Nazirul Syarqawi

Inspired and to inspire.

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Sometimes rules are just meant to be experimented and broken, just like these films. Eye-opening indeed! 

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The idea of having different lengths of scenes can give a whole different meaning to the scene, without adding any extra details or lines, through the audience’s curiosity of wanting to know why and what is happening next. A useful for editing when deciding how long to hold a scene for.

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When thinking about how to edit, some tend to delve into the technicalities of it straight away. I’ve realised that i tend to pick up inspirations first before the technical aspects of a particular reference material when planning and executing my editing process. So this video is a good insight on how others do it as well ( perspective and technically) and what they see when they see the footage, the tiny details to find in each shot and as editors we can use that to accentuate details and emotions. 

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SHERLOCK: The Art of Symmetry from Celia Gómez on Vimeo.

Coming from one of my all-time favourite shows, Sherlock’s cinematography is amazing in its own class, with the use of symmetry perhaps hinting at the structured perspective with which Sherlock views the world. 

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“I don’t want to wait anymore, Léo. I want to die.”

Trouble Every Day (2001, Claire Denis)

cinematography by Agnès Godard

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The composition in these scenes, work through the use of leading lines, framing objects ( full or partial opacity) and rule of thirds. Definitely one to keep in mind when editing to ensure the scene is nicely laid out and balanced throughout

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So you’ve been just… totally fucking inconvenient.

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The neon colours in these are just so trippy!

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As part of my shooting as post-production, i included multiple movements to help create depth and progress within the storyline. This website was useful for me as it gave me a technical description of the movement and also a brief effect of these movements, with which i was able to adjust my post-production panning accordingly.

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Color Grade Like A Pro – The Secret To Cinematic Imagery | Fstoppers

Getting it right in camera is one of the most important steps to achieving a great photograph, but color grading is what can really take your work to entirely new level. It has taken me nearly 2 years to find the right process and perfect combination to obtain the right look. And, over the course of my time writing for Fstoppers, I've been asked dozens of times about the coloring and process behind my imagery. Well, I've finally broken it all down in one quick tutorial.

A different guide to colour-grading as it deals mainly with still images, but the idea of which colours and what aspects of the scene to be adjusted is still pretty useful.

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Interesting how they used the James Bond shot seen in the thumbnail and colour graded to two possible time of day, either early morning or late in the evening simply through adjusting the contrast, highlights and colour temperature. That’ll help me give my shots the sensation of being at different times of the days even though i shot it pretty much at the same time

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This was a fun video which looked into the application of colour dominance in different shots to give a different feel to it. It’s a bit more extreme than the colour grading i would need, but it does emphasise better the roles and effects of each of the main colour, here indicated by the video title (R = red, O= Orange etc)

Doing the colour-grading for the major project now, it’s useful to have a guide on what colours is appropriate to achieve the effect and emotions needed.

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The final video of a 3-video guide series from Julian Melanson that i used while shooting my video, this one talking about the cinematic framing of a subject. It was useful for me during my shooting as a guide on how i should frame and what kind of meaning i should and could get out of my shots. Definitely a quick and effective guide!

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One of the problems i faced with my minor works was that some shots felt too static, there were no dynamic movements of the cameras so it felt flat at places. This video is a good guide on the importance of camera movement wand what each type signifies. For example, the idea of handheld push-in shots versus a dolly push-in shots have different implications and effects for the audience’s relationship to the video.

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I’m going through the post-production stage at the moment and this video highlights some of the choices i could make during editing. For example, extending longer cuts to highlight subjects, person of interest and effective transition techniques

The video is quite helpful to see what i should be focusing on, how i could do an effective edit with the same range of shots. The idea of understanding the video from the audience’s perspective to ensure the story is well transmitted is a key concept i have to ensure when shooting and editing my videos

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As with shooting on an overcast, the post-production work is key to ensure i get the colours and contrast i need. Here’s a video i used  to get the colour correction right on my shots, and it worked pretty okay for what i needed it to do.

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One of the considerations i did for my outdoor shooting days was to aim for cloudy days. As my phone camera did not have a high dynamic range and based from shots, do not fare well in high contrast shots, i decided to shoot my outdoors scenes in cloudy days

The video’s a good guide on a few things i needed to do for shooting on an overcast, which i faced problems such as getting bright colours out. It was definitely worth an extra effort to get more even lighting, like a natural softbox one might say

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Wonderful use of music and sound effect to create that dark suspense. Useful to think about sound effects when doing my music video. 

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Borrowed Time from Borrowed Time on Vimeo.

The composition and storyline in this short film is inspirational, with minimal lines said a whole story was conveyed through human sounds and emotions. It’s always good to look into animated films for inspirations as part of my video work as they are not bounded by physical human parameters, and thus are more open to imaginations and visuals. So i’ve looked into some animated short films to see how they conveyed their story and see how i could apply similar techniques for my own short film.