Interview question list

1. What is your gender

2. What film genres do you like?

Comedy 

Thriller

Adventure film                           

Romance film                 

Documentary

Horror film

Action movie

Crime & gangster film      

Science fiction film                     

Musical film

Epics/historical film

3. What elements about a film attract you to watch it?

  Story/Characters/Dialogue/Poster/Colour tone/Music/Other _____

4. Have you made a short film before? If you have, are you more interested in pre-production phase or post-production phase?

5. Are you focusing on colour when you watching films? Yes/No

  If it is yes, can you briefly describe what specific colour it used?

6. Compare with the three set of video clips, which set are the highest colour saturation and which set are the lowest? What emotion feeling are they bring to you?

7. After you watch the different colour lighting test, do you think the colour in the videos are the desaturated colour or saturated colour?

8. After you watch the third video clip, please write down three words to describe what is the feeling it brings to you?

9. Do you think uses of colour in film burn effect (like some bright lights in this clip) are desaturated or saturated? What effect did this have on you?

(I will randomly turn off the sound and music to test different people with the same questions (6 to 9), and then analyze whether their answers are same or not.)

Interview question list (draft)

1. What is your gender?

2. What film genres do you like?

Comedy 

Thriller

Adventure film                           

Romance film                 

Documentary

Horror film

Action movie

Crime & gangster film      

Science fiction film                     

Musical film

Epics/historical film

3. What elements about a film attract you to watch it?

  Story/Characters/Dialogue/Poster/Colour tone/Music/Other _____

4. Are you focusing on colour when you watching films? Yes/No

  If it is yes, can you briefly describe what specific colour it used?

5. Have you made a short film before? If you have, are you more interested in pre-production phase or post-production phase?

6. Compare with the three set of video clips, which set are the highest colour saturation and which set are the lowest? What emotion feeling are they bring to you? (Because I used three different lens, all of them I recorded two clips, one is front depth of field and one is back depth of field. Three lens created three different colour tone, so that I want to test what different colour tone between man and women prefer)

7. After you watch the different colour lighting test, which colour tone do you like and which type of colour combinations do you like?

8. After you watch the third video clip, please write down five words to describe what is the feeling it brings to you?

9. Do you like the film burn effect (like some bright lights in this clip)? What effect did this have on you? Please use three words to describe the feeling this effect brings to you. (Because the film burn effect was used in post production phase that created different bright colour lights in the video. so, I would like to interview the audience what are the different feeling between use of colour in pre-production and post-production phase.)

(I will randomly turn off the sound and music to test different people with the same questions (6 to 9), and then analyze whether their answers are same or not.)

Finished editing about the third colour testing

Today I finished editing this clips. This time I try to use projector to project different colour videos on the white wall to create different colour tones. I also used after effect to create film burn effects on the post production phase. And I want to find the different colour feeling in pre-production and post-production phase, based on the same sequence.

Study how to create film burn in After Effects

Today I started to study Film burn in After Effects, which I want to use in my test clips. I really love this effect, because it looks bright and colourful and it also can link different shots with a soft way. However, some people think this effect looks too over in a short film that they will jump out of the story. But I think it depends on the story. When we need to create something dreamlike or fantasy, this effect will be very useful can let audience have that feeling. And I also download some clips and try to create what feeling i want.

Shooting about the third colour testing

Today I have done the shooting about the third experiment colour testing. This time I used projector to create different colour. I used different video clips to project the images on the white wall. The actress stands in front of the white wall, so she will be influenced by the images which were projected on the white wall.

After shooting I was checking the clips, I found a problem that the video clips projected on the wall was flickering on the camera. I searching the answer on the internet, maybe because of the frequency of shooting is not the same as of frequency the video played on wall. I will try to find the way to solve that problem.

Finish editing: colour testing through different colour lights

Colour testing through different colour lights

On Wednesday, I did an experimental testing about different colour of lighting on video. I used different colour gels to do this test, based on the same character and the same location. The final images that appeared on the screen are completely different.

First, I just used single colours (green, red, blue, yellow and purple) for testing, each images showing a different feeling and clarity. Red is the most unclear colour between these images. Because of the local colour (the background of white wall and the character itself) are different, so the different colours are not the same. So, the reflections of the atmospheric colour are also different.

Then, I used the combination of two colours (red and green). In the same environment, the character move her body to face different colours, it also create different feelings, the green light is more clear than red light.

 At last, I used different types of combination create warm and cold atmosphere to test that colour have different temperature feelings.