Langxian Zeng AICE Media Studies Portfolio

 CCR #1: Talk Show Segment How does your product use or challenge film conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues? CCR #2: Podcast Guest Segment How does your product engage audiences, and how would it be distributed as a real media text? CCR #3: What's in My Media Bag How did your production skills develop throughout this project? CCR #4: Man on the Street How did you integrate technologies (software, hardware, and online tools) in this project?

  Export Settings H.264 (AVC) video codec 1920x1080 HD video Rough Cut This is a rough cut of what we thought the opening should roughly look like. Compared to the final product the edits are a lot messier because it was 2AM and I just wanted to get a basic idea across of how it should look. In the end I changed a lot since then, such as cleaning up the animations and removing the "Craft Services by Starbucks" part.

 Timeline for the first ~20 seconds of the project It only gets worse from here Timeline starting at ~21 seconds Lots of layers were required to pull off the scrapbook effect on the montage Timeline starting at ~40 seconds This is my personal favorite still from the montage Timeline starting at ~1 minute  End of montage Timeline starting at ~1:20:00 Start to transition back to normal footage Timeline starting at ~1:40:00 Title drop!   Ominous Drone Cinematic Boom La Cucaracha Belle and Sebastian - Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying

   Update We could not use the camera we wanted to use as a result of the auditing taking place at the beginning of the week next week. As a result, we switched to using our phone camera with the Black Magic app. This will allow us to control settings like on a real camera, such as ISO, shutter speed, and lens type. When we film this should give us more control and make the quality better than normal phone camera.

   Call Sheet

   Risk Assessment Potential Risks Fog machine will set the smoke alarms off Few lights throughout the house Weather could be adverse Cars could be driving through the street Camera batteries die quickly Eliminating Risks Schedule filming days in advance with weather in mind Bring reflector for outside shots to ensure shots are properly exposed Bring GVM light kit w/ lightstands to simulate indoors Cover smoke alarms with plastic bags Charge the batteries and manage time so the camera lasts longer