Video and Sound Production Final Project : Visual Effect

31.10.2022 - 28.11.2022 ( week 10 - week 14 )
Len Hoi Yee / 0353430
Video and Sound Production / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Final Project : Visual Effect

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Instructions 

Visual effect

Storyboard

Inspired by: 

 As a person who loves watching animated movies, i love watching Tom and Jerry tv series. One day, while rewatching the tv series, i found this episode very interesting https://youtu.be/9w2DJYdechg the part where Tom mixes all the poisons together into the milk to poison Jerry who keeps drinking his milk. (2:27) Hence, I wanted to remake this scene in my way, so I changed the story plot to my own story.

Some tutorials that I followed: 

• Fire edit
• smoke
  
• smoke 2
  

Progress

Figure 1.1 Editing footages

Add footages into Premiere Pro.

Fig. 1.2 Editing egg 

Fig. 1.3 Insert clean plate to create a person disappeared effect

Fig. 1.4 adding sound effect

Fig. 1.5 Colour correct

Fig. 1.6 Add transition

Fig. 1.7 Add ambience sound

Ambience sound : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mbn5GRYoRw&t=15s

Added visual effects 

Figure 1.8 Editing smoke effect 

Working on smoke effect and colour grading at the same time. 

Figure 1.9 Adding fire to cook the egg

Figure 1.10 Shrink

Final Outcome: https://youtu.be/LbMKQLq48SA

Reflection 

So this is the end of the journey, and I am proud to say that it's a success! Didn't know I could do such cool effects, althought there were struggles as well, like couldn't find keyframes, clips wrongly placed and caused the entire video have to rearranged the sequence again.... But thankfully, Premiere Pro treated me well, because I didn't have to suffer with lagging and sudden laptop shut down. It was better than After Effects that would constantly lag and shut down automatically, then I will lose my unsaved files. Through this journey, I have known that I am actually more keen towards cinematic studies, where scenes are shot and edited professionally, I was more interested in this VSP module than the others. I would like give my deepest gratitude to Mr. Martin who is always patient to give us feedback and extend the deadline, thanks for understanding our workload and allowed us to submit late. 

All in all, I have learnt a lot in VSP which I haven never experienced before in my life, did not know that sound design was created by combining different sounds. It was a really cool task to do. Lastly, I would like to thank my friends who were there for me throughout this journey, they have helped me a lot in working in Premiere Pro and also some visual effect edits.