wendy seto (0348805): Video and Sound Production: Final Project

VSP60104 Video and Sound Production 25.8.2021 - 5.12.2021 (Week 1 - Week 15)

Wendy Seto / 0348805
VSP60104 Video and Sound Production / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Final Project

INSTRUCTIONS

FINAL PROJECT

Week 1:

1. Netizen Tercinta by Aulion

fig 1.1 stop motion #1 25/8/21

Aulion is a famous Indonesian stop motion creator. He is a very creative and talented director who loves to use a lot of colours in his work. As you can see from the thumbnail of the video itself, he mainly use primary colours which represent emotions, energy and passion. This stop motion is referring to two types of Indonesian netizens which is really iconic. The graphical element he uses in most of his stop motion videos are drawings, paper craft and himself.

2. Blank Space Barbie Stop Motion by Sam & Mickey ft. Georgia Merry

fig 1.2 stop motion #2 25/8/21

Barbie is my childhood and I still love to play with it sometimes now and then. I used to set up a whole scenario in my head and pretend like I am the doll and this is my world. Watching these stop motions makes me want to be a kid again. This stop motion is parody-ing Taylor Swift's music video 'Blank Space' but with barbie dolls. I really like the cinematography in this stop motion, it has an amazing control of the depth-of-field for every shots. The colours are really nice too, it kinda has that matte vintage vibe. I wonder how did the creator manage to collect all the properties though?

3. Harry Potter in 90 Seconds (LEGO Stop Motion)

fig 1.3 stop motion #3 25/8/21

Okay, this last one is on ANOTHER LEVEL. I cannot stop watching it, it is literally the definition of the word masterpiece. The cinematography, colours, transitions, sound, everything is just perfectly wrapped together. It is really entertaining and visually pleasing. It makes me want to collect Harry Potter LEGOs so badly!! And now I am binge watching these stop motions, after all this time? Always.

Week 9:

Below is my proposal for Final Project.

fig 2.1 final project proposal.pdf 20/10/21

Week 13:

I went to the beach early in the morning to avoid the crowd so I can shoot peacefully without many distractions and I took so many pictures like more than 500 approximately. However, I failed to take pictures of the dragon in the ocean because it happened to be not possible. The waves were very big and the pokemon toy that I was using almost being drifted away several times that I do not want to take any other risks. Due to this issue, I thought I will have to change the overall narrative but turns out it still work without the dragon part.

fig 3.1 RAW shots 15/11/21

I proceed to combining the pictures into a stop motion in the next day. The part that took the most time is selecting which shot to use because I happened to take so many similar and identical ones and the fact that I am very indecisive made it even harder. Believe it or not, it took me days to sort them and finalize.

I did all my post-production in Final Cut Pro. I ends up creating so many presets for this specific project because somehow all of my shots had different lighting. Some of them were over exposed while some were under exposed, the same preset will not work so well unless I am okay to leave it "unmatched" or "unblended", but I am not, and I am pretty sure that Mr. Martin will not too.