Final Project (Video and Sound Production)

01 APR 2022- 01 JULY 2022 ( WEEK 01- WEEK 14)
CHIN ZHI XIAN / 0344352
BACHELOR OF DESIGN (HONS) CREATIVE MEDIA / Video & Sound Production
FINAL PROJECT

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INSTRUCTIONS

Week 1

Stop Motion Shorts

We were tasked with watching the stop-motion shorts and shortlisting three of them, and explaining why we chose them (style, art direction, character design, etc.).

#1

Stop Motion Cooking - How to make Fruit salad ASMR 4K Funny Animation 

Week 1 (1/4/2022)

When he cut the fruit, I thought it would be real fruit, but I didn't expect it to be a dice. The color matching is very suitable, and the picture quality is very clear. I like it very much as if our real-world food is like this, and then he controls it. Timing and smoothness are well controlled, and animations look seamless. Definitely one of the best stop motion animations I've ever seen!

#2

Stop motion animation fruit and vegetables

Week 1 (1/4/2022)

The props used are fruits and vegetables. Although he transitions a lot of scenes, there is no sense of incongruity. Although it looks very ordinary, he uses fruits to make many other things, such as clouds, and there is a small tree on the apple as if speaking of a world.

#3

MILK CRATE - stop motion woodworking

Week 1 (1/4/2022)

He was talking about making a piece of furniture. In reality, the process of making furniture is very hard, but he made a piece of furniture as if it was a breeze. The picture quality is very clear and there is no sense of violation. This is also true. a good video.

Visual Effects Shorts

We were asked to see Zach King's shorts and listed three of our favourite visuals he made.

#1

Best of Zach King Compilation - Summer Magic 2020

Week 1 (1/4/2022)

I like that he conjured something out of space, I think it's cool, Zack King's actions are continuous, I can see that he has done a lot of work behind the scenes

#2

Zach King Magic Vines Compilation || Best Zach King Magic Tricks #16

Week 1 (1/4/2022)

His video is about turning fruit into juice. I think it's cool and funny at the same time. The visual he made seems to be like a water dispenser, but it's another matter for us to watch it for money.

#3

New Zach King magic vines compilation 2022 - Best magic tricks ever

Week 1 (1/4/2022)

I was really surprised in his second video because I saw him coming out of the house and driving backwards, but I didn't expect the house to get smaller, the visual thing is really scary．

Film Study (Independent Learning)

Munich 2005, directed by Steven Spielberg

Summary:

The film follows Prime Minister Golda Meir agreeing to a covert operation to hunt down and kill all involved after the Black September assassination of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A team of five gathered in Switzerland, led by Avner, a low-level Mossad technician whose father was a war hero and whose wife was pregnant. It was an expendable team but relied on paid informants who tracked down and killed several people in Europe and Lebanon. They had to constantly seek out the CIA, the KGB, the PLO and their own sources. As the numbers increase — and retribution follows — so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalty is blurred. What does it mean to be Jewish?

Soundtrack

Composer John Williams

What a fruitful year for award-winning composer John Williams. He wrote his final Star Wars soundtrack. He scored Steven Spielberg's summer action film (War of the Worlds). He scored a period drama (Memoirs of a Geisha). To wrap up the year, he scored another Spielberg film - this time the dark dramatic thriller Munich. The film tells the aftermath of the massacre of the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Olympics.

For the flashbacks involving the Olympic offence, two themes were used. The first - a very sad Middle Eastern fringe Munich theme - is performed in a Hebrew-sounding manner by Lisbeth Scott ("Munich, 1972" and "Memory Munich"), along with oboe ("Avner and Daphna"). Another theme, which I call the Black September theme, is a tense and sad one, played in a deep-chord octave, heard in "Attack in the Olympic Village" and "Munich's Tarmac."

The film's central emotional theme, which represents Avner's inner struggle, is Avner's theme and is featured prominently in "Pray for Peace." It is used several times on the album in various forms: full and lush ("Bearing the Burden", "End Credits"), solo guitar ("Avner's Theme"), solo cello ("Bonding") and oboe ("Discover Han s"). It's a very sad subject that feels heavy and the more you listen to it the more you like it.

Main Character

Avner (Eric Bana) is a Mossad agent recruited to lead a covert operations team that will travel across Europe in search of eleven "tagged targets" and take them away through various covert means. After Avner connected with Louis, a Frenchman who made a piece of living selling information, he started sending targets, and Louis kept giving names. However, things started to go south as Avner began to question what he was doing and wonder if the man he killed was really related to Munich. When members of his own team were targeted themselves, Avner felt he had gone too far and tried to back out before he and his family were hit.

Final Project: Stop Motion

Stop Motion Briefing (PDF)

In week 6, we'll decide on the type of video (visual effects and stop motion) we're going to make for our final project. But for those of you who choose animation as our speciality, I choose to stop motion.

Proposal

I chose to cherish as the theme of the stop motion animation because it is a reality that I see many people will not cherish.

Pre-production

StoryBoard

Figure 1.2

Storyboard

Week 10 (3/6/2022)

Material 

Production

Figure 1.3 Set up

Week 14 (29/6/2022)

Figure 1.4 Ending

Week 14 (29/6/2022)

Post-production

Figure 1.5 Stop Motion App

Week 14 (29/6/2022)

I use this app to shoot my stop motion, I don't have a professional camera, so I use iPhone 11 to shoot all my stop motion

Figure 1.6 EDIT

Week 14 (29/6/2022)

Final Submission

Final Submission Video (DISTANCE) 

A within 1-minute music clip with a smooth stop-motion stream that tells the love story of two people. A couple faced the test of long-distance love, they all missed each other, and finally, they experienced many difficulties and finally reached the final reunion.

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REFLECTION

To be honest, I think this project is really a big challenge for me, I have encountered a lot of setbacks because one of the reasons is that the things I shoot are not high-definition enough and the lighting is not enough, but I still remedy it. I still had fun in the process because I learned a lot of shooting skills and know-how to shoot this stop motion.