Week 1: • Post written in tutorial-new diraction in nerrative.

This is the first blog about the tutorial of New Direction in Narrative. During the class, we had discussed how to develop a large collaborative media project for multi-platform delivery, and how we inspired to create fiction digital narratives though collecting media text in this semester. Furthermore, we were discussing assorted story structures enabled by digital and networked technologies. We had watched 2 videos in class one is a documentary web series “Dramaworld” the other one named “Lateshift” which is the cinematic interactive film. In this blog, I am gonna explain what is the “interactive media” and what is the relationship between movie and game.

Nowadays, with the rapid development of technology, the special effects are added increasingly in the movies, and in terms of games, they are also made of special effects essentially.“In fact, in the every-day life search for entertainment material, people become more and more interested in the products and services related to video content industry and especially movies”(Ellouze,Boujemaa &Adel M.2010, p.1) Therefore, the interactive movies and movie form’s games are the result of the mode of media presenting which means their form is being an approach to each other.The original intention of video game’ design is interactive between real life and the interaction of the virtual world. Therefore, as we can see the important aspect is about getting people participate in the game. “Interactive media”,”Movies” here should be film-based games. Niran B. Abbas (2004, p. 12)”narrative as vitual reality examines the culture of immersion and interactivity within the realm of the virtual and virtuality.” New media form develops rapidly, it not only promotes the transformation of traditional media into interactive media, and also is a new mode to the movie area.

References list:

1:Mehdi, E; Nozha, B& Adel, M.A 2010,’Interactive movie summarization system‘, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 21, o 4, Pages 283-294, viewed 15 Mar 2018https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/science/article/pii/S1047320310000088?via%3Dihub

2: Niran B. Abbas 2004,’Modern Humanities Research Association’, Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media, Vol. 34, Pages 277-278, viewed 15 Mar 2018http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/stable/3509518?sid=primo&origin=crossref&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

 

proposal

[Project Title] Flowery Moments

Group Members and their projected roles:

Hongwei Wang: Cameraman

Hayley:Editer

I have to interview and communicate with the protagonist Monika Droste and then writing her story into the proposal. During the shoting process I also have to be a sound recorder. Moreover,I should assistant directer ,Organization the time and also communicating with the manager of the Fitzroy market make sure we can running this project smoothly.

Kevin:Directer

Creating of the script of the whole story

Tutor’s Name: [Louise Turley / Patrick Kelly / Jeremy Bowtell]

S&I-6: Reflection on the course

During the first semester of learning the course of sound and image. I have learned some technique about shooting and editing. For me learning video production brings me into a new world, I am been attracted by the exercise shooting experience and powerful function of the Adobe Premiere.

Our teacher explains the video production of the various functions, with the operation, let us have a preliminary understanding of video production. After shooting we will edit our shooting video at class by following the teacher’s require.

As for a shooting part, we also faced with many problems,cause there have many materials have to be set before the shooting . It not only needs a good idea to know how to shooting but also have to work with other patiently.

After this semester of shooting and editing. The teacher explanation, as well as the after the classmates discussion, Therefore I had mastered the things that do not understand before. After practice it again and again, I am more and more familiar with the software of Adobe Premiere. The mind of editing the video is also getting better and clear, Although there are many deficiencies, I notice that practice is the best way to make the video of editing more fluently and better. My goal is to understand all the knowledge of shooting and editing one day.

S&I-5: Colour Grade

During this part, the version of this video is old style. I choose to create an effect to the people who are playing the violin. I insert the video into the Adobe Premiere, and then choose the upper function of “效果”. After that, I had pressed the right-hand side of “创意”. Moreover, I had selected the color orange to the change the video’s color. In addition, if we want to create an old style we also can plus “noise point” which is thescratches on the film, and then adjust the color point, make the contrast higher.or we can make the video become gray.

Secondly, at this video, I had chosen the “RGB曲线” and “色彩饱和度曲线”.the “RGB曲线” can change the video brighter and then the “色彩饱和度曲线” is to select the color grade.This video is about an adorable baby and she is lovely and then I choose the color of red on her face which can make the mood if this video happy. also to the audiences.

The last one is the scenery video, it also uses the different method to select the effect. This video I haven changes a lot. This is because the natural color version already really pretty. It can the audiences eye candy.

S&I- 4: The Edit and Reflection on your Vox Pop and Interviews

During this time of group work of two projects of Vox Pop and Interview. It was an interesting shooting with my classmates at the library. First of all, because we have to know the students’ voice about the new library. The questions are important. Therefore I put the question before the every answer. And then, I also keep the voice of the questions after the questions display on the screen.To make sure the audiences can understand what the questions are. As for the font type and stroke weight also to make sure the audiences can watch clearly. I have also chosen the shade type of font.This is because the background is white, added the shade can make the words pretty. Moreover, I had chosen the color red because RMIT always uses the color red as the main color in the advertising.In addition, I had utilized the fade in and fade out to separated every question. Furthermore, to the sound aspect, the most important thing is matching the audio and video together, firstly, when I drag in the video I will choose to remove the original sound and then it can make the match easier.After that matching the first word to ensure it is correctly matching.

At the second part of Vox Pop, I just separated the different people’s answer. Before they star telling I make their name on the screen. It will not let the audiences feel strange who are talking right now. After that fade into the protagonist then fades out while they finish talking. During this part, we should make sure the voice of the question clear, and also as louder as the answering voice. However, we haven not done it well. Because we haven not let the journalist wear the microphone.

Furthermore, the interview just group communication. I just match the sound and image together

 

Vox Pop 1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6TGdCg55GTkcXhCaW5KUWlaV0E

Vox Pop 2: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6TGdCg55GTkV1RnejVob3FpWGs

Interview: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6TGdCg55GTkWDIyY3FRNlBqTzA