Video & Sound Production | Final Project
18.06.2025 - 26.07.2025/ Week 9 - Week 14
ID name YANG HANWEN
ID number 0364085
Program Name Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media
UI/UX
Final Project
LIST
INSTRUCTION
LECTURES
Final Project VFX Proposal: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R_eZoiWh1A0yPQrFOYgE24soji-2PCpqLlWxEL5GHA0/edit?slide=id.g1ff18b49f31_1_71#slide=id.g1ff18b49f31_1_71
Story development: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NfUinv4gftnQRsG5uiBdYpxc9BaO6qV8vdydEObf1r4/edit?slide=id.g36784c76364_0_213#slide=id.g36784c76364_0_213
For Animation Students:
Stop motion trial shoot: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nnc7W4vrm_sNFyU6-PX_urPbTGw6Bm4gRlG6nXim_tw/edit?slide=id.g1d0f84e9037_0_0#slide=id.g1d0f84e9037_0_0
Stop motion trial shoot: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nnc7W4vrm_sNFyU6-PX_urPbTGw6Bm4gRlG6nXim_tw/edit?slide=id.g1d0f84e9037_0_0#slide=id.g1d0f84e9037_0_0
FINAL PROJECT
At the beginning, our group's script was like this↓
Then, as mentioned in the Feedback for Week 11 below, Mr. Martin complained that the "secret" in our script was not specific enough. I said that if it was more specific, the duration would be longer than 1 minute, but he still asked, "What is the secret?" I was so fucked💢...Fortunately, Wang JiHeng from the crew noticed that something was wrong, so he came up to Mr. Martin and told him to rework the script and start filming. Then Mr. Martin said OK.
So the following is the clip we filmed in week 12 ↓
Then, I added it. But before exporting, I need to show it to Mr. Martin.
He said, "Now I finally understand?" So he asked me how to modify it. My answer was that I shot a scene in the middle where I had a conflict with my crew members. As shown in scenes 4 and 5 in the storyboard below (even though I didn't draw the storyboard at that time), a hand reached out from the screen and grabbed my collar. This part was shot on green screen and turned into a special effect in Adobe After Effects and inserted into Adobe Premiere Pro. Then he said, "Well, if you can do it, just change it like this."
So after that week, I was "forced" to take the single-pass route. First, in order to complete the above storyboard scenes 4 and 5, I went to the 🏠 of a senior student who had studied this module last year to help me complete the shooting.
Then the following are two retakes for green screen effects.
Then I modified my script as shown below ↓
And to complete scene 5, I asked him to re-record the audio↓.
After post-production editing, special effects synthesis, and a series of operations that I am too lazy to describe in detail...
Then in the last week, which was the 14th week, Martin asked me to shorten the phone call and add subtitles. Then I will improve it as follows↓
Oh, by the way, the following three are the background music I found.
The following is the final version without subtitles in the video.
You have be asking me why I don't add subtitles when you see this. If you want to watch my videos with subtitles, you can also find the one below↓
The reason why I don't want to add subtitles to the video is because... I exported the subtitles below↓
If the link we are asked to submit is a YouTube link...
Submission
📂 Final Project
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19bWb4KTW1nCtgSdcZ_ZtFSD5rhbeId1c?usp=sharing
FEEDBACK
Week 9：This week, Mr. Martin asked us to choose whether to do a stop-motion animation as an individual final project or to choose one, two, or three classmates to form a group for a final project. So I was in a group with Wang JiHeng, and Mr. Martin asked us to choose an item from the tarot deck. We chose the second item, "Justice."
Week 11：This week, I started writing the script. I asked Mr. Martin about the required time and theme. He said that I should use the definitions in the script I chose last time and choose the interpretations to write the script. It should not be too long, only about one minute. The storyboard and other details should be in the PPT of LECTURES above. I wrote a first draft at the beginning. After reading it, Martin asked me, "What secret does the protagonist feel guilty about?" This "secret" must be explained. Then Wang JiHeng called me back when he saw that something was wrong and told Martin that we would revise the script.
Week 13：Then this week, Wang JiHeng and I worked separately. Why? Because 4. Mr. Martin said that we did it wrong and there were no special effects shots. We found our own special effects, but Martin thought that adding transitions, filters, or green screen keying effects, which are something that everyone can do, is not called special effects. Then Wang JiHeng suggested that we work separately. I said, "Wouldn't it be like we each do stop-motion animation after we split up?" So I asked Martin again. In the end, he re-shot and re-edited it by himself, and I continued to follow up (change) the progress of my work.
Week 14：Despite MARTIN CHONG YUH LIN’s nitpicking, I still managed to complete the final project of this week. The following is the content of the conversation between him and me: “What was the content of your phone call? Why are there two parts?” → “My storyline is that my groupmate and I had a conflict and scolded me first, and then apologized to me later” → “This content is boring and long, will anyone read it?” → “Then I deleted it?” → “Just add subtitles on top and shorten it here” → “OK” → “Okay, do as I say and your Final is over.”
REFLECTION
These tutors only know how to make their modules more difficult for students without considering whether the students can handle other courses. Md, I am in the fourth semester (the busiest semester) but my instructor thought I was in the second semester and put me on hold to take more difficult courses. If a student like me can produce director-level works, do I really need to take this module here?
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