VIDEO & SOUND PRODUCTION / EXERCISES
September 23, 2025
video & sound production / EXERCISES
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22.9.2025 -19.10.2025 (week 1 - week 11)
Low Xin Er / 0374596 / Bachelor of creative media
Low Xin Er / 0374596 / Bachelor of creative media
Video & Sound Production / Exercises - Sound Dubbing
LECTURE NOTES
week 1 (25.9.2025)
Time base project
- Pre production: Idea develop,story board, visual references
- Production: Lighting,custom,shooting principles
- Post Production: offline/online/audio editing
- Offline editing : focuses on creating the story with lower-resolution
- Online editing: a technical finishing phase that conforms the project to original high-resolution footage for final color grading, visual effects, and audio mixing.
week 2 (29.9.2025)
Asynchronous Class Materials
Three-act story structure
- popular narrative framework used in storytelling, particularly in film and literature
- divides a story into three distinct parts: the setup / confrontation / resolution.
Act One:
- Establishes the protagonist, their world, and the situation
- Typically ends with an inciting incident, creates a problem that the protagonist must solve.
- The inciting incident can be a positive or negative event, but it must be significant enough to disrupt the protagonist's world and force them to take action.
Act Two:
- The longest and most complex of the three acts.
- Protagonist faces a series of obstacles and challenges as they work towards their goal.
- Divided into two parts: the first half, where the protagonist makes progress towards their goal
- Second half, where they encounter setbacks and complications.
- Typically ends with a major turning point: protagonist faces a significant setback or crisis that forces them to reevaluate their approach.
Act Three:
- The story reaches its climax and resolution.
- Protagonist must confront their final challenge and overcome it in order to achieve their goal.
- The climax is the most intense and dramatic part of the story.
- The resolution=denouement, protagonist's journey comes to a satisfying conclusion.
Reference Video
week 3: (6/10/2025)
Asynchronous class materials
Storyboard
Storyboard
- a visual representation of a film, animation, or video game, much like a comic strip.
- a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose
- exp: pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.
Purpose
- used to plan shots, understand the narrative flow, and to communicate ideas to the production team.
- include details: camera angles, character movements, dialogue, notes about special effects/sound.
- helps visualise the scenes and prepare for the shooting process.
Value
Production stages- a crucial part of the pre-production process
- allows filmmakers to experiment with different visual approaches & identify potential problems
- make necessary adjustments before the actual filming begins = saving time and resources.
References
What is a storyboard?
Reading: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-storyboard/
How to make storyboard
Reading: https://milanote.com/guide/film-storyboards
week 4: (13/10/2025)
Can be broken down into three main phases: pre-production, production, and post-production.
1.Pre-production:
- Planning stage of filmmaking: all the necessary preparations are made before filming begins.
- Includes tasks such as writing the script, creating storyboards, casting actors, scouting locations, designing sets and costumes, and hiring crew members.
2.Production:
- The stage where the actual filming takes place.
- The production team capture all the footage needed for the film, using the plans and preparations made during pre-production as a guide.
- Can be physically and logistically challenging, as it involves coordinating a large team of people and managing a complex schedule.
3.Post-production:
- The footage is edited and assembled into a final product.
- Includes tasks such as cutting and arranging scenes, adding music and sound effects, colour grading, and visual effects.
- Can be a time-consuming process, as it requires careful attention to detail and a keen eye for storytelling.
After post-production
The film may go through additional stages such as distribution and marketing, but these are not considered part of the production process.
Production Crew
Production Crew
A team of professionals who work together to create a film or video. Each member of the crew has a specific role and set of responsibilities, which are essential to the overall success of the production.
1.Director:
1.Director:
- Responsible for overseeing the entire production and ensuring that the creative vision for the project is realised.
- Work with the cast and crew to block out scenes, direct the actors' performances, and make creative decisions about the look and feel of the film.
2.Producer:
- Responsible for the logistical and financial aspects of the production.
- Secure funding, hire the crew, coordinate the schedule and locations, and ensure that the project is completed on time and within budget.
3.Cinematographer:
- Known as the director of photography (DP), is responsible for the visual aesthetic of the film.
- Work with the director to choose the right camera, lenses, and lighting to achieve the desired look and mood for each scene.
4.Production Designer:
- Responsible for the overall visual design of the film, including the sets, costumes, and props.
- Work with the director and cinematographer to create a cohesive and immersive visual world for the story.
5.Sound Designer:
- Responsible for the audio aspects of the film, including recording and editing dialogue, sound effects, and music.
- Work with the director and editor to ensure that the sound and picture are seamlessly integrated.
6.Editor:
- Responsible for assembling the footage into a coherent and compelling story.
- Work with the director and sound designer to shape the pacing, tone, and structure of the film.
There are many other roles on a production crew, including grips, gaffers, makeup artists, and stunt coordinators, but these are some of the key positions and tasks involved in the filmmaking process.
Reading:
1.Beginner: https://www.govtech.com/education/news/the-roles-of-the-production-team.html
2.Advance: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/film-crew-positions/
- A French term that translates literally to "placing on stage."
- In the realms of theater, film, and other visual storytelling mediums, it refers to the overall visual arrangement and presentation of a scene.
- This concept encompasses everything that appears within the frame or on stage and how these elements are organized to convey meaning, emotion, and narrative to the audience.
Key Components of Mise en Scène
1. Setting and Location
- Physical Space: The environment where the action takes place, whether it's a realistic setting like a living room or an abstract, symbolic space.
- Time Period: The era in which the story is set, influencing costumes, props, and set design.
- Items used by characters or present in the scene that can symbolize themes, indicate character traits, or advance the plot.
- Clothing and makeup that reflect a character’s personality, social status, occupation, or psychological state.
- The use of light and shadow to create mood, highlight specific elements, and guide the audience’s focus. For example, high-contrast lighting can create a dramatic or tense atmosphere.
- How elements are arranged within the frame or on stage, including camera angles in film or the positioning of actors in theater. This affects how the audience perceives relationships and power dynamics.
- The actors’ physical movements, facial expressions, and interactions contribute significantly to the mise en scène, conveying emotions and subtext.
- The selection of colors used in costumes, sets, and lighting can evoke specific emotions or symbolize thematic elements.
- The distance and arrangement between characters and objects, which can indicate intimacy, conflict, or hierarchy.
week 6: (30/10/2025)
Reading:
https://vimeo.com/blog/post/color-grading-vs-color-correction-explained/
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-color-theory-definition/
week 7: (6/11/2025)
Colour Correction- The process where every individual clip of a video footage is altered to match color temperature of multiple shots to a consistent technical standard of appearance.
- Balancing out the colors, making the whites actually appear white, and the blacks actually appear black, and that everything in between is nice and even.
RGB
- An additive color model in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.
- The main purpose of the RGB color model is for the sensing, representation, and display of images in electronic systems, such as televisions and computers.
- Before the electronic age, the RGB color model already had a solid theory behind it, based in human perception of colors.
Colour Grading
- Taking what you have done in color correction one step further, by altering an image for aesthetic and communicative purposes.
- Empowered with the ability to further enhance your story by manipulating colors to create a new visual tone.
- Skin tones: Skin tones sit somewhere in the orange spectrum, so pushing teals into the shadows will help skin tones stand out from the rest of the image.
- Contrast: This grading technique/style creates color contrast. Teal and Orange have the highest contrast between their exposure values of any pair of complementary colors on the color wheel.
week 8: (12/11/2025)
Frequency range
- Hertz(Hz): Human hearing: Frequency range from 20Hz to 20,000Hz
- 7 subsets of frequencies used to help define the Ranges.
Dynamic range
Space
- Decibels (dB): The threshold of human hearing is measured as 0dB SPL (sound pressure level) and the threshold of pain 130dB SPL.
- Mono v.s Stereo：Mono sounds are recorded using single audio channel, while stereo sounds are recorded using two audio channels.
week 9: (20/11/2025)
Download footage & AE project file:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13iFgH2sQZchC7SWBvrywyBvrvdC8Z14Y?usp=sharing
Fig.Progress in Adobe Effect
week 10: (27/11/2025)
Project 3 - Final Project Briefing
Final Project Proposal: VFX (1 minute)
1. Working title
2. Provide selected VFX tutorial
3. Theme & Synopsis
4. References
4. References
- Music suggestion (Spotify/Youtube)
- Visual References (Screen Shots)
6. Shot List & Storyboard
7. Submission
a. Final Video Youtube link:
a. Final Video Youtube link:
b. Final project Google Drive
- Premiere Pro/After Effects Project file:
- Raw Materials: jpeg seqs/video/sound effects/music:
- Behind the scenes documentation: takes photos of the preparation and during the shoot, document it in your blog.
INTRUCTION
Project 1
Exercise 1: Sound dubbing (15%)
references
Exercise 2: Sound shaping (15%)
references
software require: Adobe audition
week 1 exercises in class
fig.exe1 using adobe premier (25/9/2025)
fig.exe2 Arrange video order (25/9/2025)
week 2 (2/10/2025)
Exercise 1: Shooting practice
Fig.low angle wide shot
Fig.side angle medium shot
Fig.close up
Fig.eye level medium wide
Fig.low angle wide shot
Fig.frontal medium close up
Fig.extremely close up
Fig.close up
Fig.frontal medium shot
Fig.3/4 angling medium close up
Exercise 2: Editing practice
Fig. lalin video
Fig. Deep focus-FG: MCU, BG:full body
Fig. over shoulder on medium shot
Fig. over shoulder on medium wide shot
Fig. tight medium shot
Fig. tight medium shot side angle
week 6 shooting in class (30/10/2025)
Docs link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bTnokA-QOOIzQALGIUHAjqoGg7Ateaxdi-RDshFXg1A/edit?tab=t.0
Behind the scenes
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Fig. photos with yellow team
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