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Lean management is an approach to managing an organization that supports the concept of continuous improvement, a long-term approach to work that systematically seeks to achieve small, incremental changes in processes in order to improve efficiency and quality. Lean Management is a critical tool in operating successfully in today's organizations.
The seven Lean Management principles are:

Eliminate waste.

Build quality in work processes.

Create knowledge.

Defer commitment.

Deliver fast.

Respect people.

Optimize the whole.

A good Lean Manager should be able to:

Give vision, focus & direction to the organisation.

Be an active coach & problem solver.

Be good at building relationships.

Strive for development & improvement.

Customer focus & value systems

Sureesh

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https://youtu.be/7JRHQlyZaAk

These are all great cool effects. Like how they break it down so well.

Just wonder (can’t rem) if we have those particles templates in Motion that we can conveniently apply if editors were to try out & see if it works.

Cherrie

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpoVwhSVI38

This animation film depicts beautifully the importance of a woman’s role in life, as a daughter, mother & grandmother.

Overall the film is good in showing a child may not understand how much a mom cares & gives to her (or him) unconditionally until the child has becomes a parent herself (or himself). But that is what makes a mother noble.

Cherrie

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Understanding the New Normal.

In this period, reading up on articles like these shared from NLB helps to keep sanity and preparing ourselves mentally to adapt to the new way of working, or even new lifestyle.

It is indeed quite challenging. But keep ourselves informed helps to alleviate the pain to adjust.

Keep ourselves open minded and changing our mindset to new way of doing things.

By W.Song

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How to setup a recording studio. Home,semi-pro and Professional Ideas.                                                                               It's useful for those want to learn to setup by it's own home production pls wacth at Sutdio recording setup frm:- Yuo-tube. Jaafar

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vidIQ Academy - How to Use vidIQ: The Complete Guide!

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vidIQ Academy - How to Use vidIQ: The Complete Guide!

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Learning to  vidIQ’s free features for YouTube optimization.

- sieving out competitors videos using YouTube autocomplete tool in search box
- using competitors channels to analyse their naming of video titles which generates the most views
- generate of hashtags

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Color Theory in Film — Color Psychology for Directors: Ep5

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Color Theory in Film — Color Psychology for Directors: Ep5

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Jiahao

Useful knowledge to look out for on our color palette selection.

It also reminded us that certain situation you have to stick to certain palette and not roam too far out from the spectrum.

It will be nice if we can utilise shooting with color gels and color grading to help us elevate specific mood.

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Jiahao

Amazing platform, well organised, message clear and engaging, definitely better than reading text.

Overall a good format, having 2D Infographics is as if the text book coming to life.

The key is really how to make them simpler, faster, cheaper but yet relevant and tasteful.

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How TED-Ed animations are made | TVPaint interview

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How TED-Ed animations are made | TVPaint interview

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Jiahao

Good to understand the inner workings of the TED-ED's animations team.

Gave us a good idea of the software, people and time needed to produce the graphics prior to post edit.

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HERE ARE SOME ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR SETTING UP YOUR GRADING ROOM

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HERE ARE SOME ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR SETTING UP YOUR GRADING ROOM

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After reading this wedsite I got better understanding how to setting up a grading room., not just a room with editing machine also must considered the correct lighting atmosphere that suit your eye and your client .

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Hate Using the Pen Tool? Make it Automatic! - Photoshop 

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Hate Using the Pen Tool? Make it Automatic! - Photoshop 

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lye lin
Learn how to easily use the techniques of create an automatic selection turn that into a Path.

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lye lin
This was so informative. These tricks will help you learn anything fast. Great point about how sleep consolidates memories into long term memory

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love to see a tutorial of the technique This is amazing! Makes me want to start doing my drawings on an ipad!

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Service Attitude: Service Resiliency - Free online course by NTUC

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Service Attitude: Service Resiliency - Free online course by NTUC

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Service resiliency is the ability to recover quickly from a challenging, adverse customer situation, disruptive change, crisis, trauma, or negative stress. This is true in this challenging time caused by Covid-19.

While we can’t control external influences, there are things within your control that can cut down on the number of adverse service situations coming your way such as double-checking your work, keeping your promises, applying good problem-solving skills, emotional self-control, and good self-esteem.

Key takeaway: Everyone can be resilient and it takes perseverance

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Color Theory in Film — Color Psychology for Directors: Ep5

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Color Theory in Film — Color Psychology for Directors: Ep5

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Christina

I enjoyed this video.

What i have learnt from it :-

Importance of Color in film:-
1) It elicits emotions
2) It has a psychological effect on people
2) It creates mood.

The  3 factors in determining colours are:

1) Hue - the color itself

For example having a blue tint over the scene can enhance the talent's feeling of despair.  In the movie Matrix, the use of green associated with digital coding is also used in the background or tinted over a whole scene to give a sickly effect, illustrating the overall mental state of the movie.

2) Saturation
- the intensity of the colour

Lightening the colous to the point of white wash effect for example is usually used in war films to show the coldness and depressed state of the situation.

3) Brightness
- how light or dark the color is

The brightness of the color is to show contrast within the scene for example a happy protagonist standing in a bright room vs a villain dressed in dark color wardrobe in a dimly lit room.

Knowing how to applying the color theories into our films can turn the director into a true visual artist.

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Adobe Premiere ver 14.0 Latest version (2020) hands-on experience sharing

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Adobe Premiere ver 14.0 Latest version (2020) hands-on experience sharing

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I borrowed my friend’s macbook pro laptop to explore Adobe Premiere 2020 version, Version 14.2.0 (build 47).

The amazing new feature I like very much is to be able to open a few projects simultaneously! Can add footage or music or effects used in another project real time. No need to open and close projects.

Music level can drag up to 15db instead of 6db.

For Lumetri Color, another added feature is the Face detection in Color Wheels & Match which can help to match between clips. Faster way to colour correct skin tone.

Essential Sound is another added feature which is quite useful. Can assign a tag to the selection to enable editing options based on the audio type. There are presets which can help to repair or enhance. For example, I laid 1 music track against 1 narration track; I tagged the music as background music and it will do an auto balancing against the narration track. So cool! Narration can choose presets too. For example, can balanced a female/male voice instantly, or, make it sound like from television, telephone or radio, from a distance etc.

There is a History tab which you can undo certain actions, like in photoshop.

There is a new set of transitions. VR chroma leaks, VR Gradient wipe, VR Iris wipe, VR light leaks, VR light rays, VR Mobius zoom, VR Random blocks, VR Spherical Blur. All still can edit n add keyframes!

Audio effects have some new effects to play around too.

Under File tab, other than create New project, there are “Production” and “Team Project”. Not too sure of its usage. Will need to explore.

Can’t wait to lay my hands to edit using the latest Premiere!

That’s all for now. Will share more when I find time to hands on more. Do let me know if you are curious of what other features you read and want me to try.

By W.Song

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THIS STREET ART IS ABSOLUTELY BREATH-TAKING 

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Poh Khim

That's a great feat, awesome art is really connected with their hearts and brightens up our mood, and I’m so impressed.

Street art is an amazing form of art that inspires and surprises, and that can transform a boring urban environment. Sometimes, street art not only transforms the world around you, but also interacts with you.

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My take - the human mind is uniquely attuned to recognising patterns. Music, at least regular music we've come to love and cherish, whether it be classical or pop, comes to us prepackaged with built in patterns formed through repetition in the chorus and highlights at strategic temporal locations to arrive at a pleasing composition, just like in the fine or graphic arts, or even elegant software coding, which is another form of art for the mathematically inclined. Without repetition, there would be no pattern, and without pattern, there would be no easy way to mentally tag a piece of favourite music and slot it in the recesses of one's mind for easy recall at a future date. My 2 cent's worth. :)

https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_hellmuth_margulis_why_we_love_repetition_in_music#t-88140

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The Impact of Akira: The Film that Changed Everything

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The Impact of Akira: The Film that Changed Everything

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My favourite Japanese Manga from my younger days as I was not into bug-eyed beauties and fairy tale stories. Never got to watch it on big screen here but I vaguely recall it being screened on local TV during some holiday many years ago. Although I've bought a few copies of the paperback graphic novel and waited with bated breath for the next book in the series each time I finished one, I somehow lost interest over the years and never quite got to know the exact outcome of the series. So I did not realise the film was a highly truncated version of the original book series. But what would one expect from such a magnum opus translated to screen and hand drawn at from 12 at 24 frames per second. Given the epic landscapes portrayed and the amount of detail poured into the morphing body of Tetsuo, no wonder they chose not to do multiple films to remain faithful to the book series, despite having a gigantic 11 billion Yen budget. That's about 102 million USD!

Here's a quote form the video:
"The film is the first half of the first volume and the last half of the last volume with a kind of amalgamated middle third that struggles to link these two divergent pieces of storytelling together".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVoEpRIaKg

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Everything is magic and make-believe, even sounds. When you watch a film that immerses you completely in its world, you’re probably hearing the work of sound artists. If the work is done right, you won’t be able to tell that the “natural” sounds on screen are manufactured with studio props.

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Name : Bawani
Title : 10 self improvement

what I have learnt from 10 self improvement course its (Self improvement is important as it helps the individual his/her full potential and find a reason to take a step forward in life. Self improvement helps the individual to know his/her strengths and weaknesses. It's helps self assessment and helps us to figure out where we stand in life.)

1st key point  area of  improvement  it's Time management at work

2nd key point area of improvement it's  Organization can make time management much easier. ...

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Claire :: Learn editing skills/follow tutorials from Plurasight ::

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Claire :: Learn editing skills/follow tutorials from Plurasight ::

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Course taken: Premiere Pro CC Building on the Fundamentals

Week 18 May - 22 May:

Multicam Editing
Basic Concepts of Multicam Editing

Learn how to sync the videos for multicam editing without having to manually do them.

Syncing Clips in a Multicam Source Sequence

Select the clips which you want to sync with the audio clip then click Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence.

A window will pop up where you can choose how to rename the multi cam sequence. Which Synchronise Point to choose. The most convenient way is to pick Audio.

Depending on scenarios, you will have to know which selection to pick under Audio, Sequence Settings. If you have a separate stand alone audio file, Camera 1 should be pick, otherwise, stick to All Camera.

Viewing and Editing Your Source Sequence into a New Sequence

After Premiere Pro has created the multi cam sequence, it will appear at the project panel but it will not be operating the same as a normal sequence.

The multi cam sequence acts like a hybrid; half clip, half sequence.

When clicking on the multi cam sequence, it will play at the source panel instead. Depending on which audio/camera are being turned on, you will see that panel first on the source panel.

After deciding which in and out points, you can pick New Sequence From Clip or simply just drag the sequence in the the empty Timeline.

Cutting in Real-time with the Multicamera View

After inserting creating the new sequence at the timeline, editing the multi camera sequence will take place at the program panel. You can see the multi cam angles there. Just need to make sure that the Toggle Multi Camera View is activated on the button bar.

To be able to edit the multi cam, you do not edit the cut at the Timeline sequence. At the program panel, hit playback and pick the video at the timing which you want to cut to the other angle. After picking which timing for which multi camera, it will reflect on the Timeline sequence. This applies to real-time edits.

If it is a very long video, you can just drag the playhead at the Timeline video then cmd click on the angle of the multi-cam which you want over at the Program panel, instead of editing it in real time.

Refining Your Multicam Edit

If tweaking is needed on the multi cam sequence, hover the playhead over the point at the timeline sequence and click on the angle you need at the project/multi cam panel. It will instantly replace edit from one camera angle to another. You can also right click, choose Multi-Camera, then choose the camera angle.

You can also use Rolling Edit tool if you decide the cut point should be earlier. It does not affect the synchronisation at all.

However, tools like Ripple, Slip and Slide will cause the multicam edit to be out of sync.

Syncing Separately Recorded Audio and Video

Exploring the tool Merge Clips for syncing a separate video(with bad audio) and audio (with good audio) file.

Choosing the video and audio clips, right click to choose Merge Clip which will bring up a window.

Again, it is best to pick Audio. One very important thing is to make sure that Remove Audio From AV Clip is pick. The AV Clip it refers to is the video clip with the bad audio.

Another sequence will appear on the Project panel. You can view it on the Source panel when you double click it. It may appear black and also longer than the original video but that is because the good audio file clip may have been turn on earlier thus the duration is longer for the overall merged clip.

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Adobe premiere pro productions panel
Teck

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/production-panel.html

https://youtu.be/gV-IEVsMz58

New launch feature to allow collaborative work between editors in the same project.

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100 Best Wordmark Logo Design | Creative Logotype Design | Lettermark Logo Design 

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100 Best Wordmark Logo Design | Creative Logotype Design | Lettermark Logo Design 

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Poh Khim

Awesome and ingenious wordmark logos!

A wordmark logo is a text-only typography representation of a logotype style which is a creative arrangement and modification of words to display a visual identity for a brand that will hopefully leave a lasting impression in the logo, also it called by Wordmark, Lettermark, Logomark & Logotype for a designer.

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100 Best Wordmark Logo Design | Creative Logotype Design | Lettermark Logo Design

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Stories In Place: Coco’s      Variety Shop

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Stories In Place: Coco’s      Variety Shop

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lye lin
A strong message for all of us. Love the style and the supportive visuals.

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This is How Famous Movie Sounds Are Made

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This is How Famous Movie Sounds Are Made

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- How Foley artists use their creativity, imagination to show you the incredible way sound effects are made into movies.
- Chan wp

https://youtu.be/0RjzUbLpaKw

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NTUC LearningHub free course – Adobe Photoshop CC Baginner

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NTUC LearningHub free course – Adobe Photoshop CC Baginner

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lye lin
Learn about the types of documents and how resolution plays a role. Apply blending modes, and use layer styles. Save various selection stools and work with Quick Mask. understand color modes and create swatches, use adjustment layers, and work with filters and patterns. Use crop, transform, and add text to images. Finally, will understand how to print, convert color modes, and export to other file types.

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Korean short film animation Mom- A Mother missing home

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Korean short film animation Mom- A Mother missing home

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Lay Guan

This is a story about a woman who was a baby, a daughter, wife and mom.
The team has created their own version of the human. I personally like the scene when she was walking back to her village where she previously lived. It was a very silent scene which made me feel that I was there.

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Oasis Award Winning Animation l Short film by Omen Studio

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Oasis Award Winning Animation l Short film by Omen Studio

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Lay Guan

This animation is about a monkey with his diamond.
His diamond has the power to make the rocks surrounding him to fly up and join it together to form a creature.
I like the animation of the monkey's facial expression and the dessert scene.
The sound effects are appropriate by enhancing the emotions.
It deserves the award.

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10 Lessons from the Top Film Editors

Geh Chew Huat

Film editing is both a creative and technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The terms is derived from the traditional process of woeking with film which increasingly involves the use of digital techology.

I'm not an editor and I enjoy watching analytical video that teach me storytelling.

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Lay Tju

Singer With The Biggest Vocal Range EVER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKfOp59jrXE

I'm enjoying watching this video. Dimash sings with soul. Amazing emotions and very high range.

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Working from Home: How to Set Up Your Workspace

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Working from Home: How to Set Up Your Workspace

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Joseline

Some stuff I like from this video

1) Do not mix work with domestic activities or leisure activities like video

games or TV programmes, i.e. if working in the same space with other family

members who are watching TV, try not to face the same direction as them.

2) Sound advice like setting up a temporary workspace using a foldable table which can be set up and folded away at set times to simulate a real work day at  the office, thereby enforcing discipline and keeping a proper work/life balance.

3) Keep a small whiteboard listing the tasks for the day and checking off each

item on the list when completed to help pace oneself and again enforcing

discipline and helping one to keep to a deadline.

4) Search for "Ambient Noise" on Youtube. There you will find tons of ambient noise compilation by Youtubers, some running for hours, so you could just select one that you like and play it in the background while you go about your daily work routine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMTxikrSe8g

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There Are No VFX in This One-Shot Video, Created Entirely In-Camera on a Massive Set

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There Are No VFX in This One-Shot Video, Created Entirely In-Camera on a Massive Set

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"In the video, a single tracking shot moves through what appears to be the same room, over and over, as it becomes smaller and increasingly claustrophobic."

https://nofilmschool.com/2017/07/no-vfx-music-video-shot-in-camera-on-massive-set

Mesmerizing video until you watch the making of. Sometimes it is what we know to guide what we think to produce great ideas. Not that we need to build a 100ft installation but sometimes it's just thinking out of the box. Enjoy...-WT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uRTjfhIf4M

Awesome view about what is free will against the background of laws of physics.

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JJ Lin- A song for you till the end of time

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JJ Lin- A song for you till the end of time

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His song 很难听😱. The visual not 🤨so fantastic. The 360 degree visual technique is good👍. 😂😂😂😂😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Hear the individual isolated tracks that make up The Beatles’ classic ‘Here Comes The Sun’

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Hear the individual isolated tracks that make up The Beatles’ classic ‘Here Comes The Sun’

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Mokhtar

The clip isolates each member of the band’s input on the song and with it, we’re allowed a brief deconstruction of one of The Beatles greatest ever songs. While so much acclaim is lauded on the band’s principal songwriters, the video offers up a crystalline image of the band’s parts working together as one.

The band mastered the art of simplicity. It's such an optimistic song that make you feel better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usMLf62YzBg

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Paper Boat – Illustration with iPad Pro   

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Paper Boat – Illustration with iPad Pro   

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Poh Khim

It was somewhat calming and relaxing to watch how Gal was illustrating. He makes it looks so simple. He pays a lot of attention to detail but keeps his designs simple, clean and modern. It reminds me of Google’s banners.

This video also goes to show how technology has given designers the flexibility to design on the go.

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Light By Bedside - Mother Taught Him How To Be Brave

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Light By Bedside - Mother Taught Him How To Be Brave

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lye lin

It was so heart touching, boy was doing housework chores after school, what a good son. But he’s doing everything for his mother, mother could give him a hug or kiss and bring him to bed.

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In this short video, what does production design do in filmmaking. It set the mood, character and theme for the film.

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Production Design — Filmmaking Techniques for Directors: Ep2

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Lean 5S   (Online Courses from NTUC Learning Hub)

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Lean 5S   (Online Courses from NTUC Learning Hub)

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Neo
WHAT ARE THE FIVE S'S (5S) OF LEAN

5S is defined as a methodology that results in a workplace that is clean, uncluttered, safe, and well organized to help reduce waste and optimize productivity. It's designed to help build a quality work environment, both physically and mentally. The 5S philosophy applies in any work area suited for visual control and lean production. The 5S condition of a work area is critical to employees and is the basis of customers' first impressions.

5S stands for the 5 steps of this methodology: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain. These steps involve going through everything in a space, deciding what's necessary and what isn't, putting things in order, cleaning, and setting up procedures for performing these tasks on a regular basis.

The 5S pillars, Sort (Seiri), Set in Order (Seiton), Shine (Seiso), Standardize (Seiketsu), and Sustain (Shitsuke), provide a methodology for organizing, cleaning, developing, and sustaining a productive work environment.

LEAN 5S PROGRAM BENEFITS

Benefits to be derived from implementing a lean 5S program include:

Improved safety

Higher equipment availability

Lower defect rates

Reduced costs

Increased production agility and flexibility

Improved employee morale

Better asset utilization

Enhanced enterprise image to customers, suppliers, employees, and management

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The Wolf of Wall Street Film Blocking Techniques | Director's Playbook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLASrjAYjwg

To keep the story in focus, the director uses a few techniques to his advantage. First, he uses eye lines to help guide the viewer's eye, helping to motivate the camera's pan over to the conference room. He also uses a series of "hand-offs" to help keep the viewer focused on what is in front of them, while still being able to effortlessly glide between them.

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Daniel Arsham – Art from the 31st Century | The Hour Glass

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Daniel Arsham – Art from the 31st Century | The Hour Glass

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Tian Soon

"This is form a series sponsored by The Hour Glass.

Daniel Arsham is an American contemporary artist based in New York City. His works revolve strongly around the concept of a hypothetical future time, attempting to materialise his ideas and concepts through art/cultural mediums such as architecture, archaeological sculptures, drawings and films."

Art created under the umbrella of "Contemporary Art" is sometimes mired in controversy. Just search "Jeff Koons Reclaims the Throne as World’s Most Expensive Living Artist" and you can see for yourself the kind of art accepted by the "highbrows" of the art world, which borders on the mundane and superficial. Just expand a mold of an inflatable plastic rabbit or something commonplace with expanding rubber solution (yah, you heard that right - there is such a thing) and then cast it with some super duper material, polish it and paint it with something real glam glam and you have expensive art to sell. Sorry for the rant but that sounds a lot like cheating or, worse still, plagiarism!

Such is the context with which I critiqued this video after witnessing instance after instance of using real world objects as the center piece of his artwork. Just give it a watch, they are all there - Venus de Milo, Pokemon, Super Mario, c3po, Snoopy, Ernie, Big Bird, NY Mets baseball cap, vintage camera, etc., etc. Sure, his art is about more than just those things and he does cast them with interesting materials and degraded them to give a worn down, apocalyptic feel. But his having a large entourage of interns or staff sculptors to accomplish his 'vision' whilst he walks around giving directions is about as long a throw away from the image of a starving artist as one can get. I know, I know - I get it that big name artists like Michelangelo have been doing these kind of things for eons, making use of apprentices to help out - but, and this is a very big BUT, pun fully intended - only with mundane tasks.

"Did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel by himself? - Quora. Kate Graham, History and travel dork. Michelangelo had numerous assistants to help him construct the wooden scaffolds, plaster the ceiling, and transfer the cartoons to the wet plaster. The actual painting was done by him and only by him, however."

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Lay Tju

The Godfather — How to Direct Power (Director’s Playbook)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwqDkyAmeY

This is like watching the story being told simply with camera movement!

The Godfather analysis in this video essay focuses on how the director used blocking and staging to visually capture the power dynamics within the Corleone family. Specifically, how Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) takes his first steps towards inserting himself in the family business...and his first steps towards becoming The Godfather.

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The Physics of the 'hardest move' in Ballet SWAN - Lake, Act 3

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The Physics of the 'hardest move' in Ballet SWAN - Lake, Act 3

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Lay Guan

Love the elegance of ballet moves. It is interesting how physics can explain why the ballet is able to balance herself through her dance moves.

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🤔Could our cameraman and producer give a try🤨? Starting plan small and simple, learn from mistakes along the way. 🤗Get out from the comfort zone, don’t 💪be afraid to try new things. 😎Producer could try out own trial project during low production period😂😂😂😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

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Why Does an Edit Feel Right?

-Wai Fong

Interesting video with useful pointers.

“Rhythm in film editing is time, energy, and movement shaped by timing, pacing, and trajectory phrasing for the purpose of creating cycles of tension and release."

Eye tracing what feel right in continuity editing is the smooth attentional shift across cuts. Learnt from this video that editor do not necessarily always go for perfect smoothness.

Sometimes a cut can do more than preserve continuity, if artistry of another order is available. As shown in video, mismatch cuts for the 2 characters (the man and an owl). The cuts disrupt the rule of smooth attention but it feel right. The cuts feel right as it create a movement phrase and make audience think, feel through the rhythm of movement.

What feel right to the editor is the movement that trigger embodied simulation response.

Our body will response to movement by mirroring it, that’s how we know what it means, that’s how we can empathy with movement. As shown in video - Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock, the editor prioritize movement phrasing over perfect focus.

Make audience feel with the character using camera movement.

https://youtu.be/f7fHwLEtx3U

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A Day in the Life of a Production Assistant

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A Day in the Life of a Production Assistant

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https://youtu.be/UPBfoEFgR28

This video shows a day of Colin West Mcdonald's life as a Production Assistant.

This video brings back so many memories, for I have also been a production assistant, about 12 years ago when I was a young fledgling looking to take flight into the media industry. As such, I will give a little insight into what my life was like when I was a production assistant on a children's cooking show.

Production assistants aren't always appreciated. As Colin mentions, they are usually the lowest lifeforms on a film set. However, much of what they do impacts the whole program/film.

This is also true in a local context, perhaps even more. As a production assistant, one helps out doing menial jobs in the pre-production phase, like in my case, cold calling restaurants to ask if they would like to participate in the program.
After that, we would have to help with scheduling, taking down everyone's availability, from the cast to the crew and the locations and try to piece everyone together.

Once production started, I was also tasked with art design for props, the table setting, crockery and cutlery as well as decorations for the location . I also had to buy meals for everybody on set. On top of all that, I was expected to help the crew as a junior grip or as a camera assistant.
Need an extra to fill up an empty taxi stand? I would be there.
Need a bottle of water? I'd be there to offer you one.

Skipping meals weren't out of the ordinary then, for while everyone was having their meals, I had to prep for the next segment. By the time everyone was done and filming resumed, I had other tasks. However, for overseas collaborations or shoots with unionized/guilded crew, there was a rule that lunch time of 30 minutes only starts when the LAST person gets his/her food.

Once filming was over, I had to wash and dry all the cutlery, crockery and cookware. Packing all other items came after that.

As everyone made their way home, I had to go back to the office and pack and prep for the next day of shoot. Footage that was shot on that day was also handed over to the editor. Batteries were also charged. Only then, would I be able to return home.

At that time, I was working almost 16 hours a day. I would go to work at 5am and return home only at midnight. I barely saw my parents.

As I mentioned, PAs aren't always appreciated.

I remember the AD made a mistake in scheduling once and had me call the cast to reschedule. This local "celebrity" chef got upset when I told his personal assistant about a change in plans. As I was in charge of liaising with him, he called me up and railed at me over the phone.

One also had to be "smart" and learn the habits of the different directors, producers and crew. For example, one gaffer might like his filters attached close to the bulbs. Another might like it the other way around. Some doesn't want the PA touching the lights, so I just ran electrical points for them.

Early on, I made a mistake by employing one gaffer's lighting preference for another gaffer. He wasn't pleased and believe me, he made it known to me that he did not want it done up that way.

Up to this point, I'm pretty sure you guys think that it was all doom and gloom. It wasn't.

As I shuttled around the different departments, I learned.
As a junior grip, I asked the gaffer about his grip techniques and learnt those.
As a camera assistant, I asked the DP why he chose to shoot or light that way and I learnt.
As I helped the producers and directors, I learnt about scheduling, scripting, preparations for filming and directing.

I even had the honour of helping out with scripting and I wrote one segment of an episode.

Of course, in true TV fashion, nobody would ever impart their skills to you on the very first day. You had to keep working hard and observe them and learn first. Ask them a question about it later and if you don't get an answer, ask again.
I was happy when I finally got a straight answer from the DP one day. This person later became my mentor.

Production assistants may be the lowest ranking person on a film set but what they do impacts the outcome greatly. If there were no PAs, everyone else would have a much harder time working smoothly as they wouldn't be focused on what they are supposed to do. PAs take away all the menial jobs so that the professionals can do their jobs.

I remember thinking to myself then, "Man, you really got to love all this to eke a living in this industry."

And I loved every second of it.

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Evanescence's latest music video. Shot using iPhone by each band member in self-quarantine and directed via FaceTime. Might be the way forward in these new times for us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bvQHrMnxUw

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Evanescence - Wasted On You (Official Music Video)

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The basics of storytelling in most mediums like books, TV and film are essentially the same. You've got a beginning, a middle and an end. Words like setup, confrontation, resolution, climax, plot points all come up when you think about how best to tell a story. Put them all together well and perhaps you've got a pretty good fantasy novel, or a TV Western, maybe a sci-fi trilogy movie.

But what makes storytelling in video games so different?

I don't know if you've been reading all the nonsense I've been posting on these padlet pages, but if you have (I am truly touched), then you'd maybe remember that I previously touched on 360° videos. There was one key word within the gibberish I was typing that describes what 360° videos or VR videos are about. Interaction or interactivity.

Storytelling in video games is not vastly different from storytelling in regular mediums. Fans of the Final Fantasy series will attest to the wondrous stories of the games filled with excitement and tears, love and hate, beautiful world building, character introductions, plot twists (I'm looking at you, Sephiroth) and satisfying, or in some cases, unsatisfying endings. But the key difference is this: in a video game, you interact with the characters and to a certain extent, with the story.

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisStone/20190107/333798/The_evolution_of_video_games_as_a_storytelling_medium_and_the_role_of_narrative_in_modern_games.php

This chap wrote a long essay about the narrative in video games and it's evolution. But let's get down to the gist of it.

There are different types of storytelling or narrative used in games. A story can be told in a linear fashion, where no matter what choices you make or what you do, the story advances as it is. You have no control on how the story turns out. Your interaction with the story is just pushing it forward.

Then there is the string of pearls model, where the story is still told in a linear fashion, but you can put it on hold to branch out and go do something else like chop 100 wood for the villager or help a little girl find her cat. The story still turns out the same, but you have control over when you push it forward.

Next there is the branching narrative, where your choices affect how the story turns out. This is similar to those old choose-your-own-adventure books where your choices could lead you to the page that says: "You tripped and fell down the well and your story ends here." A random conversation might end up being a pivotal point in the game's story which decides what path you take or even how the story ends. A failed mission might mean you have to take a loser's route and work doubly hard to get a successful ending. Your choices or your performance dictate where the story goes.

Lastly there is the amusement park model, which is similar to the branching narrative, but less restrictive. In recent years, open world games like Skyrim or Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have become fairly popular due to the amount of freedom given to the player. In Skyrim, you can deviate from the main storyline and do hundreds of sidequests just by exploration of the vast open world and meeting different people, some who might give you quests. In Breath of the Wild, you are given one mission. Defeat Ganon. How you get there is solely up to you. Do you take the route the developers intended by experiencing every quest and dungeon? Or do you rush Ganon the moment you step out the starting area? Both paths are possible. It's up to the player's choice.

Over the years, games have been evolving to the latter two, where the player is allowed choices and have an impact on the outcome of the game or how they want to play the game. This means that nowadays, players have more interaction with games than before.

When playing a game, a player is interacting with the game through the rules provided by the game, which forms the basis of gameplay. This interaction also impacts how the story is told. By interacting with the characters of the game, the player becomes part of the story. Interaction allows the player to become the main character of the story, and thus the story is being told from the player's point of view.

So why am I sitting here prattling on about games when our bread and butter are videos? In the scant few years I have been here, we have tried our hand at an interactive video (perhaps more from before I joined). We are perhaps looking into 360° videos or VR videos. The important part of these two types of videos is interaction. Where better to learn from than the dark lord of interactive storytelling: video games?

In recent years, more narrative-directed adventure games have been released that deviate from standard adventure games. These games are very similar to choose-your-own-adventure games and even interactive videos. Telltale Games released an interactive story game based on AMC's The Walking Dead, which featured the story of said TV series, but giving the player the ability to make choices to drive the story where they want it to go and affect future events and sequels. This allowed players to personalise their own Walking Dead story.

In the essay linked above, there is a portion about interactive stories where there is a quote from Graham Reznick, a Hollywood writer. He says, "what’s exciting about games, and specifically narrative-based games, is that you can take that approach from filmmaking, the curated narrative, and then explode it out so that the designers and writers of the game are curating a narrative environment for the player, but the player becomes a complicit collaborator”.

So in a certain sense, narrative-based games are like an interactive video or movie, only difference is that this game-video-movie can have different story paths and endings instead of just one storyline and ending, and all this is decided by the player.

So perhaps there can be a lot we can learn about storytelling from video games. What type of story would be best suited for an interactive video? How do we decide where a story should branch? How many branches and endings should the story have? Where can we insert choices to have a better impact on the storytelling? What types of choices do we offer? What sort of characters work best in an interactive video? How do we go about giving maximum immersion for the player-viewer? How much interaction do we give the player-viewer? Are we allowing them enough freedom with how the story progresses? Or just minute decisions that might not impact the story at all? I personally think that the success of an interactive video and its story lies in how well the interactions between the player-viewer and the story are executed.

In conclusion, everyone should play more video games.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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How to Use Walter Murch's Eye Trace to "Direct the Eye" with Cinematic Editing

Lay Tju

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUK64UkTmW0

The director has dubbed this advanced directing technique, Eye trace.

Eye trace is a fancy term for directing the eyes of the viewer to certain portions of your frame through the use of a few different helpful methods.

Motion

Positioning

Color

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Baby Driver | Color Coded Characters

Lay Tju

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv7SiLVzFzw

The director uses colors and costuming to establish and develop characters. He likes to "color code" his characters to help differentiate between them on screen, but it also makes for an excellent opportunity to inform the audience about the characters in a more subdued way than through boring exposition.

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How Stop-Motion Movies Are Animated At The Studio Behind 'Missing Link' | Movies Insider   

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How Stop-Motion Movies Are Animated At The Studio Behind 'Missing Link' | Movies Insider   

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Poh Khim

Amazing how they bring objects to life, it involved years of work and over 100 handcrafted sets.

This was so inspirational to see and deeper than I thought. The level of dedication and patience they have is insane. I have a huge amount of respect for them, hats off to their work.

** This is a trailer to the video below. It's a good introduction to how stop-motion comes alive.

Missing Link Trailer #1 (2019) | Movieclips Trailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jCNhebfg8

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Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTE   Lay Tju

Satoshi Kon, one of the great visionaries of modern film. He developed a unique style of editing that distorted and warped space and time. A great director and a great video about him.

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lye lin

This short movie made me anxious and made me laugh. Just enjoy our journey, don't challenge the time, time will play its own role.

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Covid19 hit us out of a sudden and many companies were scurrying to find a Business Continuity Plan. In the past, which is just 3 months ago, telecommuting seems like a taboo subject to firms. Now, it has become a new normal. Many find it more fruitful to work from home as we could do away dolling up and commuting.
Because of this pandemic, we have no choice but to set foot in the future trend -- that is to work digitally. Of course digital transformation does not happen overnight, it requires a lot of discussion and adaptation. But it is a start.
We should look more deeply into digital work processes and introduce telecommuting once in a while when we return to the new normal.

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Know the types of camera movement available and when to use them

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Vincent Laforet - Directing Motion Lecture Sydney

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Rebecca

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/making-a-ted-ed-lesson-visualizing-complex-ideas#watch

This is just one of the videos in the compilation but thought it was a good place to start - Visualising complex ideas is the essence of programmes we produce, especially for curriculum programmes.

The key points highlighted in the video included:

1. Looking for a visual metaphor to explain the abstract concept (the example they gave was of a tree with branches and leaves to illustrate the idea of Big Data)

2. Seeking reference for overall style and design from the content (e.g. since the Big Data started in the 1960s, they took that as the guide for the overall visual style and designed characters and environments accordingly)

Beyond the content of this video, I think it's wonderful to also look at the video in terms of how they communicate these points across; clearly demonstrating the significance of visualising the idea of visualising complex ideas.

To take a look at other videos in the series: https://ed.ted.com/series/animation-basics

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Boon Sin
The video explicating colour psychology in film reminds me of the previous video I saw for PD, in which Tarantino’s bold use of colours created strong, memorable moments in his films.

A movie which illustrates this concept is “Hero” (2002), in which different scenarios are washed in different colour palettes to reflect the theme of the segment – red for passion, green for hope, etc. That movie was a beautiful piece of art.

An important point raised by the video is the need for pre-production planning to create certain effects visually during the filming, rather than wait for post-production work. While we are not trying to create artistic productions like Zhang Yimou, awareness of the colour composition in our productions could add to their effectiveness, as well as aesthetic quality. This might be something worth paying some attention to.

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The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

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The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

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Tian Soon

Love the clean, graphic style and well layout scenes. A style very much suited to small outfits or even singular creators.

Having said that, it is still no small matter to produce a 5 minute plus animated piece, however simplified the drawing style is.

While you're at it, check out his website and Tumblr page for more samples of his artwork.

http://www.benpearce.com/
https://albionworks.tumblr.com/

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/jane-hirshfield-the-art-of-the-metaphor

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Richard Steele

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Richard Steele

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Yun Chiang Chan

It is important to take care of your mental health and wellbeing as we adapt to a new normal.

You can perhaps, incorporate mindful practices into your daily routine as a way to cope with anxiety. Check out these recommended reads and eResources for tips as we navigate uncharted waters together.

From nlb.gov.sg/spotlight/wellbeing/2020-04-13-reading-is-to-the-mind-what-exercise-is-to-the-body

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Did an online course on IT Security, from the learning portal at NTUC LearningHub's Free Online Courses.  Very informative and clear. Learn alot on IT Secuirty,
1. threats from hackers,
2.  to create secured passwords,
3. how to use antivirus software
4. social networking.

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Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing - TED-Ed

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Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing - TED-Ed

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lye lin

The best explanation of animation, easy to understand while also explaining important concepts. by manipulating various bouncing balls, how the smallest adjustments from frame to frame can make all the difference

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Controlling Your Anger Before It Controls You.
Winston

Tips on how to control anger.

1. For every minute you are angry, you give up 60 seconds of happpiness.

2. Managing anger is not about never getting angry.It is about learning to recognise, cope with and express the anger in a healthy way.

3. Identify triggers.

.Take stock of the things that trigger your anger.
.Understanding the things that trigger your           anger can help you plan accordingly.
.Structure  your day to avoid the trigger or prepare yourself before you encounter circumstances which cause distress.
4. Talk to a friend.
.Find someone yoy are comfortable to confide in.
.make sure that you are working towards a solution or reducing your anger, and not merely venting.
.It is important to note however, that venting could backfire as you add fuel to the fire.
5.use calming scent.
.Find a room or space where you can be calm and relaxed.
Buy a scent that you love
6. Listen to music.
.Doing something you dislike may cause you to get angry, and you might carry this anger for the rest of the day.Plug in your favourite music to take your mind off the situation.
7.Have a change of environment.
.Try a change of surroundings if you tend to get angry at the same place
.If you always get angry while working out at the gym, try exercising at a park instead.

Nobody makes you angry; you decide to use anger as a response.

Emodule from OPAL2.0

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This type of masking transition , the producer and cameraman need to plan their shots to achieve. Not just by luck🤪 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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How to use Walter Murch’s Eye Trace to “Direct the Eye” with cinematic editing

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How to use Walter Murch’s Eye Trace to “Direct the Eye” with cinematic editing

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUK64UkTmW0

Jane

A very informative video.  To capture viewers’ eye, the eye trace is a good cinematic strategy then a rule.

When filming do consider what focus of the shot you think should be, remember to use the three methods.

1. Motion(Camera movement and the actors’ movement).

2. Position (the place of the subject and establish view)  and 3. Colour (to draw the viewers’ eye).

In this weblink, it is the same Rule of Six technique from Walter Murch, I found one of the  rule that caught my eyes.

Do you know what is 180 degree rule?

180 degree rule is a cinematography guideline that says two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to each other.

If the camera passes over the invisible axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line and may confuse the audience.

1)   Follow the rule

2)   Break the rule

3)   Bend the rule

Interesting and easy to follow.

Learn more at: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/walter-murch-rule-of-six/#1-emotion

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Vincent
The amount of times and efforts to design a good logo. pictures, music and sound effects must work together. a good logo will make you remember of a long long time.

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Stunning Parisian Cityscape Drawing w/ Guillaume Cornet

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Stunning Parisian Cityscape Drawing w/ Guillaume Cornet

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Poh Khim

I feel very inspired when I watch this video. The challenge in his art piece is that there is no room for error as he is not able to undo mistakes as he draws. This goes to show that with completing an art piece it requires a lot of planning, dedication any and passion.

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S6 Timelapse: Stunning Parisian Cityscape Drawing w/ Guillaume Cornet

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Short Film from Viddsee - “The Listeners”
While home alone, young Ravi makes a shocking discovery - an elderly neighbour uncle was taken away
in an ambulance and eventually passed away.  Ravi misses him. This film is about a child’s struggle in finding a listening ear.

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Lay Guan

After watching these two directors talked about their creative process, I realised
even professionals still continue to learn their craft.

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13 Creative film and video editing techniques

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13 Creative film and video editing techniques

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https://youtu.be/Fu3vhFlXV0w
SENG
Love this video provided by LAW.  This is not just for editing.  It seems that the entire production team should know what the desired effect is.  Especially directors and cameramans should know.  Only in this way can we know the desired shooting effect between each other.  what is match cut? what is smash cut? invisible cut?... There is no reason why chickens and ducks can't talk because they can't express the desired effect.

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How Prosthetics Are Made For Movies

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How Prosthetics Are Made For Movies | Movies Insider

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What is production design, I have thought of is it like setting a scene or prob. This is more than that, do we have experience in doing it?
Production design is to capture viewer visual and mood of the scene Daniel has share this link I think is good in explaining what is production design

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How TED-Ed animations are made | TVPaint interview

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How TED-Ed animations are made | TVPaint interview

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Tian Soon

Quite a long interview that doesn't really show me their workflow beyond the briefest of overviews since this is an interview after all and not a tutorial.

Doesn't really help beyond letting us know their stylistic influences, the school they went to, and how they approach their work on a daily basis.

They do highlight the fact that shortcuts and ways to get them a very much sought after because of the laborious and time consuming nature of the work involved, typically involving 2 to 2 and a half months' slog for a paltry 5 minutes worth of screen time.

They are also forced, it seems, to repeatedly mention TVPaint, the software sponsoring the interview no doubt.

P.S. Seems like every artist/animator working over there is an animation director. I wonder why? Do they work alone, or do they have interns working under them. If not, then there's no one to direct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxqe57goa4

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Editing techniques is required for editor, cameraman and producer. This is a skill where the knowledge of shooting a film to capture a viewer eye in visual that is smooth.
I feel good story with bad camera work or editing is also a bad production. Rule can be broken but smooth visual is a must.

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1. Audio effect called “Loudness Radar”, a kind of audio vector scope r waveform display to see the difference between the two recordings loudness or see the peak yellow audio level so that we can bring down.
2. Can import another premiere projects as a shortcut and go to different projects easily.
3. Create Master Project as a workflow of different project raws and title. Create shortcuts in master project to all those projects, can easily jump between project.
Collaboration features allows more control of the projects when working in larger projects which has “project locking” enables.
4. Add property in metadata display
5. Create your own custom bin in Effect library so that you can put in your most used effects.
6. Can save an animation as a preset with 3 different options to choose.
7. Use pen tool to adjust audio key frames.
“Track keyframes volume “ allow you to add or swap audio clips.

A good 👍learning video, need to have hand🤚 on practice.🤣

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Soh:- COLOR CORRECTION. Color correction is a technical process that fixes color issues and makes footage appear as naturalistic as possible. ... Color grading is also technical, but it's more of a creative concern. The color grading process adds atmosphere and emotion to shots by coloring footage in new, often unnatural ways.

https://youtu.be/4VxHskBLpCY

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What is a First Assistant Director? Job Description and Responsibilities of 1st AD on a Film set

This article is written by Masterclass.

In this article, clearly described what is first assistant director as well as second assistant director. The role and responsibilities of this job is important. Experience first AD can take over as director as and when is required.
Nice and clear and easy to understand