EXPERIMENTAL
SOUND.
In order to amplify this effect, I have combined music and colour to make the audience feel a certain way. This was proven to work by my experiment as I do feel shift in emotions while watching the video.
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COLOUR.
LIGHTING
In this practical experiment, I tried implementing artificial music into the scene to make it seem like there was a musical happening. As I get more closer to the room where the jazz music is coming from, the music gets louder and louder and more clear.
music.
I have taken musical inspiration from the movie "Birdman" and "Moonlight". In this video, there is a mixture of Jazz and Classical music used to portray different emotions.
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GREEN
Suggested feeling of greed and power most suitable for antagonistic character.
emotion.
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RED
Suggested feeling of anger and hatred.
Evaluation.
The auto focus didn't work in the first half of the video due to the scene being really dark at times. Better solution would have been to use manual focus with light on and after the shot is in focus ; turn the lights off.
Moving shots can be really difficult and tricky with some situations and settings. For us, it was finding the perfect platform to station our camera on that can move from front to back without shaking too much. We put our camera on top of a bag that's on a table with books on top so that we can get the correct elevation.
I am proud of the placement of the lights and the sharp focus in the second half of the video. All though while pulling the camera back away from me there was some little shakes which I tried fixing with warp stabiliser but was unsuccessful.
PICTURES
I will be trying my best to somehow creatively add that 90's gangster photo look to my pictures which will make sense in my movie to be there. I took some inspirations from a video by Travis Scott called "JACKBOYS". This video is for his latest album "JACKBOYS" where he has added pictures in his video that looks like it is taken from a polaroid or some old vintage camera and it makes sense for that sequence to be there to add a stylistic look.
Pictures are something I am thinking of implementing in this project. For example, showing other characters the picture of the person they are looking for or setting a bounty on someones head.
The short fim on Travis' channel has been removed, However there was a lot of camera teachniques that I found really helpful for my own project that I can remember and implement that.
This is one of the singles from the album "JACKBOYS" which obviously shares stylistic choice from the short movie. You can see from some clips it seems like the shutter speed is really slow creating light trails that looks really cool and trippy which is also something I want to add to some sequence of my project.
These are the photos I took with my friend's car and bike. I took these pictures as references to help me when I am actually shooting for my project. This is my first time adding cars and bikes into my project, therefore experimenting taking pictures first before filming was really helpful in order for me to understand what looks best through the camera lens and how I can shoot the vehicle.
photography.
I have also used colour-grading to experiment with colours and complimentary colours. For example, Deimo's bike is red so i tired to add more greenish tone to the picture as green is in the opposite side of the colour wheel spectrum.
These were unedited pictures I took of my friend Adam's car while we were shooting another project I had with him.
While I was taking some pictures, I also decided to film his car which can be seen on my 18th Birthday Project posted on the front page of this website. The reason I will be involving cars and bikes into my movie is since this is a gang movie, I also wanted to show the dirty money rich lifestyle they live earning their money from dealing drugs and being reckless.