Video Sound and Production - Project 2

 27/05/2024 - 9/6/2024 (Week6 - Week8)

Yang Jiayi/0369288

Video Sound and Production - Project 2

Video & Sound Production / Bachelor of Design ( Hons ) in Creative Media

Project 2:Shooting Practise & Editing

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.Instructions

2.Lecture

3.Task

4.Reflection

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1.Instructions

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2.Lecture

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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.

Digital video coloring steps:

1. Establish picture profile
2. Color correct footage
3. Color grade footage

What is color hue?

Hue refers to the color itself. In simplest terms, it’s the difference between red and blue. Your hue can then be altered by saturation and brightness, which we'll cover as soon as we give you a few paragraphs on hue.

Together, hue, saturation, and brightness are known as "HSB." This combination makes up the basic color concerns of any video image.

Hues don’t always have to be vivid, primary colors.

What is color saturation?

Saturation refers to the intensity of the color. This is determined by the amount of grey in the hue, from pure grey, to a vivid color.

Saturation is where you really get to make your colors "pop," or, at the other end of the spectrum, become "muddy." Believe it or not, this is all due to the amount of grey information in the color. Seems simple, right?

If you add pure white or pure black to your color, you’ll get a darker or lighter brightness value, which is our next category.

What is color saturation?

Saturation refers to the intensity of the color. This is determined by the amount of grey in the hue, from pure grey, to a vivid color.

What is color brightness?

Brightness refers to the level of light in your color. This determines the difference between, say, burgundy and candy apple.

1. White Balance

White balance is the same thing in your camera as it will be in coloring programs. It describes the color temperature of your image.Your white balance should be one of the first things you do, because it will affect every single decision you make from there on out.

2. Scopes You will want to use scopes (Waveform, Parade, Histogram, Vectroscope) to give you some extra value color info that you didn’t see initially.Scopes are a monitoring tool that show color and light information on a graph so that you can see the precise balance of these characteristics and how they compare to one another.

3. Curves Curves are helpful for precise color correction and color grading, and you will want to pair these with your scopes.

With curves, you can add points to drag colors to new values, and change shadows, midtones, and highlights with much more precision.

4. Color Match Color match allows you to choose a reference image that will then be analyzed and applied to your target image.

This is an automatic calculation, so it is important to check your scopes and use your judgement as to the quality of the color match.

5. Three-Way Corrector Three-way color correctors are a useful tool for many colorists in professional entertainment, but they have their pros and cons.

The three-way color corrector lets you balance the shadows, midtones, and highlights of an image using color wheels. You can set numerical values, or use the control drag point to set your value based on hue.

6. Color Qualifiers Color qualifiers give you the chance to change a particular color, or range of colors, without changing the rest of the picture.

7. Color Masks In the DaVinci program, color masks are called Power Windows. These work a lot like masks in Adobe Photoshop. You can designate a shape to isolate its colors.

We practice color adjustment in class

I brightened the overall tone, which gave me the feeling of waking up in the morning and finding that my phone was not charged.

fig1.1Color adjustment process diagram

Quiz Results:

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3.Task

Project 2A

Our group is filming

Wang Yifan and I played the male and female protagonists. I played the male protagonist. We discussed our makeup and the art director found similar costumes for us. We also encountered difficulties during the filming. We had to keep looking for the right shooting angle and the lighting had to be appropriate. We auditioned many times, but we were still very happy during the filming and thought the process was interesting.

Our stills

fig1.2 Our stills

We planned the shooting, analyzed the clips, and clarified the goals, which will lead to better shooting.

fig1.3 Shoot Schedule

After we sorted out the audio and video, we started downloading

fig1.4 Video and Audio

fig1.5 Audio Join

fig1.6 Color Adjustment 

fig1.7 Color Adjustment

I chose a flashback sequence. The first shot showed success, and then the latter was lyrical. I added some text to attract the audience.

Linkto YouTube.

Project 2B

The theme of my shooting is about my weekly vlog. I record my life through the duration of a song. I will use the card points in the song to arrange my card point movements and complete a smooth transition. The lyrics have Monday to Friday, which can better show my life.

I added video transition effects between Monday and Friday, but some of them were very fast, so I added transitions between individual dates. I fixed the subtitles and music to ensure that they would not be affected when I was cutting the video.

fig1.8 process

I will use different fonts and styles to distinguish the lyrics, and I will emphasize A WEEK to make it more visually appealing.

fig1.9 process

At the end of the video, I will add the blur effect and extend the duration of the effect. At the end of the video, only the black screen and the theme I want to express are: Seven days a week

fig2.0 process

Final Tiktok Video

Tiktok Links：https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mvP2fH8Di40

4.Reflection

Project 2A was also very interesting. I chose to be an actor. I thought the process was very interesting. I needed to carefully watch the demeanor and expression of the male protagonist in the original video, remember the lines, and experience the emotions at the moment. Both of these assignments gave me different experiences. When I started editing my own footage, I thought it was very funny. It is true that I look fat on camera. I learned how to adjust the color tone of the picture, etc. I added music and subtitles to make this video look more like a movie trailer.

I am interested in this assignment. We can choose the theme of the shooting by ourselves. Shooting vlog is also what I have always wanted to do. I think the process is very interesting. It is a simple record of life and myself. I tried to use the capcut to make a video. During the production process, I have to pay attention to whether there is a card point at any time, and the subtitles must keep up at any time, and add effects to make it better.