Strategic Diary 4

I am going to the website of podcast. This is a professional website of audio blog. They have a lot of different kind of blogs and I found one which I am interested in. I was published in June 2018, It is talking about religious affairs in China. For this blog, I found his structure is good. He also has a clear thinking. He has a a topic and he uses a lot of evidences to prove it. As a audio blog, the voice and sound are also very important part. The holder voice is gentle and the sound is good. I can hear it clearly.

Although audio blog is a new concept for me, I still can learn some thing from this example. Audio blog is a speaking blog. When we want to talk something in the blog, we will find some findings and add them into the blog in typing. However, we have to sit before the computer or watch the phone. Then we can understand the content from the website. We just can use earphone to listen this blog which you are interested in anywhere and anytime without any limit when we want to listen a audio blog.  I think the audio blog need a good pronunciation and appropriate speaking speed. These two elements are very important. Because when the audience listen this blog, they might doing the other thing, if the blog do not have a good pronunciation and speaking speed, they may miss some important words and can not understand the whole content well. This is a point which I need to notice when I want to make a audio blog.

 

REF

Audio blog, 2018, ‘Pri review’, Podcast, 26 June 2018, <https://www.pop.org/podcast/pri-podcast-june-26-2018/&gt;

Strategic Diary 9

I did some research from internet. I found a director who I am really interested in is Quentin Tarantino. Although he is a director, not a camera man, in his most films, I found a lot of screen which I can learn for my position in our group.

Born in Tennessee in 1963, Quentin Tarantino moved to California at age 4. His love of movies led to a job in a video store, during which time he wrote the scripts for True Romanceand Natural Born Killers. Tarantino’s directorial debut came with 1992’s Reservoir Dogs, but he received widespread critical and commercial acclaim with Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he won an Academy Award for best screenplay. Subsequent features included Jackie Brown(1997), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Vol. 2 (2004) and Grindhouse (2007). Tarantino earned several award nominations for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012), the latter garnering him a second Oscar win for best screenplay. (Biography 2015)

In the ‘Kill bill’, there is a long tracking shot is very famous. It is a good example of our project. Here is the link of the example: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCb-iYTSg0 >.  In this screen, there is one shot and this is a very difficult thing. Because it need a good communication in the whole crew. Director need to tell the movement to the camera man. And director of photography need to arrange the movement of actors. All of them need to do all things correctly then it can make a good screen.

In our project, our director also want to make these kind of screen. Long screen shot can let screen looks more smooth and audience will enjoy it. Our project is a dancing show. Dancing has a set of posture and movement. We have to make a long tracking shot for it. If we do not do that, it is really hard to do the editing work. So I have to see the dancing at first. And director tell me the screen which he wants to get from this dancing. When I receive the idea from the director, as the main camera man, I need to arrange the photography in my mind and try my best to make it come true. It is a good chance to do the new thing for me. I learned a lot of experience from it.

 

REF:

Biography.com Editors, 2018, ‘Quentin Tarantino Biography’, The Biography.com website, 16 October 2018, <https://www.biography.com/people/quentin-tarantino-9502086&gt;

Youtube video, ‘Kill bill, long tracking shot’ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCb-iYTSg0&gt;

Strategic Diary 10

Finally, we finish the whole process of this project. Although there are a lot of changes during the project, we still deal with all problems which we were encountered. I found that the most important thing in this project is communication. A good communication can save a lot of time. When our director want to change the script, he will find us and arrange a meeting with us then tell us about the new script. We always have deep discussion with it and make the best change of it. That really help us to save a lot of time. As the first camera man, I also need to keep in touch with the other camera man. I response to the stabilizer so I need to keep moving around the actor. Sometimes, I will block the other camera’s vision. So I need to contact to other camera man and tell him my movement and he will do some changes when I block his screen. That help us to make a lot of one time shoot.

For me, stabilizer is my first time to use. It is hard to use at first and I do some research from internet and to learn how to use it. It is not hard to learn I think. Then I can use it to get some good frame from it. I fell really happy about it. In the editing part, I joined with them. I also learned some new thing which I have never attached. Naiyi used Davinci Resolve to do the colour grading. It is a totally new software for me. When he did his work, I was looking him and ask him question to learn how to use it. After that, I also learned how to use it but not very skilful. If I want to do more work, I still need to learn more lesson of it.

Strategic Diary 7

In our group work, we will use a lot of different way to present our work. The first thing is the show reel. Show reel is the most direct way to help audience to understand what are you going to do right now. We will show the most important part of our project in the show reel. The frame of stabilizer will be the necessary part. It is not a long show reel, but it contain the main thing in it. It can represent our project now.

In the presentation, we will provide  our website as well. The website is the soul of our project because a lot of important documentary are included in it such the copy right of music and our project process. In the website, we also provide the link of our rough cut and the video of behind the screen. This is also the big part of this project. It can let audience to understand what have we done in the last few weeks. Website will not only be used by teachers and our classmates, but also can be used by the anyone who click our website. It is a good way to promotion our project.

We also prepare some documents to present our project. When we want to show more details but we do not have some pictures or videos to show, we will write them down and add them to our PPT, and read it out to the audience. It is the easiest and most brief way to present some difficult things.

Strategic Dairy 8

In this week, we did our rough cut for the project and we also did a presentation in the class. Teacher give us a lot of feedback. I found that our group is the only group who get the music copy right from the inventor. We noticed that we use stabilizer to shoot the most of screen, but in our rough cut, there is only a little frame which are use stabilizer. We have an issue with the background music. Because we got the copy right with the inventor, our director want to record the song with his voice. It is a hard job for us because we do not have a lot of time to do it. We will rent a voice studio and record the song again. It is the first time. But we will try our best to do it. We also find an other problem for this project is our budget is not enough.