This week, I have found some suitable soundtrack for my project. These music are all came from the YouTube Audio Library. Hope I could use them well.
A Quiet Thought-Wayne Jones
At Rest Romance-Kevin MacLeod
Casual Desire-Ugonna Onyekwe
First Love-Wayne Jones
Gaia in Fog-Dan Bodan
Touching Moment-Wayne Jones
STORY:
Inspirational short video.
AUDIENCE:
Those who are lost on the road of their life.
MESSAGE:
Have a vision for your life.
‘You can do it!’
‘Nothing can be hard work.’
Dream Big. Set Goals. Take Action.
STYLE/GENRE
Personal story: spoken word
Interviews and voice over.
As the movie draws to the end, music becomes more and more intense and exciting.
1. Point of view:
Although this video above is just a movie clips trailer, but I like this quick view version, it can make the audience interested in the story before they enjoying the whole movie.
“What you can see hurt you.”
Throughout this story of the three women, the entire movie actually explores three important issues in women’s lives: women as mothers, women’s relationships with men, women’s relationship with themselives.
2. Dramatic Question:
The pressure of life is suffocating, how to decide our own future?
“Why are you here?”
3. Emotional Content:
This ‘train’ is heading to the heart of married women, which can make you gradually feel the passive, submerged, desire for freedom and independence.
4. Voice (voiceover not dialogue):
Not so much.
5. Soundtrack:
As the story progresses, along with the mysteries that emerge one by one, the soundtrack becomes more and more weird and belts along at a cracking pace.
6. Pacing:
Follow the eye sight of Rachel, we can see many pieces of other people’s life. When different people’s story overlaps, the only constant is her sight.
7. Imagery (economy):
The commuter train which Rachel watch other women’s life penetrate the whole film.
1. Point of view:
If you have an aim, you can move a mountain.
2. Dramatic Question:
Why I have to do this?
3. Emotional Content:
Study is never easy, no pain, no gain.
4. Voice (voiceover not dialogue):
None
5. Soundtrack:
With the advance of the story, the rhythm of music becomes faster.
6. Pacing:
Using the contrast between the two boys, the study hard boy got successful , and the other has expelled.
7. Imagery (economy):
Different phones, dressed and study attitude made them be a different person.
The rich student did not take his chance. Even though he had a superior family environment, he was still lost to the poor student who study hard.
Unfortunately, Simon did not made it because of his illness. So, this week’s first class I had an opportunity to searched something about camera techniques.
Here are six basic camera moves can help me let the film more professional:
Tilt、Pan、Zoom、Pedestal、Dolly、Truck
And also some advanced fancy camera moves:
Handheld Shooting、Floating Cam or Stabilized Shot、Crane/Jib
Find more detail in: Camera Movement Techniques – By Kyle Cassidy
STORY:
What type of digital story is it?
Comedy, Drama, Romance
What happens in the story?
Four young girls grow up during a summer in 1970.
What changes in the story/scene?
Girls began to understand the difference between the sexes.
AUDIENCE:
Who do you think the story is aimed at? Who is the audience for this piece?
Family, young people
How do you know? What in the piece tells you it was created for this audience?
This film tells about growth and family.
MESSAGE:
What is the message / are the messages of the story/scene?
Childhood experience is invaluable and growing could transfor a person.
STYLE/GENRE
It’s non- fiction.
Drama.
Voiceover and dialogue.
The performance was great.
Vigor, enthusiasm and optimism. The value of the most important stage of life was set off.
1. Point of view:
This is a short Chinese New Year story shot on iPhone X by director Peter Chan called ‘Three Minutes’. If your family reunion only lasts three minutes, what will you do?
It also showed the iPhoneX’s amazing shoot performance. Through this film, I can see its infinite possibilities.
2. Dramatic Question:
What can we create just use our phone?
If there are only three minutes before parting, what could you do?
3. Emotional Content:
The Chinese New Year is coming, we should give some consideration to those people who are still keep to their posts.
4. Voice (voiceover not dialogue):
The mother told us her background story before the main story. And the director use voiceover showed us her story which is writting on her diary.
5. Soundtrack:
At the begining of the main film, the director using some extra sound effects showd us the enthusiasm of passengers returning home and the busyness of the crew. These extra sounds made the short one minute’s begining more vivid.
When the train door was opening, the ticking of the clock are followed us all the time which is remind us time is passing. As time goes by, the sound became more rapid. And when time comes to the end, all the noise came to peace. It told us : time has its length, but love is endless.
6. Pacing:
Using a countdown meter and placed at the top of the whole picture. Although it was only three minutes, but it grasped the attention of the audience well.
7. Imagery (economy):
In this film, we can see some elements of chinese spring festival. It let those overseas Chinese which like us in different country felt the thick festival atmosphere, and made us pick up our smart phone subconsciously to record something belong to our own “New Year”.