This week once again we were watched to ask multiple videos. The first video was about design thinking. Now, what is design thinking? Design thinking is a set of tools to help you solve problems creatively. Design thinking helps to solve complex ideas and to look through all problem solving to do with creativity. It is important as without design thinking you have no structure to what you are doing, it is seen as having no format or layout on a resume. Design thinking allows you to keep on track and stay organized step by step. There are 5 main steps for design thinking.
Empathise is the first step, it helps you to gather information on what you're doing such as who am I making this for? and what is their product? By doing this it allows you to have an idea of what you exactly need by gathering information from the client or your team. The next is Define, This means with your information in the last step you are taking what you need and breaking it down. Ideate is essentially coming up with a solution, brainstorms are most often used for this step. Prototype is basically the broken down ideas and turning them into a testable product, this leads into the next step...Test. Test is taking the creation and testing it with people, from this you gather feedback and go back to the Define stage, the whole cycle repeats once again with better and updated ideas.
The next video is about Film Production Stages. There are 3 different production stages which are pre-production, production and post-production The middle part is known as production, it is the most focused on as it has to do with the shooting section. Pre-production is used for designing your film and preparing for production such as writing, cast and costumes. The last stage is post-production which is wrapping up the film by editing, sound effects, and colour correction. Learning about these stages can really improve my course work in the near future, as we could potentially be shooting our own films.
The video after that was a second part of the first video, talking about how to improve your documentary. Rob from Science Filmmaking tips also talked about the different production stages but really went into detail with many tips such as backing up every piece of media with media managing and having our team and others provide feedback, which is key as I personally think in my opinion feedback is the best source of information, as you have others sharing their opinions on what you could do to improve your film.
The last video was on 4 easy steps to film a short documentary. Indy talks about ''SOT'' (Sound On Top) which is the audio used for interviewing people. Having audio can make people use both senses, eyes and ears to really take in what's happening in the film. The voiceover is next, the voiceover is talking over a piece of media. Indy talks about B-Roll which are shots of media taken while recording. This could be anything to a shot of scenery or a clip of people walking. It would be boring if it was only headshots. Last but not least is Natural Sound Break, which are natural sounds that are produced in their natural soundscape. Putting these in-between audio clips can add a better sound effect. I think all of these tips can help me in the near future, I will definitely put them to good use especially for my future projects and for personal projects.
- Kate O Toole
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