Thursday, October 17, 2013

MDDN211 Project III

Here we go, so that the video I upload on the Vimeo. The title I have been changed little bit to the life behind the camera instead of the 'a Director's life'




MDDN211_Project III from Ben Shen on Vimeo.



I would like to say thanks to Walter, Szilard and Eleanor for their suggestion, tutorial and helps in this paper


Credits: 

Background music 

Solo Piano II Live Concert
by Chilly Gonzale

https://soundcloud.com/chillygonzales/munich-21-nov-2012

Sound effect

airplane.aif

http://freesound.org/people/Bruce%20Burbank/sounds/136592/

Monday, October 14, 2013

Project III storyboard ideas

So that is what have done so far.

I am trying to interview a documentary director who called David Harry Baldock,  will be back here several days later. 
http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/david-harry-baldock


Storyboard





Like the storyboard shows up, I will basic let my interviewee to talk about himself for the introduction at first, then I will ask him more about what his achievement during last 40 years or nearly 50 years career life. After that i will talk little bit about the reason why he came to China for producing the program for the China market.

* Some notes for the presentation for the mddn 211 in the next week
 = have idea that what you going to do
 = have look the project 3 description.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Project II: Nervous

So the scene was start from this forest, by the earthquake there are lots of damage on the trees and mountain

Hope you enjoy it !




MDDN211 Project II Nervous from Ben Shen on Vimeo


Credit for the music and sound effects using in this video

Drowning outside the water by SynoP

breath_comp_piece.aif

motor

worried breathing reverb.wav

Ping-ping!

CarDrifting.wav 

MechanicalClamp.wav by Skullsmasha

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Project II progress

Here is a link for the color hunter website which you can just take a look as a dictionary for a color. You can type some emotion vocaburary and see how the image and color give back to you.

I have chosen to use the emotion - Nervous as the Project II planning and will start blogging the storyboard soon... I will not try to put any people react felling as our project is an abstract film project. So I will focus on my background music and environment/things which made people nervous to convey that emotion feeling to my audiences

Storyboard

This week I already borrow the HDDV from the school downstair workshop. And I try to made a rough cut as soon as possible.

Friday, August 2, 2013

Video for Project 1

Please enjoy it


Project 1 Final


Credit:



Passion







Google map animation by csnow




GeogSpace: Google Maps and Google Earth by contoureducation




Google Street View TimeLapse Part I. New York/Paris/Sidney/Tokyo/San Fransisco by Michaelsulman




Google and the world brain – trailer Sundance film festival 2013

(Trailer) by PRENSAESCENARIO




Google Developers by GoogleDevelopers




Google Biography Building an Empire Documentary by docdocnew




Social media explosion by ViaMind




Steve Kimmens – is Google evil? by IgniteSydney




To understand is to perceive pattern by notthisbody




Sound:




Suspense










Freenet project 02 Privacy by TAOcriativo




GeogSpace: Google Maps and Google Earth by contoureducation




Google and the World Brain trailer Sundance film festival 2013

(Trailer) by PRENSAESCENARIO












Sound:

lost time 0V36m by Setuniman


lost time 0V35m by Setuniman




Chaotic






Freenet project 01 Teaser by TAOcriativo




Freenet project 02 Privacy by TAOcriativo




GeogSpace: Google Maps and Google Earth by contoureducation




Google Biography Building an Empire Documentary by docdocnew




Google and the world brain – trailer Sundance film festival 2013

(Trailer) by PRENSAESCENARIO




To understand is to perceive pattern by notthisbody




Sound:




Sunday, July 28, 2013

Update


More video to get clear idea about the editing technique.
After yesterday class time one and one peer talking I am still finding the video which i am looking for. And Walter said if we get the video from YouTube, or someone else who got license. At least you should credit it/and remix it no more than 10 second. That is really long. for our project just using 1min




seagulls from Mato Atom on Vimeo.

Here This is one website quite useful for teaching about people when they are changing the frame rate from other footages might have this same issue.(And it already happen when I download some different footages from the website)

Here is teaching you how to add text on premiere

Seems I have talk with Walter about the idea behind my Video forages and the theme around the Internet and the application or website company that create to service with common people. I agree with the idea of make the focus point even more specific, and more specific one, I find lots of Google documentary/Motion graphic/trailer/Application review (under creative common license) on Vimeo or YouTube. And by just using this one of the successful company on the planet to make positive and negative point of it.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Proposal for the project 1

For assignment one, we need to select a theme for the video iterations we have created. The coffee, baby and meat as one theme but with a different sounds effect and background music create the effect. Here is some techiniques things i want to share about from the youtube channel before i jump into the specific theme i want to create with.

Some editing techniques

Fade in/out
jump cut
dissovle
panning
crossing cutting
J and L cuts 



http://vimeo.com/9455140
https://vimeo.com/37078076
https://vimeo.com/37214968
https://vimeo.com/12126041

Before that still recall the memory about the camera shot and angel and movement


As I considered, I want to use Internet and website as the theme for my topic. I will probably have around 4 or 5 clips for my footages for this project. By use different editing technique and sounds to produce the different meaning to the audience. I have been trying to find some videos from archive.org and several public domain or downloadable video from Vimeo and somewhere else.

As my first iteration, I will use the rhythm editing to provide the atmosphere of peaceful, hope, vibrant and how the convenient the Internet or the application or software it brings their users in this modern age. In order to achieve this, I will use the editing technique of rhythm editing. The video relies on the music/ sound effect and the logic between the each montage heavily.


The Second one will create the emotion of intense, insecurity as a negative effect of Internet from this no privacy world. Bring the potential meaning ‘big bother is watching you’. As the fast cut editing such as fade in/out, hip pop montage.


Finally for the third one, I will intend to use the cross cut to create the chaotic or something unclear feeling to let viewer judge by themselves the website as a double-edge sword. Cross cut is often applied to create suspense. It also could cut to shots from different time periods.


--update for the third one for the project 1, I am trying to get the cross cut but it could not express the meaning as my limited footage, seems will create the same meaning with the second iteration. So I decide to use the J/L cuts for the several interview/dialogue to contrast the idea behind the google and its application. To give the mind people about what google thinking about themselves...