Moodboard

 Hello! Today in class we were asked to create four visual mood boards, each having a different location. During this project it was important to keep in mind that I must include the sets, props, actors, costumes, lighting and color.

Here are the mood boards I did:

This is a mood board for the beach.

For this beach mood board, I included images of the beach of course, along with stickers and symbols that signify the beach. These symbols include the shells, sun and images. In one of my horizontal images, I added a picture of a friend group running side by side holding beach equipment. (The floaties) This friend group is supposed to give the mood board a bright and cheerful vibe. I used the colors grey, blue and light yellow to represent the beach. Lastly, I want the audience to be aware of the location and pay attention to the signs that give this location away. 

For my second mood board, I did a historical time period theme. 

This mood board is aimed for the audience to notice the details that tell you where this location takes place. By "Historical time period", anyone can assume it's from all sorts of places. So in this mood board, I made the location clear by adding the country and its flag. The color red specifically, with the five stars, tells the audience that this takes place in China. I included an image of a Chinese dragon and a lantern. To add to that, I added a photo of Esther Yu, a popular Chinese actress, wearing a hanfu, which is the clothing that women wore in China during the historical time period. 

For my third mood board, I did a snowboarding theme.

In my snowboarding mood board, all of the images I used have snow in them to tell the audience that this doesn't take place in a warm climate. This mood board doesn't have a specific location, however these resorts can be in many different places. I used an image of the snowboards and ski lifts so that when people look at this, they will know it's in a ski resort. For my colors, I used two shades of blue, a light grey, and white. These colors can symbolize a cold climate or give off winter vibes.

Lastly, here is my mood board for an amusement park.

Just like the beach mood board, this was easy to create because the photos of ride attractions give away to the audience that it takes place at an amusement park. This is because these rides are not found any where else usually. I included images of some treats you can get for playing games, and some of the most popular amusement park rides which are the roller coasters, bumper cars and the carousel. Most of the images have people in them, showing how much fun they are having to give this mood board a lively vibe. Another thing that gives this a lively and happy vibe are the bright colors red, yellow, blue, and green.

Sound Art Project

Today in class, me and my friend Suri worked on a sound art project where we had to create our own scene using a minimum of 10 sounds. Four of these being our own foley sounds, and the rest from the internet.

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Scene: Going fishing

1. Going fishing

- footsteps

- crickets chirping

- leaves 

- walking on deck 

- boat creaking

2. Fishing

- Water paddling

- Fish rod whip

- fishing rod reeling

- fish flopping in water

- Fish thrown in bucket

The audio

Video with the foley sounds

Case Study

 Hello, today in class we were asked to write a description of a 2 minute clip from a movie or tv show. I chose to do the movie "20th Century Girl" with time stamps of when the movie uses camera movements and angles.

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The movie begins with a steadicam to show the setting. In this case, the first 40 seconds is showing a video rental store in which the protagonists family owns. The camera is still while the characters in the film are moving, making this a steadicam. 

In the steadicam, there is a man sweeping outside while someone on a motorcycle approaches him, handing a package. When the man looks at the package, the scene becomes an over the shoulder shot; a shot taken just over a characters shoulder, revealing what the package is.

From 0:42-0:49, there is a close up shot; a clip that records the mans face up close. Then, it transitions into a pov from 0:49-0:53. This pov allows us to see what the man sees in his perspective. He is looking at the picture on the package, which is an image of a field of flowers. The movie then gives us an establishing shot of the real place from 0:53-1:00. 

The next shot from 1:04-1:10 is a steadicam, taking place in a recording studio where the characters are moving in the frame, but the camera does not move. This simply introduces us to the new setting. 

From 1:10-1:26, there is a slow zoom to introduce us to the protagonist, Bo-ra. She is seen in the recording room when she gets a call from her father asking about the package. The camera zooms into her and transitions into a close up from 1:26-2:00. 

This was reviewed by Suri Nguyen.