Friday 29 April 2016

Evaluation for soundtracks

At the start of this unit, we had to do 3 workshops. In the workshops we had to complete strip the scenes of their sound and redo all of the music, dialogue and sound effects. The movie that I done was a scene from Mean Girls, one from Paranormal Activity and one from The Wire. These all had different aspects to them and each came with their own strengths and weaknesses.

The first scene that I redone was a scene from Mean Girls when they are in the canteen talking. For this scene I took off all of the sound and rerecorded the dialogue. Before doing this, I listened to the script to make sure that I got it right when it came to recording it. As there was two people in the scene, I used the help of Audrey to do one of the voice overs. I also used foley sounds as I recorded the college canteen to make it sound more realistic instead of getting the sound off of the internet. I think that this was a better idea because if it was something from the internet it wouldn't have had the right atmosphere as something that was recorded by myself. When adding the voice recording to the scene, we were watching the scene as we recorded it so that it matched up as best as it could. However, in certain parts, the dialogue didn't quite sync in with the timing of their mouths moving.

In the canteen recording, you can hear conversations happening in the background which are a little bit loud which makes the voices of the two girls a bit quite. When editing the scene I think that I could have made certain parts of the foley sound a bit quieter by adding in volume envelopes so drown out the background conversations to make the main conversation the headline.

The second scene that I redubbed was from The French Connection. This was a non dialogue scene so all I had to do was put sound effects on it to make it sound realistic. When it came to editing this scene, I first listened to the original thing to hear where the different sounds and where to put the new sound effects in exactly.

For some parts in the second clip that I redubbed, I used different sound elements to make the scene look more realistic. For example, I used editing volume envelopes when it came to a part of the sound effect when the car scene changed to a train on the track. I used the sound envelope to make the car fade out for the train to fade in at the same time.

After watching the completed scene that I had done, I noticed that something was missing. Before the gun shot, the policeman can be seen moving his mouth as if he was shouting at the man that he is chasing telling him to stop. I think if I had the chance to redo it again, I would add a little more sounds to make it that one bit better. 

Tuesday 12 April 2016

Create a proposal for both of  your soundtrack productions  that must explain in detail information about the following:


Brief description of sequence ( e.g name of film , length of sequence )
The name of the first film I am going to do is Mean Girls and the length of the sequence I am doing is 48 seconds.

The name of the second film I am going to do is called The French Connection and the length of it over 3 minutes but I am only going to do about 30 seconds.

Client  ( the director of your chosen film scene)
The director of Mean Girls is Mark Waters
The direction of The French Connection is William Friedkin
Sound Fx information
I am going to use 'live location' when doing the sound effects. I think that because my scene is set in a canteen, I want to try and record the college canteen to make the scene sound more realist when i put the sound in. In the scene the canteen looks and sounds like there us a lot of people in, which is the same as the college canteen.
For the French Connection I am going to use different types of sound effects from freesound such as car noises, gunshots, screams 
Spoken word information

Why don't I know you?


I'm new. I just moved here from Africa.

- What?

- I used to be home-schooled.


Wait. What?


- My mom taught me at home...

- No, no.


I know what home-school is.

I'm not retarded.


So you've actually never been

to a real school before?


Shut up.


Shut up.

- I didn't say anything.

- Home-schooled.


- That's really interesting.

- Thanks.


But you're, like, really pretty.


- Thank you.

- So you agree.

- What?

- You think you're really pretty.



- Oh, I don't know...

- Oh, my God, I love your bracelet.


- Where did you get it?

- Oh, my mom made it for me.


- It's adorable.

Personnel 
To complete the first film scene sequence, I will be working with Audrey to help me with one of the character voice overs. However for the second one I'll be doing it by myself. The second scene doesn't need anybody to speak on it as it is a non-dialogue scene.

Recording locations,equipment and software 

To record the voiceovers, I will be using an Apple Mac laptop and I will be using the software Garageband to record. I will be going to an empty classroom so that I don't have any distractions or background noise