Finally its our final week of the semester, and we all were very excited for the presentation. Started with Robert, the project manager and continue by the first group showing their final production and present individually.
I felt satisfied for my presentation and everyone did really good job for that as well. All presentation adds on by the comments and advices of lecturer and other students which helps us to improve for our next presentation.
Finally, I felt happy for finishing all the assignments and projects in time, and done well with Aaron for this Library welcome tour. Grateful for all the friends in this class which helps a lot and given supports all this while.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Week 12: The final rush
Lets start with our progress, we changes a few things in our video include replace the shot of the meeting room (due to not having their talent release form) and do some touch up on the arrangement of the whole videos.
Thanks for Wan Ching help us design the name layout of 3 library which makes the video looks more decent and professional.
During the week, I tried my best in helping out my fellow friends in the problem they face for example final cut issues or after effects technical issues to make thing goes on track. Hopefully everyone would have a good final product to present our best for the client.
I am quite happy with all the support and help given by everyone in class as well. We are going to have a presentation to talk about what is each individual role in different group, what problems we face and how we solve it. This is a good way of learning because I believe everyone learn from mistakes and while sharing between class will give others a guidelines of avoid/prevent or to solve a problem when we encounter.
Good luck guys!
Thanks for Wan Ching help us design the name layout of 3 library which makes the video looks more decent and professional.
During the week, I tried my best in helping out my fellow friends in the problem they face for example final cut issues or after effects technical issues to make thing goes on track. Hopefully everyone would have a good final product to present our best for the client.
I am quite happy with all the support and help given by everyone in class as well. We are going to have a presentation to talk about what is each individual role in different group, what problems we face and how we solve it. This is a good way of learning because I believe everyone learn from mistakes and while sharing between class will give others a guidelines of avoid/prevent or to solve a problem when we encounter.
Good luck guys!
Week 11: The V1 video showing
Its time to show our client Ms Joanne our version 1 video in our class. Each group showed their own masterpiece, Ms Joanne, Mr Eric and Robert review our video and gave few comments and valuable advice to make things better.
As for our group, Joanne suggested that we should include all campuses' library into one welcome tour video, Mr Eric strongly agreed with that too. After received the email from Mr Eric, I straight away head off to his office to get Alice Springs library photo and copied in my pen drive.
Meet up with Aaron at night to continue our video editing, passed him the photos and Palmerston videos, lead him in which part of clips we could remove to add in the photos and Palmerston video. This progress just took around 1 hour to finish and polish up the whole thing include putting the names of each campus library.
Cant wait to show the final product that we had done.
As for our group, Joanne suggested that we should include all campuses' library into one welcome tour video, Mr Eric strongly agreed with that too. After received the email from Mr Eric, I straight away head off to his office to get Alice Springs library photo and copied in my pen drive.
Meet up with Aaron at night to continue our video editing, passed him the photos and Palmerston videos, lead him in which part of clips we could remove to add in the photos and Palmerston video. This progress just took around 1 hour to finish and polish up the whole thing include putting the names of each campus library.
Cant wait to show the final product that we had done.
Week 10: Another replacement class
This week was another busy week.
Tuesday, I went to Damien office to get all the equipment myself on 1pm because we said we are going to gather at library on 2pm. I carried all the equipments to library to meet with Shelly and we take off right on time.
After half an hour ride to Palmerston, Shelly showed me around and most importantly the Palmerston library. I was amazed by the beautiful scene of the campus and the library just located right beside the big pond. I am thankful to Shelly helps me a lot in the whole shooting progress, which makes things faster than doing it alone.
Showed Mr Eric our "piece" after doing the de-interlacing and the adjust back the original logo. After that Mr Eric suggested our class that we can use Keree and Jerry group's library logo for lead in and lead out to have a standard lead in/out for whole class.
Tuesday, I went to Damien office to get all the equipment myself on 1pm because we said we are going to gather at library on 2pm. I carried all the equipments to library to meet with Shelly and we take off right on time.
After half an hour ride to Palmerston, Shelly showed me around and most importantly the Palmerston library. I was amazed by the beautiful scene of the campus and the library just located right beside the big pond. I am thankful to Shelly helps me a lot in the whole shooting progress, which makes things faster than doing it alone.
Showed Mr Eric our "piece" after doing the de-interlacing and the adjust back the original logo. After that Mr Eric suggested our class that we can use Keree and Jerry group's library logo for lead in and lead out to have a standard lead in/out for whole class.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Week 9: Anzac replacement class
This is a replacement class due to Anzac day, and well it is closer to the end of semester. Due to our previous mac lab occupied by other Friday class student, we changed to another mac lab which does not have much software like final cut, after effects to continue our projects.
We showed our video to Mr Eric as usual, he pointed few problem. Firstly is the interlacing problem of our video, the disturbing line while there's motion in the shot, so we will have to use the de-interlacing effects to blur up the interlacing lines. Secondly is the CDU logo problem, which the size are different from the original one, we will have to replace with the one in the sharing folder which given by Mr Eric.
Since our video are almost done, Shelly suggested me for getting some shot of Palmerston library and include them into the welcome tour video. We plan our trip on coming Tuesday thanks to Shelly willing to offer us a ride on that day, which helps us a lot in transport issue. Then, I went to Damien office again to book for a camera and a tripod on Tuesday afternoon.
Wish this extra effort can improve my skill in shooting and editing.
Hard work never did anyone any harm
We showed our video to Mr Eric as usual, he pointed few problem. Firstly is the interlacing problem of our video, the disturbing line while there's motion in the shot, so we will have to use the de-interlacing effects to blur up the interlacing lines. Secondly is the CDU logo problem, which the size are different from the original one, we will have to replace with the one in the sharing folder which given by Mr Eric.
Since our video are almost done, Shelly suggested me for getting some shot of Palmerston library and include them into the welcome tour video. We plan our trip on coming Tuesday thanks to Shelly willing to offer us a ride on that day, which helps us a lot in transport issue. Then, I went to Damien office again to book for a camera and a tripod on Tuesday afternoon.
Wish this extra effort can improve my skill in shooting and editing.
Hard work never did anyone any harm
Monday, May 16, 2011
Week 8: Shooting & Editing
This week in class we talk about our shooting progress. As in our group, we manage to finish up to 80% of our shooting and we will have to re-shoot few bad shoot and get some extra good shots. We stay in our class for like an hour after update Mr Eric of our progress and we continue on our shooting.
It has been a while for me to be a cameraman, took me quite sometime to familiarize from holding to moving the camera without making shaking shot. It is quite disappointing that we do not have the steadicam accessory in Uni, so its hard for us to take a moving shot, so we decided to shoot most of the shot using tripod and dolly to make it a smooth and still shot.
After we get all the necessary shots, I get all the equipments to Aaron's room to export out the video. We face our first problem as we tried to copy all the clips straight from the memory card without using the line in capture in final cut, which all our video clips quality are bad and you can clearly see the line while we panning or zooming. Thanks to Denise told us that we will have to use that function to get a better quality clips. Aaron then play his role of an editor to show his editing skill using FCP, I sit beside him to direct him in arranging the sequence of each video and the transition effects between.
Mr Eric passed me 20+ different genre of music and sound effect CDs to pick one of them for our video background music. I have picked few CD which the themes are closer to what we want, and Aaron tried out a few music and we finally get one suitable and match our video.
Continue our editing progress ...
It has been a while for me to be a cameraman, took me quite sometime to familiarize from holding to moving the camera without making shaking shot. It is quite disappointing that we do not have the steadicam accessory in Uni, so its hard for us to take a moving shot, so we decided to shoot most of the shot using tripod and dolly to make it a smooth and still shot.
After we get all the necessary shots, I get all the equipments to Aaron's room to export out the video. We face our first problem as we tried to copy all the clips straight from the memory card without using the line in capture in final cut, which all our video clips quality are bad and you can clearly see the line while we panning or zooming. Thanks to Denise told us that we will have to use that function to get a better quality clips. Aaron then play his role of an editor to show his editing skill using FCP, I sit beside him to direct him in arranging the sequence of each video and the transition effects between.
Mr Eric passed me 20+ different genre of music and sound effect CDs to pick one of them for our video background music. I have picked few CD which the themes are closer to what we want, and Aaron tried out a few music and we finally get one suitable and match our video.
Continue our editing progress ...
Week 6/7: first class after holiday
First class after one week holiday, manage to finish the story board with Aaron and plan for next step.
In class, each of our groups presented their storyboard and gets suggestions/advices from Mr Eric and Robert to improve. In presentation, we talk about the details including shots, style, music in our production, Mr Eric suggested that storyboards have to be more detail, including time per shot, angle, background music, voice over etc.
After that, we get back to our small groups and make time planning for this week, I created a timetable and gave to Aaron as his time are more flexible than mine. In the meantime, Robert drop by our group to check out our group status, as usual I told him everything are going smooth and I will contact him if there's any problem.
After finalize our storyboard, I went to Damien office to borrow equipment.
Equipments:
2 Video Camera
2 Tripod
1 Dolly
We going to get it and start shooting on this coming Thursday! Excited!!! Good luck for every groups.
In class, each of our groups presented their storyboard and gets suggestions/advices from Mr Eric and Robert to improve. In presentation, we talk about the details including shots, style, music in our production, Mr Eric suggested that storyboards have to be more detail, including time per shot, angle, background music, voice over etc.
After that, we get back to our small groups and make time planning for this week, I created a timetable and gave to Aaron as his time are more flexible than mine. In the meantime, Robert drop by our group to check out our group status, as usual I told him everything are going smooth and I will contact him if there's any problem.
After finalize our storyboard, I went to Damien office to borrow equipment.
Equipments:
2 Video Camera
2 Tripod
1 Dolly
We going to get it and start shooting on this coming Thursday! Excited!!! Good luck for every groups.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Week 5: Library Services Overview and assigning of groups
This week we discussed about all library services and break the services into 5 different groups: Distance Services,Learning Precincts & Wireless area, Short Term Loans (STL), Printing, Borrowing, Special Collection, Liaison Librarians/Services, Research Services Coordinator, Welcome tour.
When we are asked to choose the topic that we are interested, without hesitation I pick welcome tour because I feel it is more to doing cool stuff of video shooting and editing than doing tutorial clips. Aaron joined me as a team as he is interested to be involve in this as well.
We had given task which is to draw out our storyboard and create a rough idea of what we want to create. Aaron and I have quite similar ideas of making this type of videos which is fast shot/movement promo.
Continuing in drawing our storyboard.
When we are asked to choose the topic that we are interested, without hesitation I pick welcome tour because I feel it is more to doing cool stuff of video shooting and editing than doing tutorial clips. Aaron joined me as a team as he is interested to be involve in this as well.
We had given task which is to draw out our storyboard and create a rough idea of what we want to create. Aaron and I have quite similar ideas of making this type of videos which is fast shot/movement promo.
Continuing in drawing our storyboard.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Week 4 : The new beginning
This is another new week, begin off with video and audio quiz, after quiz session we begin to discuss for our coming project which is creating a promo video for CDU library and Eric passed the session to Robert which will be the leader of our shooting in this, he explain and share what is his expectation and talk about what we will be doing individually or in a small group. We talk about each of our expertise and what program we are familiar with. In the meantime, we are called up to find either good or bad video tutorials to differentiate the good and bad element of a video.
This is the one which I feel its better to watch especially when target audience are students.
It is funny, informative and simple
bad tutorial
simply because of the noise of the background
hopefully can get more involve in this coming project. Teamwork !
This is the one which I feel its better to watch especially when target audience are students.
It is funny, informative and simple
bad tutorial
simply because of the noise of the background
hopefully can get more involve in this coming project. Teamwork !
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Week 3: all about audio
This week its all about audio, Eric shares to us basic audio includes how is a sound created, he gives an example by using a music pot thingy and hit it to make the sound, the pot will create sound by continuously spin the surface with another object. It was amazing that that pot could create 3 sound in one time.
Talk about basic audio editing it is much simpler than the music class one, I learnt how to use new program which is called STP (soundtrack pro), it is a family of final cut pro, which brings some benefits by using that to create/edit a sound than using logic,pro tools or even reason just because STP are straight connected with the files we used in FCP, so whatever we edited in STP will bring direct change to FCP as well. I think it would be very efficient way rather than copy here and there to fix the audio with the video.
So, lesson of the day is to remove the noise out of a sound clip, by replacing them using the ambience sound in the track. We will just need to copy the previous suitable ambience sound and replace the noise to make the sound better. There are few tips that i learn today which quite similar to music production class as a reminder, its the 0 point of a sound, we do not simply cut a sound as it would bring clicks or even pops, so the best way is cut it on the 0 level of the sound wave which is the end of a wave.
Well, that wraps up today lesson. Below is the lesson that we did.
Talk about basic audio editing it is much simpler than the music class one, I learnt how to use new program which is called STP (soundtrack pro), it is a family of final cut pro, which brings some benefits by using that to create/edit a sound than using logic,pro tools or even reason just because STP are straight connected with the files we used in FCP, so whatever we edited in STP will bring direct change to FCP as well. I think it would be very efficient way rather than copy here and there to fix the audio with the video.
So, lesson of the day is to remove the noise out of a sound clip, by replacing them using the ambience sound in the track. We will just need to copy the previous suitable ambience sound and replace the noise to make the sound better. There are few tips that i learn today which quite similar to music production class as a reminder, its the 0 point of a sound, we do not simply cut a sound as it would bring clicks or even pops, so the best way is cut it on the 0 level of the sound wave which is the end of a wave.
Well, that wraps up today lesson. Below is the lesson that we did.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Week 2: Intro to F.C.P ~
Its another day for NMD302, teaches about final cut pro something that I am avoiding for several years. Well Eric starts off of explaining what are the steps of the normal workflow, and always always starts with a planning, I guess that it is the best step to start off to organize things well before we straight onto doing something and might get lost or stuck in the progress. Next, comes to getting media, by shooting videos, or get pictures and videos from other sources. After that we will have to build up our story, arrange it and start editing it. We used cut in adobe premiere but in FCP we used trim to seperate the video between, then we will put in some effects and transitions continued by adding text/translation and some extra effects with it. Audio would be the last one to edit, but for me, in some video editing such as commercial/trailer/pilot i would normally use music as editing background to make the video transition according to the beat of music. I believe that would bring a greater effect and music effects only would be the last one to put up.
So this time Eric gave us assignment on using FCP to edit some video clips by putting transition between them to look smooth than one clip jump to another clip might look very jumpy. And this is it.
Monday, February 28, 2011
First day of NMD302 28/2/2011
Begin my University life again, my first class NMB302 its all about video which is my favourite and expertise! *Yay*
Starting up with some self introduction among the class, quite some number of [orang] Malaysia in the room.
①Our lecturer
Name: Eric Fassbender
Age: Remain unknown
Sex: Male
Office: Orange 11.2.17
Email: eric.fassbender@cdu.edu.au
Hp: 0889466836
First impression: Friendly lecturer n a clever one (PHD holder (⊙o⊙)!!)
He started off by introducing all about NMD302.... gonna use MAC to do my editing ><>
Assignments coming!!! Production of Promo Video for CDU library... It is a BIG BIG group to work with, and I wish I could be as active as possible in the group. Mr Lecturer show us the past video done by previous semester about advertisement for our faculty, it was okay but the sounds a lil disappointing. We will have to work hard for this coming video to make it perfect, we need more good transition effects, nice angle, great movement shots and CG for this coming one, I am excited and looking forward for this.
Oh by the way, our group have a new leader, ahh i forget the name d. But hope that it would be a great leader and give 100% commitment in group. No one else dares to take this heavy opportunity i guess, good luck to him.
that ends up my day in class....
twisted by Iz
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