Assignment 3 Vlog
Assignment 3 was the hardest I had done as it was the main bulk of the project actually making my final piece.
I started by drawing a storyboard, then writing out a script which I did find a bit tedious, however, it is part of the project. The next step was filming and making the animations. The filming was easy as I simply set up a set using the veranda in my back garden and some bed sheets, then just filmed the friend performing the moves. I then filmed in my Tae-kwon Do class which was even easier how ever I didn't use a tripod or nothing as I wanted the class to carry on as normal with out drawing any attention to myself. The animations were the hardest things to make, as they were the most time consuming. I will say however, that I improved immensely from the first one to the last one, and this actually is evident during the film too.
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Editing Process
Editing Process
I found editing my final film in 'Theory' easy however, when getting round to actually doing so, it was time consuming and I had to make a few exceptions, with what I had to hand although it was not ideal.
For example; I could not find an ideal song for background music at first then, I found an 'all right' peice that when I experimented with the volume and turned it down, it sounded quite good.
I edited my piece in Three steps.
The first was putting all the videos and animations in sequence so that there was a rough order of how they would go. Here is a screen shot of the sequence.
I also colour corrected some of the shots I had using colour grading in Premiere.
From this: To this:
Then, the second step was to add text over the top of the videos and animations that said what the moves were in English and Korean, which you can see in the image above at the start of the sequence. It took me a little while to get the text right and the transition of the words, as when I moved computers (as I had to move classes) I noticed that the same text font to not transfer over to the other so, the text I wanted was substituted so, when I went back on to the original computer all I had to do was change the font back to what I wanted originally.
Here is a screen shot of the sequence with text.
The third step was to add in audio. I first put the dialogue in the sequence and adjusted the videos and animations to fit which then made the whole video a couple of minuets longer than one which I first proposed consequently, I do feel that there is nothing I can take out unless I remove one of the moves from each category. Secondly, I added in the music, I didn't have a set song , but I did have a few that I thought could work and be appropriate for this film, so I imported them all into 'Premiere' . I took one at a time and put them in the piece to see which one fitted best, in the end I picked one for the main part of the film and used a more upbeat song for the credits at the end. The last piece of the puzzle was the sound effects, I decided not to use any sound effects in the main section of the film apart from when I had the freeze frames to signify the change of move type, I used a kind of slow motion swoosh that had a climax which is when the freeze happens. Here is the sound.
https://www.freesound.org/people/cosmician/sounds/159574/
I found editing my final film in 'Theory' easy however, when getting round to actually doing so, it was time consuming and I had to make a few exceptions, with what I had to hand although it was not ideal.
For example; I could not find an ideal song for background music at first then, I found an 'all right' peice that when I experimented with the volume and turned it down, it sounded quite good.
I edited my piece in Three steps.
The first was putting all the videos and animations in sequence so that there was a rough order of how they would go. Here is a screen shot of the sequence.
I also colour corrected some of the shots I had using colour grading in Premiere.
From this: To this:
Then, the second step was to add text over the top of the videos and animations that said what the moves were in English and Korean, which you can see in the image above at the start of the sequence. It took me a little while to get the text right and the transition of the words, as when I moved computers (as I had to move classes) I noticed that the same text font to not transfer over to the other so, the text I wanted was substituted so, when I went back on to the original computer all I had to do was change the font back to what I wanted originally.
Here is a screen shot of the sequence with text.
The third step was to add in audio. I first put the dialogue in the sequence and adjusted the videos and animations to fit which then made the whole video a couple of minuets longer than one which I first proposed consequently, I do feel that there is nothing I can take out unless I remove one of the moves from each category. Secondly, I added in the music, I didn't have a set song , but I did have a few that I thought could work and be appropriate for this film, so I imported them all into 'Premiere' . I took one at a time and put them in the piece to see which one fitted best, in the end I picked one for the main part of the film and used a more upbeat song for the credits at the end. The last piece of the puzzle was the sound effects, I decided not to use any sound effects in the main section of the film apart from when I had the freeze frames to signify the change of move type, I used a kind of slow motion swoosh that had a climax which is when the freeze happens. Here is the sound.
https://www.freesound.org/people/cosmician/sounds/159574/
This is what the sequence looked like.
The very final step is to export out the finished video, I didn't render the video before exporting as I knew it would do so on exporting. I knew that it would take a while to export however, I was not expecting the estimated time to come up with 1 hour and 22 minutes at first ,it managed to export and render in around 20-25 minuets which is not so bad despite it saying over an hour.
Monday, 8 May 2017
Recording Dialogue and finding music/sound effects
Recording Dialogue and finding music/sound effects
I recorded the dialogue for my piece at home as I wanted to use a piece of software that I have on my computer which is good for screen and audio recording as well as streaming called OBS or Open Broadcasting Software, as its also known. It took me a little while when I first got the software to get my head around it but, I did eventually and now I feel that I can set it up to record or stream anything on the computer.
For my Recording I set OBS to only record audio input from my Gaming mike that I use for talking with my friends when I play video games on the computer games, the reason for this, and did not borrow one from college, is because it is a high quality mike, as long as the setting for it is set as high quality for everything and it came out pretty clear.
When I was speaking I had to do a couple of tests to see if everything was working, so I just said "testing, testing" and it was a great sound on the file, this meant I could carry on with the rest of the script. The whole thing took me about 40 minuets to set up and record. I did make a few mistakes that meant I had to redo a couple of the lines, because I was trying to sound clear. To read the script and say the lines reasonably fast so I can fit the audio in with the video with out too much editing afterwards was quite a challenge.
Insert pick of software and set up here:
When it came to finding music I automatically went to the youtube music library where there is music that is copyright free, reliable and safe to use/download so I have had to listen through numerous tracks on there . I couldn't seem to find one that sticks out and say it should be in my piece, so I have saved a few that I think could work and in editing I will put them in and see which I feel works best . This will be the one in the final piece.
For finding sound effects I did exactly the same as the music, I found some I liked and saved them, then I will try a couple in editing. I did use a different website called Freesound.org as well because I have used them before, and they have community posted sounds that are free to use, as long as you post the link of the sound in the description or credits for example there is a slowing down time sound effect that I have got from their that is perfect for a couple of my scenes.
Insert sound effects here:
I recorded the dialogue for my piece at home as I wanted to use a piece of software that I have on my computer which is good for screen and audio recording as well as streaming called OBS or Open Broadcasting Software, as its also known. It took me a little while when I first got the software to get my head around it but, I did eventually and now I feel that I can set it up to record or stream anything on the computer.
For my Recording I set OBS to only record audio input from my Gaming mike that I use for talking with my friends when I play video games on the computer games, the reason for this, and did not borrow one from college, is because it is a high quality mike, as long as the setting for it is set as high quality for everything and it came out pretty clear. When I was speaking I had to do a couple of tests to see if everything was working, so I just said "testing, testing" and it was a great sound on the file, this meant I could carry on with the rest of the script. The whole thing took me about 40 minuets to set up and record. I did make a few mistakes that meant I had to redo a couple of the lines, because I was trying to sound clear. To read the script and say the lines reasonably fast so I can fit the audio in with the video with out too much editing afterwards was quite a challenge.
Insert pick of software and set up here:
When it came to finding music I automatically went to the youtube music library where there is music that is copyright free, reliable and safe to use/download so I have had to listen through numerous tracks on there . I couldn't seem to find one that sticks out and say it should be in my piece, so I have saved a few that I think could work and in editing I will put them in and see which I feel works best . This will be the one in the final piece.
For finding sound effects I did exactly the same as the music, I found some I liked and saved them, then I will try a couple in editing. I did use a different website called Freesound.org as well because I have used them before, and they have community posted sounds that are free to use, as long as you post the link of the sound in the description or credits for example there is a slowing down time sound effect that I have got from their that is perfect for a couple of my scenes.
Filming Process
Filming Process
The filming process was the easiest to execute to be honest, as it meant waving a camera around and there we go I have the shots. Ok maybe not quite like that, but it was way easier than the animation process, and more fun, that is why my piece has more physical film than animation in it. On the plus side I invited my friend around too to do the moves so, we spent the day together.
I had two locations that I filmed in, One being my back garden where I filmed the singular move shots, The other being my Tae-kwon Do class.
The first shots that I filmed were in my back garden, where I used a Canon 700D DSLR along with my tripod, however, I used the tripod as a mono pod because I had to navigate around my garden which had a few uneven surfaces as well as a pond that I had to negotiate . I decided I wanted to film the shots out side because there was the most amount of space, plus it meant that I did not need to have lights set up as it was a bright day with a thick layer of cloud that meant the light dispersed evenly making the shots bright with out needing extra equipment. If I had filmed inside there would not of been enough space for the high kicks and other action shots, and I would of needed lots of lights as it was fairly dark inside comparatively.
I made the set by combining three bed sheets I originally wanted the background to all be black, however I only had one black bed sheet so I decided to go for a bit of a weird design in that the top half was black and the bottom red. To do so it meant pinning up the bed shit on to something luckily for me my dad had been making a veranda which did not have a roof on yet so I pinned the sheet to the wooden support beam that went across the top, Then I noticed that you could see through the sheet, so I then put one of the red sheets behind the black giving it more solid colour, and also stopping it from being see through. I then draped the other red sheet over some wood that was lying around and then made it flat on the floor filling up the bottom of the set. The wind gently blew the sheets too which was a bonus as it added to the final effect.
Then in post edit I will zoom in to remove most of the stuff out side of the scene.
I got my friend to come round and bring his full Dobok(the white suit) and perform the moves for me .
We used simple instructions for communication such as "recording" when I started recording then "1, 2, 3, go" to signal when he should move at which he left a second between go and him moving so that their was some room for editing, then he would perform the move and stay in the last position, at which point I would wait a couple of seconds again for editing then say "cut" and stop recording.
For my second set of shots I filmed in my Tae-kwon Do class where I wanted it to be as raw as possible, so I simply asked my instructor if he could run the class as normal and I could film like I was not even there.
I only had one chance to record the shots that I needed from the class because I didn't want to take up much of the classes' time, and also I want consistence of who was there or not as the case may be. Speaking of people who were not there, I was politely asked by a couple of people to not be filmed, so I made sure I was filming at angles, so that meant they were not in the shot. This proved quite easy as their was only two people that didn't want to be filmed, and they were right at the end of the line, so I just filmed from where they were which meant that they weren't in it.
As I only had one chance to film it meant that I could not get any experimentation in with the colour balance, lighting and angles, so the shots do have a bit of a yellow tindge but I can fix that easily in post production using colour grading built in to 'Premiere.'
I used the same camera set up as the first set of shots however, I did not use a tripod or mono pod this time, as the case may be becasue it was too big to take to the class, plus the set up would of made me more apparent leading to the students staring into the camera detracting from the raw feel I was aiming to achieve.
The filming process was the easiest to execute to be honest, as it meant waving a camera around and there we go I have the shots. Ok maybe not quite like that, but it was way easier than the animation process, and more fun, that is why my piece has more physical film than animation in it. On the plus side I invited my friend around too to do the moves so, we spent the day together.
I had two locations that I filmed in, One being my back garden where I filmed the singular move shots, The other being my Tae-kwon Do class.
The first shots that I filmed were in my back garden, where I used a Canon 700D DSLR along with my tripod, however, I used the tripod as a mono pod because I had to navigate around my garden which had a few uneven surfaces as well as a pond that I had to negotiate . I decided I wanted to film the shots out side because there was the most amount of space, plus it meant that I did not need to have lights set up as it was a bright day with a thick layer of cloud that meant the light dispersed evenly making the shots bright with out needing extra equipment. If I had filmed inside there would not of been enough space for the high kicks and other action shots, and I would of needed lots of lights as it was fairly dark inside comparatively.I made the set by combining three bed sheets I originally wanted the background to all be black, however I only had one black bed sheet so I decided to go for a bit of a weird design in that the top half was black and the bottom red. To do so it meant pinning up the bed shit on to something luckily for me my dad had been making a veranda which did not have a roof on yet so I pinned the sheet to the wooden support beam that went across the top, Then I noticed that you could see through the sheet, so I then put one of the red sheets behind the black giving it more solid colour, and also stopping it from being see through. I then draped the other red sheet over some wood that was lying around and then made it flat on the floor filling up the bottom of the set. The wind gently blew the sheets too which was a bonus as it added to the final effect.
Then in post edit I will zoom in to remove most of the stuff out side of the scene. I got my friend to come round and bring his full Dobok(the white suit) and perform the moves for me .
We used simple instructions for communication such as "recording" when I started recording then "1, 2, 3, go" to signal when he should move at which he left a second between go and him moving so that their was some room for editing, then he would perform the move and stay in the last position, at which point I would wait a couple of seconds again for editing then say "cut" and stop recording.
For my second set of shots I filmed in my Tae-kwon Do class where I wanted it to be as raw as possible, so I simply asked my instructor if he could run the class as normal and I could film like I was not even there.
I only had one chance to record the shots that I needed from the class because I didn't want to take up much of the classes' time, and also I want consistence of who was there or not as the case may be. Speaking of people who were not there, I was politely asked by a couple of people to not be filmed, so I made sure I was filming at angles, so that meant they were not in the shot. This proved quite easy as their was only two people that didn't want to be filmed, and they were right at the end of the line, so I just filmed from where they were which meant that they weren't in it.As I only had one chance to film it meant that I could not get any experimentation in with the colour balance, lighting and angles, so the shots do have a bit of a yellow tindge but I can fix that easily in post production using colour grading built in to 'Premiere.'
I used the same camera set up as the first set of shots however, I did not use a tripod or mono pod this time, as the case may be becasue it was too big to take to the class, plus the set up would of made me more apparent leading to the students staring into the camera detracting from the raw feel I was aiming to achieve.
Animation Process
Animation Process
The animation process in quite simple in that it is essentially drawing a few pictures one after the other and then the computer will animate them to one another accordingly . There might need to be a bit of tweaking as I found out when putting it all together.
The first step is to open up Animate:
Then I click on HTML canvas which gives me the basic animation format to work with:
The next step is to import my back ground:
I do so by opening up animate and the file window that the background is in and drag and drop over the main screen in animate, the computer automatically makes a layer with the background on. You do have to zoom in or shrink the background so that it fits the frame.
My next step, was to create another layer and start to draw the first position the character would be in, I used the videos that I recorded as reference to get proportions and positions right.
This was the layout that I was using to work with.
I proceeded to do postilion by positions and frame by frame, leaving about five frames between the first and second drawing and the same all the way thought to the end of the animation.
Finally to finish off each animation I would make all the frames turn in to 'Classic Tweens' just to make the scenes smoothen out.
Some did not turn out too great once I applied the Tween so, I had to go back and select the part that did not look too great, and convert them to a frame by frame animation, and then adjust each frame one at a time, which made them a little more tedious but meant the it looked better. This operation was quite time consuming too.
Then all I need to do is export.
I did see a massive difference between the first and last animation that I made, which shows how I progressed, and how my skills have improved. drawing wise and animation wise. Saying that if I had time I would go back and redo the first few animations that I made at home at the beginning, purely because they look so bad compared to what I have made now, however it does give a good topic to talk about in my final evaluation and self assessment.
The animation process in quite simple in that it is essentially drawing a few pictures one after the other and then the computer will animate them to one another accordingly . There might need to be a bit of tweaking as I found out when putting it all together.
The first step is to open up Animate:
Then I click on HTML canvas which gives me the basic animation format to work with:
The next step is to import my back ground:
I do so by opening up animate and the file window that the background is in and drag and drop over the main screen in animate, the computer automatically makes a layer with the background on. You do have to zoom in or shrink the background so that it fits the frame.
My next step, was to create another layer and start to draw the first position the character would be in, I used the videos that I recorded as reference to get proportions and positions right.
This was the layout that I was using to work with.
I proceeded to do postilion by positions and frame by frame, leaving about five frames between the first and second drawing and the same all the way thought to the end of the animation.
Finally to finish off each animation I would make all the frames turn in to 'Classic Tweens' just to make the scenes smoothen out.
Some did not turn out too great once I applied the Tween so, I had to go back and select the part that did not look too great, and convert them to a frame by frame animation, and then adjust each frame one at a time, which made them a little more tedious but meant the it looked better. This operation was quite time consuming too.
Then all I need to do is export.
I did see a massive difference between the first and last animation that I made, which shows how I progressed, and how my skills have improved. drawing wise and animation wise. Saying that if I had time I would go back and redo the first few animations that I made at home at the beginning, purely because they look so bad compared to what I have made now, however it does give a good topic to talk about in my final evaluation and self assessment.
Thursday, 4 May 2017
How i will receive feedback
How I will get feedback
I plan to get feedback on my final piece of work by making a questionnaire using Google forms to gather results of what I did well and what I didn't do well. Some of the questions may be appropriate if you do Tae-kwon Do, ie; 'would this video be helpful for remembering basic theory?' 'Would you like there to be another video like this but on more advanced theory?' 'Did you like the style of how it was made/filmed/edited?' these are just a few for examples. I will also ask verbally some of my Friends at Taekwon-do for their opinion, to get a more down to earth feel for it.
I know from previous experiences, questionnaires don't always allow you to right exactly what you would like to, as it might mean diverting from the question. Then, using all these results I will some up what I think I did well, and not so well and then justify why ,from what people say in the results.
I did also think about holding a focus group, however, when I sat down and started looking at the fundamentals of doing so, I thought it wouldn't be a good idea, as trying to organise some of the students to sit down and give feedback together would be difficult as I wouldn't be able to get them to come in out side of lesson as they have there own lives and I cant do it in lesson as it would disturb the lesson. I considered asking the instructor but they are always occupied with questions from parents and organising the lessons.
I am hoping that the above actions with my questions will give me enough feedback to get a conclusive opinion on my Theory film.
I plan to get feedback on my final piece of work by making a questionnaire using Google forms to gather results of what I did well and what I didn't do well. Some of the questions may be appropriate if you do Tae-kwon Do, ie; 'would this video be helpful for remembering basic theory?' 'Would you like there to be another video like this but on more advanced theory?' 'Did you like the style of how it was made/filmed/edited?' these are just a few for examples. I will also ask verbally some of my Friends at Taekwon-do for their opinion, to get a more down to earth feel for it.I know from previous experiences, questionnaires don't always allow you to right exactly what you would like to, as it might mean diverting from the question. Then, using all these results I will some up what I think I did well, and not so well and then justify why ,from what people say in the results.
I did also think about holding a focus group, however, when I sat down and started looking at the fundamentals of doing so, I thought it wouldn't be a good idea, as trying to organise some of the students to sit down and give feedback together would be difficult as I wouldn't be able to get them to come in out side of lesson as they have there own lives and I cant do it in lesson as it would disturb the lesson. I considered asking the instructor but they are always occupied with questions from parents and organising the lessons.
I am hoping that the above actions with my questions will give me enough feedback to get a conclusive opinion on my Theory film.
How I will get feedback
How I will get feedback
I plan to get feedback on my final piece of work by making a questionnaire using Google forms to gather results of what I did well and what i didn't do well. Some of the questions may be if you do Tae-kwon Do would this video be helpful for remembering basic theory? Would you like there to be another video like this but on more advanced theory? did you like the style of how it was made/filmed/edited? these are just a few for example. I will also ask verbally some of my Friends at Taekwon-do what they think to get a more down to earth answer as i know from previous experiences questionnaires don't always allow you to right exactly what you would like to as it might mean diverting from the question. Then using all these results i some up what i think i did well and not so and then justify why i people said what they say in the results.
I plan to get feedback on my final piece of work by making a questionnaire using Google forms to gather results of what I did well and what i didn't do well. Some of the questions may be if you do Tae-kwon Do would this video be helpful for remembering basic theory? Would you like there to be another video like this but on more advanced theory? did you like the style of how it was made/filmed/edited? these are just a few for example. I will also ask verbally some of my Friends at Taekwon-do what they think to get a more down to earth answer as i know from previous experiences questionnaires don't always allow you to right exactly what you would like to as it might mean diverting from the question. Then using all these results i some up what i think i did well and not so and then justify why i people said what they say in the results.
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