Video & Sound Production: Exercises

22/9/25 - 27/11/25 (Week 1 - Week 10)

Choong Yee Leng || 0381980

Interactive Design || Bachelor Degree in Creative Media || Taylor’s University 

Exercises

Week 1

Summary of lecture:

• Types of shot sizes, camera angles and compositions
• Functions of different shot sizes and camera angles
• Basic editing techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro

Quiz:

Figure 1.1 week 1 quiz results

Exercises:

Figure 1.2 Week 1 exercise 1

Figure 1.3 Week 1 exercise 1

Week 2

Summary of lecture:

• Introducing three-act story structure (Act 1,2,3)
• shot size (extreme close-up, close-up, medium shot, medium wide shot, wide shot, extreme wide shot)
• camera angle (eye-level, low angle, high angle)
• Screen direction (180 degree rule)

Quiz

Figure 2.1 Week 2 quiz result

Exercises:

Figure 2.2 Week 2 Shooting Exercise

Figure 2.3 Week 2 Editing Exercise

Week 3

Summary of lecture:

• project 1 briefing
• shooting exercise (camera angle + shot size)

Exercise:

Figure 3.1 Week 3 Shooting Exercise

Week 4

Summary of lecture:

• Production stages: pre-production, production, post-production
• Production crew: director, producer, cinematographer, production designer, sound designer, editor
• Task 1: audio dubbing editing
• Grouping for project 1 shooting

Quiz:

Figure 4.1 Week 4 quiz 1 result

Figure 4.2 Week 4 quiz 2 result

Week 5

Summary of lecture:

• Mise en scène (setting & location, props & objects, costume & make-up, lightning, composition & framing, performance & acting, colour palette, spatial relationship)
• Mise en scène encompasses everything that appears within the frame or on stage and how these elements are organized to convey meaning, emotion, and narrative to the audience.
• Project 2 shooting

Quiz:

Figure 5.1 Week 5 quiz result

Week 6 & 7

Summary of lecture:

• Colour theory in film (colour wheel, colour context, colour harmony)
• Colour correction & colour grading

Figure 6.1 Week 6 quiz result

Exercise:

Figure 6.2 Colour correction & grading exercise

Week 8

Summary of lecture:

• Introducing Adobe Audition for audio editing
• Phone call effect (👇bass, 👇treble and ☝mid-range)
• muffled effect (bass, 👇treble, ☝mid-range)
• reverb effect (decay time, pre-delay time, dry, wet)

Week 9

Summary of lecture:

• techniques of storyboarding :

1. Select visual effects shot with tutorial supported.
2. Build story around the visual effect shot (1 character, 1 continuous event).
3. Break the story into plot segment.
4. Describe shots with scene and shot size.

• special effect editing tutorial with Adobe After Effect

Exercise:

Figure 8.1 Special effect editing exercise

Week 10

Summary of lecture:

• Final project briefing

Week 11-14

Summary of lecture:

• Final project consultation