Video & Sound Production ：Final project

 2025/5/19 - 2025/7/21（Week 5 - Week 14）

SUN JIAYUE ( 0376224 ) / Bachelor of Design ( Honors ) in Creative Media Video & Sound Production / Taylor's University 

Final project

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INSTRUCTION

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Final Project

Week 10:

This week, we chose tarot cards and requested to create a special effects video based on the information on the tarot cards.

We were divided into groups of two to make a video. Through the PPT provided by the teacher, we understood the meaning of our cards.

We are required to conduct research based on the proposal provided in the PPT. First of all, in this class, we will search for special effects videos and use AE to produce them.

Here are the special effects videos I'm looking for:

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Week 11 :

We have fully understood the main content provided by the card through the last class. I have delved deeper into the card through the website.

Link

We chose one of the contents as the target of our design and the main story content for shooting.

Synopsis: If you are both being honest and acting with integrity in your relationship then you will see the rewards in the form of a period of harmony or a bigger commitment. It can indicate marriage, representing the marriage contract. However, if either of you have been dishonest or have cheated, Justice indicates that the truth will be revealed and whoever has been dishonest will reap what they have sown.

We began to write our story. We wrote down each shot of the story to provide us with ideas during the shooting. Below are our shots, a total of seven.

This is our storyline：

🎭 Story Plot 1 – Act 1: Setting Stage (Starting Point)

The two girls, A and B, are the closest friends on campus. They chatted with each other, shared their daily lives, took pictures of each other, discussed the future in the cafe, and trusted each other. A often praises B in front of his friends, thinking that she is the most reliable person.

⚡ Story Plot 2 – Inciting Incident 1: Inciting Event (Promise)

B gave A a small gift that she made with her own hands, which said "Always here for you". A was very moved and felt that this friendship would last for a long time. The two people hugged each other, and the scene was warm.

🌀 Story Plot 3 – Act 2: Rising Action (Rift)

One day, A and B went to the restaurant for dinner, and B went to the toilet. A inadvertently saw the new message from B's mobile phone... B said something bad about A.

⏳ Story Plot 4 – Act 2 Midpoint: Turning Point (Face)

A chose to face B in the classroom and handed her a screenshot of the chat. B chose to remain silent and conceal, and then wanted to defend himself but couldn't say it. The two fell into silence, and the air was filled with disappointment. A chose to leave in anger.

💥 Story Plot 5 – Cold War

A and B passed by. B wanted to grab A's hand, but A walked away silently.

🌑 Story Plot 6 – Inciting Incident 2: Second Trigger (Awakening)

B came to A to explain. B knew the mistake, and B cried. It turned out that all this was a misunderstanding. A couldn't bear to forgive B.

🌅Story Plot 7 – Act 3: Ending (Relief and Growth)

A few days later, A and B held hands again and played together on the playground.

Then we told the gentleman this idea. He thought it was a good one (many ideas had been rejected before), and then we started to draw our storyboard.

We draw storyboards based on the plot of the story：

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Week 12:

This week we are engaged in video shooting, which will last for a week. We have made multiple shooting and revisions based on the storyboard, carefully shooting every segment and capturing every best one. The following are the photos being taken.

I also edited this page and successfully created a tear-off effect.

Google Driver Link

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Week 13：

We edited the videos. We put all the videos in and then made relevant edits. During this week, we showed our videos to the teacher and he gave us suggestions. At first, the teacher thought that the sequence of the videos we designed couldn't make the viewers understand the meaning. Later, we adjusted the sequence of the videos. I showed my revision assignment to the gentleman again and received his approval. The following is the process of my editing.

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Week 14:

During this week, we carried out the final PPT design, put our files into Google Drive, and then in the last week, we showed our final video to the gentleman, who gave us suggestions for revision. Let's slow down when the information pops up, allowing the information to be fully seen. Then, when we have an argument, there's no need for a final turn around, and we just remove it. After we have revised these two parts, the video can basically be considered completed.

PPT：

The Emotional World of Children by JIAYUE SUN

Final proposal

View Google Drive：Link

You Tube Link

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FEEDBACK：

Week 13 :

 We checked the homework for the gentleman. He pointed out to us that the sequence of our story was hard for people to understand, so it was very important to adjust the sequence so that the viewers could understand.

Week 14:

This week, we went to check the final video of our project for the gentleman. He said that the information pop-up part of our video needs to be changed. The time needs to be extended because it is too short and the viewers have no readability. So we made improvements. During the quarrel in the middle, the gentleman told us that turning around and leaving was superfluous and needed to be removed.

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Reflections：

In my opinion, doing homework in groups is a very interesting thing. At the very beginning, we didn't make a complete plan, so there were difficulties when doing the group tasks earlier. But after the two of us actively discussed, we finally solved all the problems. If one person finishes the special effects video, it is a very difficult thing. Because we need to do a lot of preparatory work, we have to search for a large amount of video and audio. This is a huge workload for one person. During the production process, we also encountered many problems, such as the inability to create special effects, the failure to achieve the desired effect during shooting, and the misalignment of video and audio when editing the video. We actively solved all these problems. Fortunately, Finally, we produced a video that satisfied us.