Media160

Just finish the final exam for MEDP160. It's so fast before I settle down feel it, It's finished. The knowlege we learned in this class are very useful in our future career and study. As a student in media major, known Final Cut Express and flash are great strength for our future.
Professors and lab teacher are very nice, I am very appreciate their kindly help. A technical blind person like me learning tough softwares like final cut, and Flash. I can't imagine how can I past the test.
On the same time, i feel we don't have enough time to discuss and develop our ideas in this class. May be it's only me. I am too busy to run between class and jobs. I feel I didn't understand alot of the information in class. For example, review for the final is very painful. We have 14 chapters and a lot of questions. Chapters also cover information from daversity topics. It's very hard for me to review them and memory all the questions. Before final I receive 3 phone calls from classmates. They fell the same as me, they scared...
In a word, This is a great class with dedicate teachers, just we don't have enough time to understand all information in class.

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The process making this short horror movie was a great experience for me. We have 2 weeks to plan, 1 hour to shoot, and forever to editing. I am so glad Christina Lee and I made such a wonderful team. Without corporation we can’t make this happen.

 When we were grouped together, we were very confused what 2 Asian girls could make in one hour terrible lighting hunter night. Christina’s long black hair and black nails flashed me with the idea of horror movie. Asian young women ghost-Pretty, Dangerous. The most important quality in Asian women ghost is they are haunting real people to kill their soul without bloody mess. We are so click in this idea. We made a plot list and drew story board, these little pro-production work help a lot in the shooting day.

In the production day Christina called her friend Jewel Hise to help. She saved our shot on that day, because Christina and I all acted and shoot in the production night. We were so messy on the shooting day. We ideally thinking our shooting list will direct out action perfectly, actually little details we didn’t plan ahead almost destroy our shooting. For example, we didn’t think about how much footage we need shoot for editing, we ran out of saving space in the card in the middle of the shoot.  It also changed our shooting plan because we run out of time. However, we have a lot of fun shooting and acting.

Since us both have super busy schedule, and Final cut express was new for both of us. Get together edit movie and learn the new software were so hard for us.  After crushed in first 2 drafts, finally Christina holds all the pieces together. I was so exciting to see our film shows on the big scream. It’s means a lot to us. Audiences’ reactions to our story are the best judgment for our hard work.

Doll Face

Andy Huang directed Doll Face when he was a student in the University of Southern California. He. This is one of my favorite animation short films. It’s a 3-D animation film mix with live acting. The style of the work looks very contemporary. An animated TV set with real life TV show images on it. The space takes place in a gray lab, factory like place. A silver metal box sits on the right corner of the frame. A spider like robot comes out from the box, it has a female face. The robot keep putting make up on to make her self looks like the face percent on TV. She ends up drag her body so far from the box. She destroyed herself with a half human face.
This is an animation that grabs my imagination. This is a nice finished animation with deep ironic thought. It reminds me Viktor Shklovsky's Theory of Ostranenie (“making it strange,” or defamiliarization). In seminal essay “Art as Technique” (1917),Shkovsky argues that: "The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of
things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique
of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult to increase
the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception
is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged." (Shklovsky 16)
Seems “Doll face” Takes place in an animated space. Huang use very simple element. A robot and a TV, fade out space. The way Andy Huang analyzes the creative elements and story structure, link this animation piece with audience life experiences in modern society. It was accepted into the Official Selection at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, as well as the Electronic Theater at SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston.

The opening scene of Roman Pulaski’s Roserosemary's baby

The opening scene of Roman Pulaski’s film Roserosemary's baby, is a great scene with dramatic terms and turning point. The editing has made a significant contribution to the storytelling and the feel of the piece.

The scene beging with smooth classical cutting. It’s start with helicopter wide shots of up-town, and stop in front of Tacota. It is cut to a young couple walks in the building. Camera tracking them enter the hallway with medium shots. Buy the time they enter the house, Camera fallow them with close up shots.

Editor also plans a lot of details in this scene as key clue for the whole movie. These nice pasted details lead the whole movie with horror feeling. For example, the plot of which is also the dramatic turning point of the scene. It shows three times in the first 8 minutes of the movie. The editor successfully drag audiences’ attention, by repeat the simple memorable images.

There are some important jump cuts after the characters find the hiding closet. The time is speeded up to serve the Story telling. The film is cut to an exterior New York street, they make decision to take the apartment. Another jump cut to Rosemarry’s friend, Hitch’s house. Hitch delivers the historical background of the building.Most of the out side logic questions are Soviet in 2 minutes. The rest of the movie isolates Rosemary in the apartment deal with all evils.
When the movie cut back to the apartment, we can feel the time is slowed down. The lighting is getting dark. Camera fallows characters in low angle shots, and the real world is blocking away from the old apartment.

The editing helps the story develops more intensively.  by limited unrelated information, and  enlarge important details. 

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