Author: saravipond

 Formal Elements Image Sequence + Analysis

Negative Space

In this sequence of photos, the use of negative space highlights the lack of people present and the emptiness in the surrounding environment. This creates a feeling of emptiness as you go through the images. A place that is normally filled with people has no one in it. The way that the subjects are portrayed in the images also leads the viewer to assume that the surrounding is in wait for people to return.

Repetition

The images of the use of reparation in the image of the lockers and desks indicated that there are meant to be many people doing similar. This enhances the feeling of emptiness with the lack of human presence in the images.

Colour

I attempted to have an overarching colour theme of red yellow and blue (which is a triadic colour theme). These are colours that we often associate with school and growing up. I also choose images that have a warmer tone to them. My goal is that this achieves a nostalgic feel to the images, that makes the viewer feel as if they are going through memories.

Perspective (camera angle)

As you go through the images the perspective shifts from over the head to eye level, this is to be representative of the passage of time. The sequence is meant to be like a memory and as you go through the images and the school you return to the present time.

TECH EX 07: VIDEO Editing the Basics

In this exercise, we learned the general basics of where things are located in Primer Pro. In addition, we worked on skills such as creating cuts, and applying effects and transitions.

TECH EX 08: Titles + Stills

Rhianonon_Title_Final

In this video, I learned how to work with text in video. In this exercise, I created a lower third from scratch and from one of the free Adobe stocks as well as a text intro that was modified from a pre-made Adobe template. Specifically, I learned how to make text appear and disappear onto the screen using keyframes. This video is in a link to Google Drive because it got blocked on YouTube for copyright.

TECH EX 09: Colour + SFX + Masks

Colour Correct Basics

Colour Curves + Match

Specialized Colour Effects

Rhiannon_Colour_SFX_Final

Spot Colour + Masks

VIDEO Project: Contrast + Balance / Contrast + Rupture

Draft

Final Project

Reflection

For this project the element that was focused primarily on using was perspective. I wanted to use the camera angle and viewpoint to help convey the emotion of the sense. For a few of the shots, I use a downward angle to show the feeling of sorrow and helplessness. This is best shown in the shot where the vase is knocked over. In addition, I use insert shots to highlight what I want to draw attention to. Two of the insert shots are done at ground level, with the flower and wallet on the ground, and the show further highten the sad uneasy feeling for the viewers.

Another element that I played around with in this project is the colour. The particular colours that I used were green and red. The flowers in the wallet are red which is a colour often associated with both love as well danger, and warning. I dress and the other flowers and the vase are green the complementary colour of red. This is to show the girl’s close connection and belonging with her partner, and the joy in her anticipation of waiting for him to return.

I like this still I pulled from the project because it has this feeling that something bad has happened, which is the premise of the video.

Sound Scape Proposal: 5 4 3 2 1 Grounded

My goal is to create a soundscape that walks people through calming themselves down from a state of panic. This intends to allow the listener to identify the feeling of being overwhelmed and discover a way to ground themselves back to reality. It will start out loud with lots of static and loud chatter that you can’t make out and footsteps and other loud sounds coming from all directions. The overwhelming sounds will lessen as the voice goes the 5 4 3 2 1 grounding method until at the end with is just the soft sound of some cars passing and rustling of the trees.

I plan to achieve this using sourcing sounds such as static and white noise, chatter, and street sounds. For self-recorded foley of human breaths, footsteps, and trees rustling. I plan on using my own recorded voice for the ground method.

Approximant time length 2 mins.

Sound Scape Proposal: Race Day

I want to take people through the excitement of a Dragonboat race. When I am in a race, I take a moment to feel and listen to the ocean and the sound made as we put our paddles in the water together. The boat falls silent and only the official calls the commands then a loud beep you off like a flying dragon. In a race, you are so focused on your boat, so I am going to do the sound for only one boat for the race portion. It will be concluded with the boat erupting into a cheer after crossing the finish line.

I plan to use found sounds for the ocean sounds and the starting beep. The paddle sound and the other sounds in the boat I plan to record my own Foley. The official’s commands as other commands in the boat will be human voice recordings.

Approximant time length 1 – 1.5 mins.

Soundscape Project – Raceday

I went into this project to show what a dragon-boat race feels like. As I started working on the project I thought what if I did a premeditative thought? So it turned into a dream the night before the race.

The emotions I hope that this conveys to others is the mixture of nervousness and peace in preparing for a big event such as a race. Well, the peace part may just be my own how I feel about dragon-boating. It is a sport that helps me feel connected and grounded.

I started this project by collecting all of my found sounds from a combination of sources provided to us in the project description. Next, I started recording the foley for the paddling and the human voice for the speech, breathing, and yawning. The paddling foley was me hand paddling in the tub. I want to experiment more with it in the future to try and get a foley that sounds more like an authentic-sounding race paddling.