character positions and movements within each shot. Show how they interact with each other and the environment.
  • Emotion and Expression: Define a character's facial expressions and body language to capture their emotions and reactions.
  • Annotations: Use additional notes or captions for things that can't be easily conveyed in the visuals.
  • Dynamic Action: For action scenes, break down fast-paced movements into a sequence of panels to ensure clarity.

5. Share it with the team
review your storyboard and share their feedback to see how others interpret your vision for the story.

6. Reference it on the day
Traditionally, you'd print out your storyboards to refer to on the day, but online storyboards can be accessed on phones or laptops.


Week 3 Quiz result


  • Exercise 2

    In this exercise, we are supposed to shoot 5 videos in the class based on the references on Goolge Drive. After shooting, I edited them.

    At first, I made each 5 videos shorter aroud 5 seconds using "i" and "o" for triming.

    After that, I added subtitles and a rectangular as background behind them. Then, I lowered the opacity of the rectangle.

    I searched free music and downloaded it. After importing them, I added 2 effects to sound music and video respectively:
    Audio effect - cross fade - constan power
    Video transition - dissolve - cross dissolve
    Then I completed this task.

    • Final work





    Week 4

    Asynchronous class materials: Stages of film production

    1. Development: the person like producer or scriptwriter has an idea and  get the initial pieces together – the creatives, the financing, the general schedule, and so on.
    • The package: is a collection of the creative elements that will be part of a project. This may include a screenply, a piece of intellectual property, a director, or some actors.
    • Financing: it's the producer’s job to secure that funding. The methods of financing differ between studio films and independent films. Studios can raise money through pre-sales, which means selling distribution rights before the film is made. They can also use slate financing, negative pickups, gap financing, and bridge financing.


    2. Pre-production: refers to all the preparation necessary between financing being secured and filming begins.
    • Budgeting:  a producer has outlined the general costs of a film during the development phase, but in pre-production they get into the nitty-gritty.
    • Getting the team together: a producer hires these people.

      For the crew, a producer, usually with input from the director, will hire heads of departments — professionals like the cinematographer, production designer, costume designer, etc. 

    • Pre-visualizing: start planning out how they want their film to look. This might mean making a storyboard, writing out a shot list and scouting location.



    3. Production: when the cameras roll and the footage is captured.
    • The call sheet: a document sent out by an assistant director each day before a shoot telling each member of each department what their call time is and what they should be planning to do for the day.
    • The set up: The grip and electric departments spend time setting up the lighting. Once one setup is complete, they often start preparing the next while filming is ongoing. Meanwhile, the camera department sets up the camera and any necessary rigging for movement, and the makeup and costume departments prepare the actor's look for the scene. Sometimes, actors run through blocking with the director, and the sound and camera crews rehearse with them. 
    • Shooting process is as follow:

    1. The Assistant Director announces “Picture is up”
    2. AD calls for quiet, then says “roll sound,” prompting the sound mixer press record. Once recording, the mixer will respond, “Sound speeds.”
    3. AD says “roll camera,” and the camera operator will start rolling. saying “Speed.”
    4. The clapper loader (2nd assistant camera) slates, reading the scene information off the clapperboard and marking.
    5. The director says action.
    6. When the scene is over, the director says cut.


    4. Post-production: refers to all the work that is done after footage is captured to finish the film.
    • Picture editing: refers to cutting together the footage to create a coherent film. 
    • Sound editting: putting all the sound effects, dialogue, voice overs, and more in place including sound mixing.
    • Additional Visuals: add various types of VFX like compositing.

    5. Distribution: Marketing and Securing Distribution to get your costomer know your movie.


    Week 4-1 Quize result

    • Production crew
    Producer:  develops the project from the initial idea, makes sure the script is finalized, arranges the financing and manages the production team that makes the film.

    Director:  is primarily responsible for overseeing the shooting and assembly of a film.

    Screenwriter: not only provide dialogue but also shapes the sequence of events in a film to ensure that one scene transitions to the next so that the story will unfold logically and in an interesting way.

    Production Designer: creates a series of storyboards that serve as the film's first draft to ensure visual continuity of the movie from start to finish.

    Art Director: is responsible for the film's settings: the buildings, landscapes and interiors that provide the physical context for the characters, acquiring props.

    Cosutume Desinger: convey the film's time period and the characters who wear costume, including their economic status, occupation and attitude toward themselves.

    Cinematographer (The director of photography or DP): is responsible for the visual aesthetic of the film and capture the script on film or video while paying attention to lightning and camera's technical capavility. 

    Editer: organize the footage and arranges individual shots into one continuous sequence. 

    Actor: is responsible for portraying the characters in a film

    Music superviser (sound mixer): Selecting appropriate music for each sene and so on.

    There are also many other roles on a production crew including grips, gaffers, makeup artists, and stunt coordinators.


    Week 4-2 Quize result


    • Exercise: No class


    Week 5

    Asynchronous class materials: Mise en scène

    Mise en scène: is the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play. Translated from French, it means "setting the stage" but, in film analysis, the term mise en scene refers to everything in front of the camera, including the set design, lighting, and actors. Mise en scene in film is the overall effect of how it all comes together for the audience. 

    •  locations: Location says a lot about characters, intentions, obstacles, and themes.   Consider  film budgeting during your script breakdown phase which will give you real-world parameters you can apply to every subsequent element of your mise en scène. Physical Space: The environment where the action takes place, whether it's a realistic setting like a living room or an abstract, symbolic space.
    • Time Period: The era in which the story is set, influencing costumes, props, and set design.
    • Color: Color in film is a massive element of mise en scene that permeates every other visual element. Its role is creating mood or effect 
    • Set: establishes the world - the set actively informs time, place, and story. Tracking and managing set requirements early in your production process is integral to controlling your film’s mise en scène.
    • Props: Props as a component of mise en scène is often lumped in with set or wardrobe have power. They’re vital elements of film. Any mise en scene definition must include them. Any script breakdown must tag them.
    • Costumes (hair & makeup): What characters wear says much about the world they inhabit, who they are within the world,  how they feel, and how they carry themselves. By magnifying and externalizing character traits, hair and makeup contributes to the elements of film in even the most complex worlds.
    • Lightning:  Lighting, like all the elements of mise en scène explored on this list, is best considered early in Pre-Production, during the script breakdown phase.
    • Compositions & framing: There are rules of composition many image-makers use when framing their subjects. These can be obeyed or broken depending on your intent for the shot but how you frame your shot is massively important in bring all of these mise en scene elements together.
    • Actors:  Where an actor is arranged, and if, when, and how an actor moves in the scene, all highlight the reason for the scene itself, conveying emotions
    • Spatial Relationships: The distance and arrangement between characters and objects, which can indicate intimacy, conflict, or hierarchy.


    Week 5 Quize result

    • Exercise：Trial shoot


    We made a group to practice shooting for task 2. My role was a cameraman and D.O.P.  My personal tasks are as follow:

    • Collaborate with the director to determine the visual style and overall look of the film. 
    • Plan and execute the lighting design for each shot, working with the assistants to set up lights. 
    • Choose the appropriate cameras, lenses, filters, and other equipment for each shot. Frame and compose shots in collaboration with the director and camera operators. 
    • Determine the camera angles, movements, and focal lengths for each shot. 
    • Monitor camera and lighting equipment during filming, troubleshooting any issues that arise. 
    • Ensure that the footage meets technical and creative standards for color, exposure, and image quality. 
    • Work with the camera crew to ensure that the camera movements and shots are smooth and precise. 
    • Supervise the camera and lighting crews, delegating tasks and ensuring that everyone is working safely and efficiently.


    Week 6-7

    Asynchronous class materials: Color theory, color collection & color grading

    • Color theory: A sceintific principle that explains how color hues and saturations are created. The other thing is a creative discipline that examines how color is used to create emotional effect in visual art.


    • Color wheel: used for hundreds of years to express ranges of color.
    1. Monochrome: utilizes varying tones of just one color, usually grey
    2. Analogous: Utilize colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
    3. Complementary: utilizes colors that are opposite on a color wheel
    4. Triadic color: utilizes colors that connect together on the color wheel to form a rectangle.
    5. Tetradic color: utilizes colors that connect together on a color wheel to form a rectangle.
    These are known as color schemes or patterns of color.


    Color correction & Color gradidng


    • Color correction
    The process of correcting (or fixing) colors in a video or a film as a way to get them back to what they should look like.

    1. Normalize your footage as much as possible.
    2. Fix your saturation first.
    3. Then fix your brightness and contrast.
    4. Set your new white balance.
    5. Double check your skin tones.

    • Color grading
    the process of grading (or editing) colors in a video or film as a way to give them a stylistic look. This should be done after color correction.

    1. Normalize your folate as much as possible.
    2. Follow the steps to correct your colors.
    3. Choose your desired look and style.
    4. Make your color adjustments in your editing program of choice.
    5. Double check skin tones and vectorscope.



    Week 6 Quize result
    (The system says this quiz has no answer thus the score is 0/10 automatically.)



    Week 8

    Asynchronous class materials: Nothing



    Week 9

    Asynchronous class materials: Nothing

    • Exercise：Nothing

    Week 10

    Asynchronous class materials: Nothing

    • Exercise：Testing out VFX


    Week 11-14

    Working on Final project & no lecture, quiz and exercise.



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