final project: production & screening

The day of the shooting of our final project was crazy. Our group met at 4.30 pm to start setting up everything and we finished the shooting at 8.30 am. But it was worth it and I really like working in a team. It was the first time I got to do a group project since I am studying here at UCSD.

Building the four different sets, set up the camera and the lights, repeat the scenes over and over again, time every scene... It was a really tiring night but it was worth it. Even if I had to act and acting it is not exactly my strongest skill.

After the shooting Leo edit the video (the visual part of it) and then we met to do the sound design. It was harder than I expected. Since the scenes were already edited, without the clapperboard part, I had a hard time to sync the video with the audio. However I used the original sound from the camera as a reference. After it, I had to choose what room had to be louder in every scene, in order to get the audience's attention to that quadrant. Then I added sound effects, such as noise from the TV, the Super Mario video game (with the game over part), Facebook chat notification, Facebook video call, ringtone, cellphone vibrating, electricity noises, etc.

It was really exciting watching in the screening day. We could see all the details of every living room, something that it was kind of hard in the HD version. I felt proud of this project, giving the short amount of time (less than a week). Also the fact that I got to work in a team, instead of doing the project by myself, made the things easier in a certain way, since everyone could focus in only one thing and do it well. I guess that is how the film industry works :)

Here's our final project, in HD version:

4k : video

This was the video I made for our 4K assignment with Alyssa, Nick and Heidi. We had some technical problems during the shooting: we did not have the right lens, we did not know if we should use a tripod or not, the magnets were not strong enough, etc.

However the result end up being interesting and more abstract that the examples I showed a few posts ago. Also, watching it in a big screen gave us a completely kind of feeling. After the screening, I felt like I wanted to work again with ferrofluid but I did not have enough time to do it by this week (I had to order more liquid and to find someone that has macro lens). 

After Spring break I was thinking that I would like to do a 4K video again with ferrofluid. This time I would like to use a tripod and macro lens and get better magnets. I would also like to try to get less blurry images and to make the video look less abstract.

final project: ideas

For the final project, I've decided to join some of my classmates and do a group final. I am going to be working with Leo, Nick, Allan, Tommy, Donna, Courtney and Nathan. 

Today we had a meeting in which we discussed that we are going to do and what every member of the group is responsible for. The idea is to tile 4 HD videos to make a 4K. We are going to shoot in four different living rooms. In every living room, different kind of people are going to live there: a couple, a single man, a lonely girl and a social media girl. The idea is to give a doll house feeling and to try to make the neighbors interact with each other.

The script is still been developed. The shooting are going to be on Wednesday and Thursday/Friday. Me and Leo are going to be responsible for the editing. I may probably be also one of the actresses (we are going to try to be the actors of our video). 

I'm really excited to work on this project and to see the final result!