Author: Nabihah Choudhury

 

I was 100% sure we had homework but I couldn’t find it on Moodle, so I did the next thing a student could do when confused about assignments. Ask my peers!

I shot the clips first because I was sure our work was either to do with a voiceover or text within video (spoiler alert it was the voiceover).

Since I decided to go work on another assignment downstairs, I thought I would record the process (part of it at least) and then boom. Two birds with one stone.

Once I realised I was doing a voiceover I played the video and narrated to my phone.

Perhaps next time I’ll combat my impatience and plan out what I’d say first rather than just say whatever comes to my mind.

My friends very beautiful friend came over to our accommodation and decided to study with us. While she was studying I filmed her from different angles, each angle revealed something different, such as who was next to her, what her hair looked like from the back. All slightly meaningless alone but combined together pieced together to create a scenario of youthful madness. This was also the first time I managed to record sound so I was very happy and it also showed how much sound influences what is seen.

https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/117879

https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/116933

I recorded several audio recordings around the first floor of my building while I was studying. Mostly when I study, I tend to have my headphones in to blast music and I rarely take time to simply absorb the ever noisy world around me. So I decided to record the different elements of me studying and layer them, sounds such as typing, bottles opening and the people around me talking. I forgot the world is noisy and so alive.

(Took me 3 hours to figure how to upload it and serena saved me <3)

https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/116043

This is me trying my best editing.

I have never used DaVinci before, so most of this was me messing around trying to figure out the software. Since I am still unable to actually record sound, the entire video is silent but I am proud of the shots I took. The way I edited it was to hold an overall colour palate of autumn-like orange which further enhance the mild-looking shots I took.

https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/115241

 

I took a video of my friend Serena because the light was framing her really nicely and she looked especially pretty with the soft lighting. I thought it was also rather funny considering how I was recording her while she was setting her camera up so she could record.

However pretty the lighting appeared, I still should have made sure that it wasn’t obnoxiously bright and blinded my models face, which it did. If I could do it again, I’d make sure to get the balance of light right to highlight the models features.

https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/115235

 

I decided to video my friends talking, I liked the mundane realism of their distain for studying and their small chatter. Unfortunately, I forgot to put the mic on so it looks like they’re simply miming speaking which is somewhat embarrassing on my part.

They were talking about being set up on a blind date and it really would have been funny if you could heard.

https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/114996