Video and Sound Production / FINAL PROJECT
01.04.2022 (Week 1 - Week 14)
Esther Vanessa/0350751/Bachelors of Design (Hon.) in Creative Media
Video and Sound Production
Final Project
INSTRUCTION
TASK
For our final project we were asked to choose to create between 30s stop
motion video or 60s Visual Effects video.
Before starting anything, we were asked to shortlist each 3 videos and give
rationale why they're good (style, art direction, character design
etc).
Stop Motion Videos
1. Fresh Guacamole by PES | Oscar Nominated Short
This video is relatively old (2013) and I remembered watching it back when
I was 12 and still very new to YouTube. I used to watch the videos from the
same YouTube channel back then and thought they're really good at this. It
was groundbreaking back then, and I still feel all the same.
They are awfully creative with the stop motion they create; by using the
unconventional "food" to represent the cooking, the sound effects they use,
the simplicity with how short the duration was and how enticing it is to
watch. I truly think they're amazing for creating that, it was the greatest
during it's time.
2. DISTORTION. A Stop motion Animation by Guldies
3. Negative Space | Oscar Nominated Stop-Motion Animation | Short of
the Week
This one's beautiful story telling with hidden meaning and really really great use of composition and art direction, the muted colors and really again the physics (thinking that YES these are all still pictures compiled into video), the sound effects they've chosen and just overall, it's a really really great piece of stop motion, I am absolutely in love with it.
1. Ariana Grande - One Last Time (Official)
When being asked for a visual effect video, this is the one I have in mind. It was imprinted on me since the first time I saw it in 2015. I personally think for a music video, it really did not have to go this hard but I remembered watching it in awe. Amazing effects for it's time, and I really love the style of it to look like it's made in the "backyard"
2. Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell
Yet another music video. This one's just great overall, and I remember Billie having the idea of it herself. A great great depiction of the song and the effect is just amazing. It is so trippy, so dark and so fitting with the song.
3. 'Full Control' (2020) A VFX Short Film
TASK
On our 1st project, we were to create a video, either a stop motion video
or video containing VFX. For me, I'm choosing stop motion as it doesn't
need acting from my part. We were to create one paragraph of the
story outline and alongwith it present 3 references.
So here's a story I did.
'A' as a character was seen swamped with so many works on her table from
the morning until sunset. She stood up and grab another cup of coffee and
head outside. She didn't realize it was raining and saw her dog play
around in the rain. It was a beautiful sunset with little trickles of rain
and it made her smile a little bit then joined her dog (who was visibly
yapping at her) to play together under the rain. With that, she felt a
little bit happier and could smile a little.
Afterwards I input into a
proposal, get approved and created
story board
for it.
Then, I started my paper cutting process, this process is hard, annoying
and frankly very frustrating. I was also chosen as one of the people who
needs to do the test shoot in class. Test shoot was okay, because I was
also helped with 3 different people.
During the process, I changed up some component of the story, like making
it not a sunset but just normal sunny day and also her not being out in
the rain because I ran out of ideas on how to animate that using paper cut
outs.
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| Figure 1.1 First test shoot |
I noticed that when shooting in 16:9, I needed to later on adjust my
framing in the editing part since my paper is in the size of A4. I also
noticed that it needs to have good lighting in order to get better
footage.
After finishing test shoot, I started making other components, the most
challenging component I had to animate was the rain, as it was extremely
small and I had to move it bit by bit.
Another struggle I had was the constant change of lighting, realizing it
now I probably should've used external lighting but since the first test
shoot was fine, I figured it was fine. WRONG, I got home, checked the
footage and was so bummed out that some of the lighting was inconsistent.
Since I also use really high ISO (to create brighter footage), the footage
that is still a bit dark has some background noise. I tried to make things
work in the editing.
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| Figure 1.2 Dark footage |
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| Figure 1.3 Bright footage just one frame later |
Then I started with editing. I first import it to AE and went with the
time stretch option. I adjusted the speed first there and checked if it
imported fine. Another problem resurface when it popped up a window saying
I have deleted footage from my sequence, so when I exported the individual
shots, I had some blank page from the video, this means I have to cut it
again in Premiere Pro. For this I used 8 FPS however I time stretch it to
fit the video better.
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| Figure 1.4 Time stretch in AE |
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| Figure 1.5 Color Correcting in Premiere |
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| Figure 1.6 Adding SFX in Premiere |
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| Figure 1.7 Adding BGM in Premiere |
Safe to say, I was going ham with the sound editing. I tried to layer a
lot of audio to create the right ambience I want to depict. I also color
corrected, bring up the brightness a little bit too.
I finally ended up with this.
REFLECTION
Stop motion is not as easy as it sounds, now I do not know much about vfx
but stop motion is certainly not any better. I took it because as far as I
know I love animation but making it is hard, and these papers sometimes
won't work together with me. However, I love the editing part of it and
especially layering music and sfx. Despite everything, I enjoyed parts of
this module and I'm sure it'll be good later to have the skill under my
belt.
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