Video and Sound Production Final Project

2024.04.22-2024.

Rachel Yeo Rong Qing / 0368901

Video and Sound Production / Bachelor of Design (HONS) in Creative Media

Final Project

CONTENT






LECTURES

     1. Lectures

For the Asynchronous class materials and Quiz result please click here.


Class briefing PPT 


     2. Class Summary    

  • Week 10 : Mr. Martin ask us to complete the Final Project Proposal. We need to provide information until 04 Reference for week 11 discussion.

  • Week 11 : Mr. Martin ask us to download week 10 stop motion footage (phone & DSLR) into our hard drive for editing. Use Premiere Pro and After Effect as the editing software. 

  • Week 12 : Mr. Martin ask us to finish our final project shooting in the studio or in our house / apartment and show him the first cut for review. Final Project Submission : submit the final project by uploading the complete final project slides in Google Drive before 23:59pm, 4th August. The blog is also expected to be completed before 23:59pm, 4th August.



INSTRUCTIONS


Share 3 Favorite Stop Motion Shorts

Mr. Martin asked us to share 3 favorite stop motion shorts.

Dimension of dialogue part 3 : 

"Dimensions of Dialogue," a stop-motion short film by Jan Švankmajer, it divided into three parts that explore the complexities and breakdowns of human communication through surreal, symbolic imagery. The link I paste here is part 3, the reason I choose this video is because I was shock by fluency of the video and also this video is much meaningful.


Change is Everything - Son Lux : 

https://youtu.be/OGtUDffAdy8?si=Ra7sKafF-0NvVBfl

This stop-motion animation dynamically illustrates the transforming force of change in a visually captivating and rhythmic way by using a lot of pins and thread to construct a lot of geometric shapes. I choose this video as my favorite stop motion shorts because I like the creativity of this video.


Fresh Guacamole - PES : 

https://youtu.be/dNJdJIwCF_Y?si=nXDSFE6x2mbAvgel

This video has used a lot of common household objects and transform them into guacamole components in a creative and inventive stop motion animation. I like the part how it transform the common household object into guacamole components and the meaning of the video conveys, it is very creative and interesting.


Proposal

First, we start from the proposal before we create the stop motions. Based on the instruction given by Mr. Martin, we can choose to either solo or group in this final project. Therefore, I choose to be group together with my friends, Shim Yi Xun. 

The requirement of group on the duration of the stop motions is one minute. After discuss with Yi Xun, we decided to create a short animation and the medium we use will be paper.

Below are our proposal : 


Progress

First, we divide the animation into half and each of us took one part to draw by using Procreate.

After the draft of the animation has been approved by Mr. Martin, we proceed to refine the animation.


Once the animation is done, we organized the artwork in Adobe Illustrator to prepare for printing. 
We counted the printed papers and found that there were just over 300 sheets in total.

After the shooting is done, we proceed to edit in Premiere Pro together.

We adjust the frame one by one so that it can match with our music. Due to the music tempo is a little bit not match with our animation's tempo, we have try to edit the music by our own and add some sound effect based on the instruction that given by Mr. Martin. But me and Yi Xun found that we more prefer with the version that is no sound effect so we decided to make the sound effect don't be so obvious


Final Outcome

Link to view our stop motion video : https://youtu.be/hZnGTZKK9no




FEEDBACK

Week 11 : 

General Feedback : The idea of the story sounds interesting and so does the chosen music. I'm looking forward to your next progress and even results.

Specific feedback : Write the synopsis in a short paragraph, one sentence is too short.

Week 12 : 

General Feedback : Animation looks great.

Specific feedback : Try to add some sound effect at some specific scenes. Overall is good to go.




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