Final Reflection for Film/TV 2

Today is the screening night which means the ends up with the course Film/Tv 2, I had such a great time to work as a team, I love working with people, you have so much to learn from them, and also put yourself in a professional field. I have to say there are so many peers are so outstanding, and i want to approve myself as a outstanding person. But in another way, the most biggest challenge is to defeat yourself, not compared with others. You can be your own winner.

–Not confident enough: I think I am quite confident enough compared to my first year in uni, but in this sem, i still feel like i am not confident enough, because in our team, Taylor and Rebecca, they are so energetic and confident, they are expressing their ideas and three of us are sort of listening to the idea and accepting the ideas they have. I rarely express my ideas in fron of them because i am still afraid of being rejected. Through the process of being a team, I am getting confident in terms of sharing ideas, scheduling things, and communicating with them. The most encouragement for me is the time I was the director for Market lane, I had confident that i can do it better and try to deal with the problems we had. And finally i did, at least, for me, it is a big challenge but also the biggest encouragement.  Another encouragement is editing, five of us actually havent touched the final cut pro for a long time, and we are not deeply understand how to use the FCP. I was quite useless during the pre-editing, because i felt like they would do it, even though without me. However, my mind seems to be changed under the circumstance of facing different kinds of problems. I started to deeply dig into the fcp and try to use it as much as i can, Practise makes perfect. I finally can help them with the editing, like different kinds of functions we can use or any other issues.

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Final EDITING

This week, we had so intense time to come down the editing suites and do the editing together, it had so much fun in editing because we can sort of dealing with the problems under five people. Before this week, we were editing individually or two or three people, we could not organise the most of time that five of us can get together. Therefore, the editing result might be disagree by one of us, or totally redo it.

We have so many problems has to be sorted out, in terms of the audio level, the chapter transition, color grading and the music. We are kind of sorting each issue one per day, it has so much to o but we are all having a common is that try to finish one part for today. I think the color grading is such a big problem, especially for the introduction, some of the shots are so dark, so we cannot do too much color grading, because the scene would become blur when you did a big change,there is another issue that the lighting are all different in scene by scene, in order to keep it continuity, we have to do each sequence individually, and cannot do the paste attributes. This is quite annoying, and we spent so much on it. I know that we tried our best to fix, and i have learned that keep the lighting continuity is so important.

Music is another big issue for us, we are trying to use the music in the beginning part when al the barista crossing arms, and for the ending credits. We were trying to find as much music as we can, but none of them are suitable for that beginning part, we are more likely to find the music that bright, bouncy and follow the tempo. we decided to our original idea “Mind your manners by Chiddy Bang, but the issue is that we have to get the permission from the producer otherwise it defends the copyright. However, at the end of the day, we still have not received any email from the producer, we have no any road to walk, so we decide to use it at least for the screening night.

Through this semester, I have encountered so much problems that even more than last semester, i think it might be a good thing, because it is a learning process, i have learned a lot through the problems solving process. In the future, it might be more challenge waiting for me, but now i am kind of preparing the challenge and keep going with what i am confident with.

Film/TV 2 ENDS! !!

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IM Final Self assessment

 

Attendance: HD

I have to say I would be there in every class as possible as i can. This is quite important that we attended class every time, because i  got the sense of the progress of the project and also got more comments from the tutor. It is quite distractive and not continuous if i missed one class, even though the team member was kind of passing the main ideas to me,it would be better that you were there during the class, you  experienced what you have learned through the process.

For the group meeting,  I would be there 100 percent, and i have to i did quite a lot in our project in terms of the time contribution.

Regular post: D

In these 6 weeks after the mid term break, My post are more focusing on the process of our participatory project, I keep updating my blog minimum 1 for a week, basically its about my thoughts in participatory project.This is also the place that I have some reflection on our project.

I am not kind of person love to write the post, always struggling since the network media course. I still try my best to write the things down. I wont be a blogger anyway, hahaha, just joking.

As a social media maker: HD

I gave myself HD for this criteria, because i have learned so much and clearly understand what we can learn from this course, I have been put more effort on being a media maker in ABC pool,  It was the first time heard about Mypool from this course, I just knew that it is a professional media platform and many ABC editors are active in this platform. Once I uploaded a image called” feeling be loved” which has so much comments and feedback from the editors from Mypool. It was so surprised me and I would love to contribute more and exposure myself more in this platform. I was trying to upload as much as images that pretty much presenting myself as a photographer who love to observe the beauty in the life. Two of my images were putting on the main page of Mypool. For the effort that i have do in our participatory, I was charge of the exposure of our project in ABC pool, I got a lot of comments and response from the ABC editor. Moreover, i became a featured person in ABC pool main page. The process i have been done which has so many to talk about:

–seeding my contents with my own photography, make a sense of what the project about.

–using my exposure to get more attention from others

–comments on other people’s works, and then put the link of our page under the comments.

–keep touch with the ABC pool, and get more advices from them.

Total: HD

In this semester, I have learned a lot to be a media maker. For previous course like network media and integrated media 1, i did nt really put too much attention on it, because i really had no idea why we have to learn this kind of courses, there was no point that we can actually use it in the actual media career. However, this course really helped me a lot in terms of the awareness of being a media maker, and the advantage of being a media maker. You never know how big influence the social media is, and how you can use the social media as the way of promoting project, advertising,etc. It is a huge market, and we never gonna miss it!

Thanks so much for Nadia, You are so kind to us, and i dont really think you are like a tutor but more like a friend, its good for us, because we would like to listen to your teaching and suggestions in a efficient way. thanks again:)

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Final week for Editing

This is final week we are going to finish our final work, it is kind of scary and intense. It seems like we have so many works that havent finished yet. The editing suites is going to be my anther home. We got so many advices from peers, Paul and Robin. I have to say there is always a bright way that waiting for us but in order to arrive there, we still have to pay more effort on it.

For Market lane part:

* I don’t like the black footage at the start of him walking into the café. Although it is implied the lights aren’t on yet and he is setting up for the day, there is no showing of him turning on the lights etc so it just looks like super dark and cold footage. It is ok the part with his footsteps, we can brighten this up but I think the opening of the door etc needs to show him turning on the lights when he walks in otherwise is way too dark.

* Don’t know if I like the little flash to the timer when he is making the coffee. I don’t think it is relevant, and it isn’t on for long enough so you can hardly see what it is. If you guys want to keep it, keep it up for longer. I just have always thought this looks out of place

* This whole café seems very cold and dull in colour and I think this is something we need to be conscious of when we colour grade as we don’t want it to be cold and grey

* There is a shot of Mico making coffee about two thirds of the way in and I think it is a new shot. The camera is positioned about the machine and you can see all the coffee cups. This shot goes on for too long.

* I think the whole Market Lane sequence goes on for too long

* I want to see Mico say at the start “my name is Mico… and I worked at market lane? Do you want me to include market lane?” I thought that was very good and I think it should go at the start somewhere.

 

 

 

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MyPool Reflection

In this semester, the most efficient thing I have done is working as a media maker in Mypool which gives me so much encouragement in the media platform. It was the first time heard about Mypool from this course, I just knew that it is a professional media platform and many ABC editors are active in this platform. From the beginning, I did not pay too much attention on it.

Once I uploaded a image called” feeling be loved” which has so much comments and feedback from the editors from Mypool. It was so surprised me and I would love to contribute more and exposure myself more in this platform. I was trying to upload as much as images that pretty much presenting myself as a photographer who love to observe the beauty in the life. Two of my images were putting on the main page of Mypool.

When our group started the project. I paid much attention on Mypool, I was keeping in touch with an ABC editor and he loves my works. I have ask some questions about how to organize a good project and get much exposure as much as I can. He told me to seeding the contents, and also comments on other people’s works, and try to get more attention.

I started to seed my project with my images, and then I start to ask someone’s works. I would comment on their works and then put our project links under the comments. This is one of the strategy that really successful.

Most suprisinly, I got a message from an editor in Pool team, he loves my works and ask my permission to put my profile as a featured person. I was so surprised and I hope I can be more active in this platform even our course is finished.

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Final Piece

This is what we have show in our final piece, that connect all the contribution images together and make a lovely story about your twinkie moment. In this participatory project, we have paid much effort on seeding contents,contributing and interacting. It is quite fun experience for me, and i would love to keep doing some project like that in the future carrer, it would definitely works well, as long as you have awareness of being a media maker, you have to experience the product first and then pass it to more people.

This is the final piece I have done!

<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/51197187″>IM video</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user10693319″>vickiedeng</a&gt; on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>

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Main Points for Mypool parts

Research

Why we focus on MyPool:

• Get response from the ABC Editor
•  Professional field (comments, advices)
•  Interactive project (able to put in their project and also they can join to our group)
•  Have a professional view in commenting on others work and ask their permission for adding to project.

 

—Call out: MyPool is a professional field for media maker to participate projects, and for the call out, we have clarified the different target audience would be, so we should very clear for the project outline and the purpose of doing project.

—Seeding contents (snapshot of community editor’s advice)

—Exposure

1. Ask for their permission and also comment on their work in a professional way, it also encourages us to critics the works.

2.  Comment on their works with the web page of “twinkie moment” Get their attention of our project and ask them to contribute more images.

—-Some active community editor (snapshot)

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Start Editing

When we start editing, we have a lot of works to be finished, because we have three chapters and every chapter has to be perfect but connect with each chapter, it is kind of hard for us to edit, its not like the first sem, we were sort of doing the editing in terms of the script, but for the documentary, we have no any script, we have to listen for the interview part again and again, and ask ourselves whether is is suitable and useful for our doc. We have so many footages and sometimes feel so depressed and tiring to see all of the footages, and turn out to be hopeless situation.  The most difficult pat is that we had not organised the interview very well, so there are so many footages are absolutely useless and wastes of time. Especially in ‘il fornio’ chapter, there are so many footages we already have, but go through all the footages we have, there are not too many shots we are happy with, and the ambient sounds are even louder than the barista’s voice. We sorted of hanging out with doing things without planned, thats the most horrible things in shooting. However, luckily, we were figuring out what kind of footages we need during the editing, so we still have time to reshoot and fixed with the problems we had before.

Everything has to be planned out before shooting!!!

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