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Okay..Today’s lec is quite interesting..i’ve jot down some things that i find it important to myself n my own understanding.

First of all, all meaning can only be differenciate by differences.

Vernacular Video

-informal speech or language/slang.

-informal video, slang video

-it will be small scale

-personal

-change rapidly

-in the “know” brief

-on the negative it will be literal & unsophisticated

Institution media practice- provide their own definitions and their own justification

*less formal

*quicker to grab&borrow

*firmly within the popular

*simple rules, which usually revolved arnd audience maximisation

*conservative

*inward looking

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YEAH~~i’ve finally made a video by myself by using eZeddia~n it’s fun!!

today’s tute is about butons n linkings! tat’s cool~

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this is taken during my work..it’s in a shop on swanston..which sells hello kitty.

i’ve added video and some still images, and i’ve used some effects from final cut pro~but this time i don really like the video, because the quality of the video clips is BAD. well, cux i took it by using my mobile.

Final Cut Pro

In my video, i’ve uses the effects from final cut pro, and i’ve done something that i’ve never done before, which is layering~which i find it very interesting! im LOVING it~

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Finally im able to upload my task 2~~which is circle and round.

this task are all made by still images, and effects are added in the video.

Ross McElwee At Work

In this article, basically it’s an interview with Ross McElwee, who is the director of Time Indefinite and Sherman’s March. McElwee is a contemplative filmmaker who focuses on the people and events of his life and adds a new dimension to cinema verite by including a voice-over to accompany almost every scene. “Cinema verite”, which means “truth cinema”, innovative filmmakers should personalize their subject to achieve “cinema verite”. Cinema verite built upon foundations of documentary film by adding images from the filmmaker’s actual experiences. They first introduce what’s traditional cinema. Traditional cinema is film that provides the viewer with a portrait of fictitious persons and places, which allow the viewer to understand the filmmaker intention. In a documentary film, they use images and stories of real life as its subject. In McElwee’s works, it can be describe as being more self-reflective. He tries to make his film more open up to the world at large by allowing other people to occupy to screen, to have important roles in the film.

“Don’t you ever just watch?”

Documentary about “Crisis movement” recorded by members of the Drew Associates in the early 1960’s are known as cinema verite. One of the documentaries was “ Don’t Look Back”, directed by D.A Pennebaker and co-produce by Richard Leacock, both Drew Associates expatriots, which is an important part of that body works. In “Don’t Look Back”, they chronicles Bob Dylan’s triumphant 1965 tour of England on the heels of his third album, The Times They Are A-Changin’. The documentary follows in the tradition of Robert Drew’s Primary, a documentary heralded as “a revolutionary step and a breaking point in the recording of reality in cinema”. The stylistic elements of the film are restless, wandering movements of lightweight, hand-held cameras, blurred, grainy images of fast, monochrome film. One of the primary philosophical underpinnings of cinema verite is American liberalism, the belief of “enquiring and critical press”. The press is viewed as a sort social watchdog.

Fascinating Fascism

In this article it is bout Leni Riefenstahl, who has a great relationship with the Nazi German government during the 19-century. Riefenstahl is great cinematic artists whose stylistic flair and contribution to film form are to be appreciated. Riefenstahl is a photographer as well, pictures that was took by her always shows some version of an ideal presence, a kind of imperishable beauty. During the 1930’s, Riefenstahl was sprung to international fame as a film director. Riefenstahl did not first participate in silent films, and then when sound came in, she then begin to direct her own films, in which she took the starring role. Riefenstahl also directed feature films, and her 1^st feature film was released in 1932, The Blue Light. The force of her work is precisely in the continuity of its political and aesthetic ideas.

What is a documentary for?

The Lumiere brothers are the first who created the documentary. So what is a documentary for? According to John Grierson, documentary is a form of media to sent information, to educate, and propaganda as well as creative treatment of reality. During the 1970s, in the western society, filmmakers made documentaries challenging the establishment. From then, documentary became a source for the lesbian and gay filmmakers to speak for themselves and to deal with their lifestyles and also the gay politics. Making a documentary allows people to express their expression and thinking. In one of the article, they said, “every film is a documentary”, and there’s documentaries of wish fulfillment, which is friction, and the other is documentaries of social representation. I personally think that documentary is a source for social representation. Those film will then convey truths if the audience choose to believe. Documentaries of social representation provide aspects of the world we already inhabit and share. Through documentaries, the filmmakers speak for the interest of others, represent the views of individuals, groups, institutions, and also some may be part of the historical world.

Sound in Film

i’ve go thru the dosseir for this week..and there’s a few things that i personally thinks that it’s important~so let’s talk about SOUND in FILM.

While first of all, there’s two things that i’ve already knew since foundation studies, which is diegetic sound and non-diegetic sound.

Diegetic Sound:

Which is the sound that we hear from the film are recorded or originally from the film, another word it is already there when they are filming.

Whereas Non-diegetic sound is:

The sound that is not originally from the movie, which means the sound is recorded and insert after the filming porcess, (eg: sound effects or sound track.)

Sight & Hearing (From Bresson,R)

The key idea for this article is:

1.What we see from our eyes must not be duplicate by what we hear.

2.If the image can clearly express the message, then sound are not needed.

3.When a sound can replace an image, then cut the image or neutralize it.

4.Image and sound must not support each other, but must work each in turn through a sort of relay.

Creating the Sound Design (From Alten,s, Audio in Media)

The three stage of the Production Process:

Preproduction -> Production -> Postproduction

Preproduction: Material is evaluated, logistical planing are taken care.

Production: Material is recorded on tape, which is during the filming period.

Postproduction: Recorded material is processed, edited, mixed into its final form.

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This is the Lenny video that i’ve edited~~ it took me about 1hr to complete the editing. I find it quite interesting editing video using Final Cut Pro, and i love editing!! it’s fun, although i have to look thru the same piece of video or scene again and again, but this could help me to get to choose the right scene that fits the video and also the script.

There is a few steps that i think it is important in order to complete this task,

1. READ the script properly!! so that we will be able to know what starts first and which scene is the most suitable scene.

2. Look through all the shots we’ve got.

3. Think!!!

4. Start putting the scene together.

5. After all the combination, WATCH it for at least THREE times!! (well i’ve go thru for more then 3 times)

I kinda like my product, other then the lacking of effects and abit prob of the sound, i think the scene fits into each other quite well, which makes me happy with it!

For Final Cut pro, i think it is actually not a hard program to use (may b because im really interested in editing video), the longer time i spend using it, i get more use with the program. Parts that i need to learn more and discover more is how to put in effects, and what else final cut pro can do.

Other than final cut pro, i think i need to learn how to read the SCRIPT.!! because sometimes i have a bit problem of reading the script, it’s abit difficult to understand some of the short cuts..(i’ll go thru the dossier)

ANOTHER PROBLEM…THE TIME!!!! my video should be 2 mins long??? did i over cut it??