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Unit 5 Reflective Journal - Lim Lin Year 1 Production Arts for Screen

For the final unit of this year, we had to recreate a shot from a movie using blender, then using green screen add ourselves into the scene.  Parasite (2019) was chosen in the end as modelling the flood scene is an interesting challenge and I wanted to try recreating the different elements seen in this shot, especially the lighting effects and water. 

For research, I rewatched the movie to find shots that can be used as references from different angles then added these images as reference for the first block out so that the model is proportional to the actual set.

However, many issues were encountered as the focal length used to match closely with the corridor caused the water in the background to appear distorted from the camera view, not matching the reference well. 

For the second attempt, I added the reference image in the camera view background instead of a plane so it would easier to check the perspective of the environment. I also stuck to using a 65mm lens as from an interview from Kyung-Pyo Hong, the cinematographer for Parasite, that was what was used for the filming of the movie. Using this focal length, the water level aligned with the reference image.  

The main drawback of this lens was the distortion in the background, as the corridor was too long and the items at the back have to be scaled heavily to match with the camera view, but I kept using this since the horizon line of the water is more important and the items in the back are mostly hidden from the view. Using weighted normals helped to give the corridor more accurate shading, which would then be useful for the lighting setup. 

I then moved on to modelling the props, starting with the ceiling lights. From a different scene in the movie, the white light came from a ceiling light with one fluorescent tube and the second was a spherical lamp in front of the door. 

A separate blender file was used to model the pantry items, as I wanted to use an image reference to model the props easier.  

On the main blender file, the floating objects were modelled. I used the main file for these since the space between the objects was important and it will be difficult to readjust after appending. 

Later that week we were given studio time to record the green screen footage. The image below was the old block out used as reference for the lighting. The cupboard and clothes in the foreground were also modelled before I redid the scene, I would later on append those to the new file. 

Other than the blender scene, I also wanted to create a prop to look like the one the actor in the movie was holding. Using paper mache and acrylic paint, this was made over a cardboard box. I used a picture from the set as reference for its shape. The colour and overall shape was not exact, but I decided to leave as such since it will not be obvious in the actual footage. 

After the greenscreen was recorded with the help of the technicians, we were taught how to do compositing on blender.

While the process of modelling small items shown in the scene was straightforward, texturing required some guesswork and research on Korean brands seen in the picture. I was not able to match the same product but found items that looked similar from a distance. For the textures of these props, I used images of related products online, either from the same brand or items that resemble packaging that I cannot recognise from the photo. 

To model other props such as the light switches and ornaments, I used other scenes from the movie as reference for modelling and made simple shapes that have the same properties as the actual items. 

For the clothes hanging in the foreground and background, I sculpted the shape then used base colours which matched the reference more in the rendered view. As high contrast settings were used for the render, the base colours of the textures used have to be light for them to not appear too saturated or dark in the final render. This also applies to the walls, ceiling, and other large spaces. 

This also affected the reflectiveness of certain props such as the frame seen on the left, as adding a glass pane or lowering the roughness of the image texture would result in the object appearing too dark. Hence, I decided to instead opt for increasing the roughness for the value to match with the reference image. 

The pipes and cables on the ceiling were then added, along with furniture blurred in the background. I did not add much detail for the obscured props since it was hard to see, and I plan to add depth of field to blur the background. For the view from the door, I used the reference image as texture for the plane. 

To recreate water shown in the scene, an ocean modifier is added onto a plane. This was the hardest part of the environment as it was not an accurate fluid simulation but was more suitable for this project. To make the objects float on its surface, each prop had constraints to a different plane with the shrink wrap modifier applied. The influence of the constraint was also lowered so the floating of the props appeared less erratic in the animation. 

Various area lights were added across the environment to replicate the cross shape seen in the reference. The radius, strength and colour were done using trial and error to find settings that give the closest result. When setting up the material for the water, the viewport render worked but after using the recommended render settings the scene lighting was heavily affected. I struggled a lot with the material setup as during the first attempt at rendering, the water looked like this image below. 

Many changes had to be made, such as redoing the water material, adjusting the scale of the ocean, and changing various settings that caused the simulation to be too rigid. The water setup I first used was based on a YouTube tutorial I watched for the material for the second unit, but it caused many issues with the scale of the noise texture, so a quicker method with principled BSDF was used instead.  

This was the setup used to match the render closest to the viewport. The size of the ripples was caused by the ocean modifier, but after adjusting it the floating objects’ speed was too fast and the animation looked unnatural, so the constraints were adjusted accordingly afterwards. After adjusting the water texture, I began timing the flicking of the lights based on the greenscreen footage. 

Depth of field was also added to the camera to replicate the blurred background seen in the reference. While this helped to make the background resemble the scene closer, I also should have put less detail on objects that are obscured by the effect, such as the pills in the foreground and washing liquid in the background. 

Final touches were then made to the scene by adding more image textures to the items and fixing the bevel of the cupboard for sharper lighting. More lights were also added to the environment to correct dark spots that were not shown in the reference. 

Afterwards, sound effects of a thunderstorm were added to the video with Premiere Pro as well as the VFX breakdown. Overall, I was able to learn a lot about VFX and postproduction and thought this was a fulfilling conclusion for our first year. After watching the render, I feel the water physics and chroma key could be further improved, as so I would continue looking into different features of 3d modelling in the following year. 

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Tuesday (im so tired)

i didn't sleep well i think i'm actually a little obsessed atm ive just been not sleeping or waiting well but its kind of chill and i slept in and missed an appointment that wasnt important so thats pretty relaxed of me i feel and i has a great time bouldering im just a little all over the place now cos ive stayed up too late - insane amount of studying this day but i just want to say its mainly because of swedish which i'm only sort of counting and i got super into a biology essay tonight and spent way longer than i should have cos i was having such a good time anyway gotta make this quick cos im going to bed

been listening to classical music for the first time ever and it kind of goes hard esp. vivaldi four seasons winter

studied cell structure some more, got the whole weeks work done today somehow so i'll have to think of some revision to do for bio

had a boring but moderately fun time with sociology, im studying research methods at the moment im not yet a fan

had a good time with art history which im proud of cos i had the feeling like i was dreading it and then i remembered i like a challenge and then i had a good time

finished unit5 of swedish aaa

loving the byzantine icons course - bit about iconoclasm enjoyed a lot

wrote an epic essay on the history of cell biology + cell structure loved it but im knackered

havent read + hardly knitted + sketchbooked ive just been really busy, im going to read a bit of women in the picture now though

posted last nights study with me in which my cat disrupts by sitting on both my notebooks

frazzled + in my head got to go to bed im sure im forgetting something

actual subject study: 6h 30 (5 of those hours is bio :0) extracurricular sort of stuff: 3h 10 (2h 20 of that is swedish total: 9h 40

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Western Feminism

“Western feminist” is a new term that I learned for Unit 5. I’ve heard of westernization,but hearing the term related to feminism is simply interesting. You hear this term in the first reading of the unit: “’Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles” by Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Mohanty defines “western feminist” as the opposite of “Third World” feminism with there being no way of them crossing paths in definition (502). Western feminism is western women searching for equality through women’s struggles - excluding non-white, non-western women, reinforcing homophobia, and excluding social classes. Mohanty called western feminism “mainstream” because it’s basically white women looking for equality. Heather Switzer also uses the term in her article called “(Post)Feminist development fables: The Girl Effect and the production of sexual subjects.” Switzer identifies western feminism as white, liberal, and characterized by “the ‘will to improve’ the self and the Other” (351).

An example of western feminism would be a white woman explaining her struggles as simply a woman. She has no other struggles because she is not a woman of color. She is straight. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. She’s the perfect image of what a woman should be, yet she is oppressed because she is a woman and is ranked lower than men. 

Western feminism excludes literally everything except gender. Even though it includes gender, it is still excluding parts of gender. Transgenders, intersex people, aliens, etc. are all being excluded here because they are not in the eyes of westernized people. They basically should not even exist in most cases. Western feminism is dangerous because of how much it excludes. Is it even really feminism? If you look up the definition of feminism on Google, you get the basic definition, “the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.” Yet, everyone has different definitions of feminism that includes way more than Google’s definition, who uses the Oxford Dictionary. Including the word westernized just seems a bit redundant in this case.

Word Count: 338

Sources:

Mohanty, C. T. (2003). "Under Western Eyes" Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles. Signs, 28(2), 499–535.

Oxford Dictionary. (n.d.). feminism. Google. Lexico.

Switzer, H. (2013). (Post)Feminist development fables: The Girl Effect and the production of sexual subjects. Feminist Theory, 14(3), 345–360.

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Tutorial (week 6)

Only two people showed up including myself. 

We were advised that we loaded ourselves with too many unnecessary tasks. I completely agree, because making 3 routes and 3 videos seems pointless with exact same process of making. Why don’t we use this time for some creation and innovation? Eric, Serena, and I met today and discussed future directions for our product. This is the point where everyone needs to have a voice and decide, but this seems impossible. Sometimes democracy is too nice for people who don’t want to have a choice.

I talked to my friends from my course and both of them feel a lack of motivation and energy at this point. The project has been too long and people cannot focus anymore. We lost the passion from the first sparkle shined on our first meet, our new ideas. Here is where we need to be drawn back from our dreamy souvenir ideas and be practical, and actually solving irritating problems that keep coming up in the process of making. It’s the tedious phase we have reached. 

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Set Your Mind Free

Most of the time when I think about conservation efforts, climate change, or biodiversity loss… I feel hopeless! In the reading this week “convergence between science and environmental education” they mention the importance of addressing the issues in many formats that allow many different people to interpret and learn about these urgent issues that require the human population to change the way they live. They talk about the need for Environmental Education and Science Education to work together to teach citizens to adequately respond to the complex nature of sustainability challenges.

I found the reading interesting as Environmental Education was never something I had thought about! As children we are often told to sit our desks, put our hand up to speak, and answer pre-defined questions that are determined to be right or wrong. We are not raising children to be curious anymore, who are good listeners or have empathy. Environmental education aims to i) develop capacity to think critically, ethically, and creatively ii) make informed decisions about these situations iii) develop the capacity and commitment to act individually and collectively in ways that sustain and enhance the environment (Wals et al, 2014). These goals to education allow for people to solve complex problems and develop possible solutions to the complex interdisciplinary problems our world faces daily.

Personally, I have become accustomed to filling in the neat boxes on questions and when I am forced to engage with the material I FLOP! I often cannot fathom being asked a question that might not have a right answer and I find myself guessing what my teacher wants to hear instead of coming up with new solutions even if that eventually is proved to not be a solution or is not agreed to by my teacher. Therefore, I think that Environmental Education is an amazing idea for our school system as it encourages originality and integrated solutions for our future. It also encourages adults to ditch the “there’s only one right answer” mindset for interdisciplinary problems!

This week’s readings remind me of the YouTube video “I Sued the School System” by Prince Ea which brings up a lot of points on how our school operates which can destroy confidence and ideas that are outside of the box! Outside the box thinkers are now needed more than ever with our global crisis’s that have few real solutions that have the intended effects when carried out in the real world. He goes on to argue that “we do not need to make robot zombies. The world has progressed and now we need people who think creatively, innovatively, critically, independently with the ability to connect” and that we need to reach the core of every heart in the class as this is where real change comes from. Passion is so important in finding solutions to modern day problems, perhaps this Environmental Education can help us do that!

References:

Wals, A.J., Brody, M., Dillon, J., Stevenson, R.B. (2014). Convergence between science and environmental education. Science, 344 (6184), 583-584.

I Sued the School System By Prince Ea on YouTube link

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