Project Film Checkpoint 4

Project Film Checkpoint 2

Extension Form: Super Hero Filming Checkpoint 4

I will help with the editing of the film (Master Shots)

Reminder

Sunny,

Don't forget to upload the files on dropbox ^^

Jeongmin Huh

Superhero Checkpoint 4

1. Camera: Sunny

2. Props: CheesyYellow String (Jeongmin)

Cheesepuffs - Yazeed (E-mart)

Cheesy Apron (Mrs. Foster’s)

Yellow Box (Mrs. Foster’s)

Nacho Cheese (Yazeed, the chips too!)

WeezyPaint BrushesPaint Apron

(Mr. Creech’s)

Red, Orange, Yellow cloths

Feathery string

3. Master Shot Categories: Shock and Fear: A Change of Mind, and Shielding Attacker

4. Visual Effects: Explosion

5. Humorous: It's creative and unpredictable that such a big conflict can occur out of just simply not being able to accept the way we look.

6. Super List:  

Shooting Requirements:

Angles

1. Eye Line (SC)
2. Low Angle  (YA)
3. High Angle (JM)
4. Ariel Angle (SC)
5. Dutch(JM)

Subject Shots

1. Long Shot (SC)
2. Medium Shot  (YA) (SC)
3. Close Up Shot (JM)
4. Extremely Close Up Shot (SC)

Action Shots

1. Establishing Shot (SC)
2. Tracking Shot (SC)
3. Head on Shot (YA)
4. Reverse Shot(conversation) (SC)
5. Vertical Pan (tripod)(JM)
6. Horizontal Pan (tripod)(JM)
7. Point of View (SC)
8. Swish Pan (YA)
9. Arc Shot (SC)

Cuts

1. Cutaway (YA)
2. Reaction (SC)
3. Jump Cut (SC)
4. Cross Cut (YA)
5. Object Match Cut(JM)
6. Black Match Cut (JM)
7. Action Cut (YA)
8. Progressive (JM)
9. Cutting Rhythm (SC)

Typing 2.1 - 2.5

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AE Tutorial 4

AE Tutorial 6

AE tutorial 6

AE Tut 5

Intro Credit.aep Download this file

Superhero Checkpoint 3

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X60sJrbK5ThrwIQybIl_07cVllROuEipgFAK8lESlgM/edit

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AE Tutorial 3

Checkpoint 1

After Effects Project Idea

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X60sJrbK5ThrwIQybIl_07cVllROuEipgFAK8lESlgM/edit

Superhero Checkpoint 1

Superhero

• Name: Memory-man
• Special Ability : Can memorize everything that he/she sees, hears, tastes with even just a preview
• Weakness: Physically weak.
• Appearance description: Small, with glasses

Villain

• Name: Chi-man
• Special Ability : can exert energy-balls from his/her body
• Weakness: Can't hide his/her emotions very well, and his/her body reacts with different forms of energy that corresponds with his/her emotions.
• Appearance description: If a girl, hair tied back. pulled up sleeves.

Summary: Villain is in class with superhero. The superhero answers all the questions the teacher asks, and the villain gets jealous. After class, the villain calls up the superhero and tries blast energy balls at the superhero, but the superhero read about preventing/stopping energy balls. Thus, he reacts quickly and with wit, which leaves the villain confused and passed out.

I want to be a supporting character.

Yazeed should be the superhero, and Sunny should be the villain.

Task 1d

Reminder Tut

Task 1c

The most important thing to know when filming my Master Cut is... (finish the sentence and make sure it is true according to the text you read; you will use this as a reminder when you later explain your Master Cut).

Task 1b Master Shots Filming

Typing 1.2

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Typing 1.1

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Task 1a Master Shots

The Unseen Attacker

The unseen attacker is an effective way to add to the suspense and tension to a story. It's particularly effective when the victim is helpless or without assistance, because then the audience can focus on just the good vs evil.

The scene would have a victim walking or minding his or her own business. However, the audience and the victim are indirectly warned before the unseen attacker actually moves in for the kill. The victim would hear footsteps or an unusual sound that would be alarmed and briefly scout the area or look around, being afraid. However, while the victim is helpless and clueless, the attacker creeps in from a corner. At this point, the audience still doesn't know the identity of the attacker. The camera will be filming in the attacker's point of view.

(Note: It would be helpful if the camera uses short lens, because the attacker's approaching/pouncing-on-the-prey would look faster than how fast the victim can escape)

The attacker's identity can either be revealed at the end of the scene, or not revealed at all, or only partially revealed.

The Closing Attacker

In a chase scene, the audience an see the victim escaping. However, they are looking at the scene in the eyes of the attacker. The victim should be escaping towards a particular place, and the audience should know where he or she is running towards. The camera-view nears the victim running away until the attacker jumps into the scene and pounces at the victim. The whole scene needs to be fast-paced in order to induce into the scene a sense of urgency.

(Note: Use short lens. It will help when the camera-view gains upon the victim)

*If the short lens is unavailable, just film without the zoom.

Location: Outside the gym, right outside the building
Victim: AJ
Unseen Attacker: (Not seen)
Props Needed: None

Summary: The victim is walking down the stairs of the school, ready to leave. The victim is all alone and hears footstep, but sees no one; the footsteps stop when the victim stops. The victim first looks around and walks again, but hears the footsteps again and stops. The victim looks around and spots the attacker and tries to climb back up the stairs to an entrance. However, the bag/load that he carries slows the victim down. The attacker quickly gains up on the victim and pounces on the victim over the rail. The victim is shown lying forward, bloodless, and without the bag.

Class Peer Review

Editing Checkpoint 2

Editing Checkpoint 1

iMovie Tutorial 1

Film Checkpoint 1 Re-upload

Film Checkpoint 1

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Checkpoint 8 a/b

https://picasaweb.google.com/114538584110619460937/FilmStoryboard?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCI6P7NfV8uKYlAE&feat=directlink

Task 3.4

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UYxMoQPGgiBzK3GyUYUexCkQzjA25-vyP_OtOv1GrUo/edit?pli=1

Script Checkpoint 6c Act 3

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Script Checkpoint 6b - Act 2

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Script CP 7 Actor List

Character

Yazeed - Protagonist, short 16 year old student who likes to play soccer

Interviewee - Mr. Creech, Senior soccer players (Roland, Shu), Mrs. Jessica Hale

Location

School (Entrance) - Yazeed (Already filmed)

School (Library) - Yazeed (Already filmed), Roland, Shu (February 20)

School (Field) - Yazeed (Already filmed)

School (Weight Room) - Yazeed (Already filmed)

Yazeed's Home - Yazeed (February 25)

School (Mr. Creech's Room) - Mr. Creech (February 21)

Script CP 6a

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Script Tutorial 4

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ssY1B-S6wmJtA_CacJ5_kJBlwcrB_C3ZsGyYYUSaQd0/edit

Shoot Tutorial 4 Youtube Link

Shoot Tutorial 4 Edit Sound

Shooting Tutorial 3

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Task 3.3a Cause and Effect

Title: Wear Shoes
PSA Topic: Wearing Shoes
First narrative line of text: When you walk without shoes, your feet becomes vulnerable.
[A: eye-level, S: establishing/long shot, then to head-on shot]

Second line: When your feet becomes and vulnerable, you become sick.
[A: low angle, S: closeup]

Third line: When you become sick, you can't go to school for a while.
[A: high angle, S: extremely closeup]

Fourth line: When you can't go to school for a while, you lose friends.
[A: low angle, S: medium dolly shot]

Fifth line: When you lose friends, you eat alone.
[A: dutch, S: long establishing shot, then to tracking medium shot]

Sixth line: When you eat alone, you lose self-esteem.
[A: aeriel, S: long tracking shot]

Conclusion: Don't lose self-esteem... Wear shoes on outdoors

Shoot Tutorial 2: Camera Angles

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Script CP 5: Script Scenes

Type of Film: Documentary

Title of Film: A Whole Process

ACT 1
Scene 1
Location: School (Entrance)
Actors: Boy 1 (Yazeed), students trying to get to school
Props: Natural Setting (in school uniform)
Summary of scene: Yazeed gets to school and is asked if he likes school. And what about the school he likes (mainly academics, sports, community).

Scene 2
Location: School (Library)
Actors: Boy 1 (Yazeed)
Props: Natural setting (in school uniform)
Summary of scene: Yazeed is studying at school, and finishing his homework. He is concentrating very hard. He is asked what he wants to become when he grows up, and a second option. What do academics and soccer mean to him? What are the challenges in keeping the balance between the two?

ACT 2

Scene 1

Location: School (Field)

Props: Natural Setting (in soccer clothes)

Summary of scene: Yazeed is playing soccer very diligently. He even stays a little bit after to get advice from his coach and practices a little bit more than everyone else by juggling a soccer ball. He finally leaves with a group of friends back him. (It's night and dark). He is asked of his strengths and weaknesses in soccer, and how he tries to improve himself.

Scene 2

Location: School (Weight Room)

Props: Natural Setting (in gym clothes)

Summary of scene: It's another day for Yazeed. He is training hard at the gym. He is asked to show him improvements in strength by revealing his progression from a lighter weight to a heavier weight, and running records. He is asked why he works so hard at the gym.

Scene 3

Location: Yazeed's Home

Props: Natural Setting (in normal/casual clothes)

Summary of scene: Yazeed takes care of his younger brother and plays with him. He is showing his normal self at his house (eating snacks, interactions with his brother, his homework, his use of freetime). When he watches soccer clips, he is asked how often he watches soccer clips and why he watches them so frequently.

ACT 3

Scene 1

Location: School (Field)

Props: Natural Setting (in soccer clothing/school soccer jersey in case it's a soccer match)

Summary of scene: He is diligently playing soccer again. A set of highlights of his soccer skills will flash throughout the scene. His team-mates (Roland and Shu) are asked what they think of Yazeed. Also, his friends are asked what they think of Yazeed.

Scene 2

Location: School (Mr. Creech's Room)

Props: Natural Setting (in school uniform)

Summary of scene: Mr. Creech is asked about his relationship with Yazeed, what he thinks of Yazeed. Also, Mr. Creech is asked of his hopes and expectations for Yazeed. Yazeed is asked a final question: At the end of the day (training and studying), what do you want to feel like?

Storytell Tutorial 3

Character

1. Character arc: The main character wanted to grow taller and bigger, but he doesn't realize that he could use his small stature to his advantage. He realizes, then, that soccer is not all about size.

2. Peeling the Onion: Injury doesn't stop him from training.

3. Universal Empathy: Character is good at soccer, and displays kindness to others by always encouraging the other players

4. Protagonist: (Round/Dynamic) The main character (boy). He drinks milk and eats a lot of vitamins/proteins in hopes to grow stronger and bigger. He uses his small stature to his advantage later on.

5. Antagonist: (Flat/Static) Other players. They all want to play soccer, but don't train as much. They don't change.

6. Minor character: (Flat/Static) His coach. He just gives advice and watches the players play

Conflict

1. Tension: The boy is competing against other players to get the starting position in soccer and ultimately become one of the best in the soccer competition.

2. Character Lock:  He drinks milk and eats a lot of vitamins/proteins in hopes to grow stronger and bigger. He doesn't get much bigger, but he gains self confidence in himself. He uses his small stature to his advantage later on.

3. Forced Action: The boy tries to play like a big player (with more physicality than technique), but he changes to play like a smaller player (with more technique than physicality)

4. High Stakes: It's his last season in the school. He wants to make an impact in the team and the competition.

Low Stakes: He needs to show up to try outs. However, he is very confident that he can get into the team.

Plants & Payoffs

1. Plant & Payoff: The boy is reminded of the first few matches of the season, in which he will be able to prove his skills.

2. Throughline: The boy wants to play to be the best and practices soccer. The boy gets into the soccer team. The boy wants to display his skills and help the team win.

Plot

1. Catalyst: It's his last season at the school. Thus, he wants to prove himself in soccer, before he leaves.

2. Conflict: The boy is competing against other players to get the starting position in soccer and ultimately become one of the best in the soccer competition. Will he get the starting position?

Task 3.2c

Léonard Cohen "Plato" (2010) by Ian Lumsden

I sometimes write a review, then scrap it, change the film, get it wrong, scrap it, write it again, scrap it, go back to the original via the Recycle Bin, and start again. Actually I don't. I've no time for that. So what I write I publish, given a little pruning. The fabulously named Léonard Cohen and his equally fabulously entitled creation, Plato. Here a figure struggles to get the shape just right. Time and again the object is discarded until, as an apple falling from a tree - or was that another Eureka moment and a different Brit or Greek - a solution is found. Funny, retro, clever and fluidly drawn. Léonard studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifand received Best Graduation Film at Annecy 2011. How gratifying the judges rewarded such an simple, inventive film, given a plethora of mind boggling 3D with every colour in the palette movies, many of which I, of course, feature here.

Snowy

Hey! How did you do that?

I posted this picture yesterday afternoon on my Facebook wall and was asked this very question.

Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 1/8000 sec
Aperture f/1.8
Focal Length 85 mm
ISO Speed 400

Those setting are immaterial this time.

To tell the truth, I just grabbed the camera.
The 85mm lens was on it.
The aperture was already on 1.8
The ISO I did have to change because it was on 1250 from shooting the previous night.
I lowered the ISO to 400.
When I lined up my exposure meter/ shutter speed; this is where is fell (1/8000)
This super fast shutter speed stopped to snowflakes.
It was accidental. Meaning, I didn’t think about it.
But a fast shutter speed is probably pretty important.

What I did do…..

I took the camera off of auto focus and I manually focused on the snowflakes.

Trying to focus on the falling flakes was just not possible on auto focus. The camera kept wanting to focus on the trees
in the background. So I switched the camera to manual focus. (This is a little lever on the side of my camera. Look in your manual to find out where your button/lever is.)

I needed something dark in the background so the snowflakes would show up so I aimed my camera at this trio of pines.

Click. Click.

That’s all there is to it.

I didn’t even have to get my feet wet, as I took this picture from our back door.

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?”
~J.B. Priestley

Encourage one another,
Miz Booshay