Project Idea 2

For our second Project Idea, we wanted to create an atmosphere effect of a foetus in a womb. We wanted to add humour to this piece by using commentary from the baby such as, the disgust of what his mother is eating, the embarrassment of his fussy family and how un-comfortable he is within his mother.

We also thought about adding a 'horse racing' commentary for the conceiving of the child, with the sounds of the sperm swimming together. With this project we can experiment with the various microphones to achieve our requested affects, such as the Hydro Microphone and Directional Mic.

We will also be able to experiment with various sounds to try and mirror a baby in a womb.

Project Ideas

When me and my partner first met we decided to do a small spider diagram of ideas that we had thought of whilst being introduced to the project. We collected our ideas together and thought of numerous projects to create, this is the spider diagram of our ideas.

Picture to come.

Idea 1

We wanted as many sounds available and one of the ideas we came up with was a busy kitchen area, where someone is either cooking or baking a meal. We would have this sequence going in order, such as, opening of cupboards preparing the equipment for the meal, then the spark of a cooker being turned on with overlapping of other sounds such as eggs being broken and whisking noises at the same time. We then would have the hissing and spitting of meat being placed on a frying pan, and the low hum of an extractor fan.

We incorporated another idea from the one above of someone doing their weekly shopping in a supermarket.

Noises such as the squeaking of a trolley, then the rustling of carrier bags and goods bring brought off the shelve to be then thrown into the basket. With this idea we would have voices interspaced, such as a cashier talking or the calling of an intercom, and someone trying to sell certain food items.

With this idea I think it would be very achievable, we would have enough sound footage to fill the 3 minutes.

We would also have a large array of sounds to use. I also think the genre and concept of our project would be easily perceived for our audience to understand.

Sound Inspiration

Whilst I was watching Kill Bill 2, I noticed that the first fighting scene is very inspirational for the project I am creating.

Even though I have watched Kill Bill 2 before, i closed my eyes and played the first '2.30' (which is the fighting scene) to try and make sense of what may be happening, this is fully achieved as all the sounds used in this scene are ever day recognisable sounds such as, footsteps on grass, the low-pitch hum of a lawn mower, banging of car doors then the ringing of a door bell, quickly followed by footsteps opening the door. Once the door is open loud, serious music is played, immediately signalling something is happening creating tension. Throughout this whole sequence no voices are used.

The next part of the clip we hear fighting noises, such as punching and heavy grunting of the women fighting, we immediately hear glass smashing, choking of one of the characters and the banging of wood being used as weapons, all these sounds are interspersed within each other. All the sounds used are loud and repeated and many of them are over lapping.

This scene is very inspirational as sound is used to guide us through what is happening rather than a narrative being used.

Kill Bill Sequence 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg6rqDX-1wQ

Project 2, examples.

Once we was given the brief we was shown small examples of sound with no footage, we had to distinguish what each sounds where, and what affect it had on us. We had to look at how many layers are included in each clip and if the 'dynamic range' of sound helped create a sense of space.


Meat Factory, Ear worms.

This clip is a short documentary of a man's life entering and working at an abattoir. Within this clip we are given a narrative so we immediately know what the project is about.

Whilst he talks we can hear different sounds in the background creating a sense of space, we are placed directly into the slaughter house, noises such as cows and machinery with knifes clanging together can be heard. The narrator often digressed to his life outside the abattoir, such as meeting up with his work colleagues and finding a way to switch back on after his hard, gruesome day. Whilst he is talking about this we instantly hear car noises and cheery music is played, with the narrator singing along changing the mood of the story. I think the reason for this part is to show us the narrator switching on the end of the day, forgetting the horific sights of the slaughter house.
I found that this clip flowed and I understood from the offset what he was talking about.

My only concern with this documentary is that I didn't fully understand what he was saying due to his dialect, also, because he digressed a lot to happier cheery times, (with him singing and have fun with his colleagues) I did not know if I should have taken this clip seriously or not. All these factors I will take into consideration when creating my own project .


Tunnel Vision

This clip is a short documentary, giving us a small insight into the life’s of two different people, and their feelings upon entering the London tube train.

At the beginning of the clip we immediately hear the stopping and starting of the London tube. The doors open and the repetitive call of the women saying, "please mind the gap'. This sets the scene for the story.

We then hear the narrators commenting on their personal life’s. With this clip I found that it was rather embarrassing to hear as the narrators were revealing secrets, the listener would agree with this as the narrators often paused and coughed in embarrassment. None of these signs were edited out making the documentary very personal. A lot of the clips in this project were interspaced and it skipped from one narrator to the next with interspaced sounds of the tube in the background.
This documentary flowed and had rhythm, it was easy to understand as all the sounds where clear, this clip was enjoyable to listen to and has inspired me.

Creative Media Practice Project #2

On the 17/11/11 we were given our second project.

Again we had to work in pairs to create a '3 minute', Audio, 'Sense of space'. This project will contain no footage just sound, as no space is silent, sound always exists.
We are asked to look into how we can perceive given space as one of high activity, or of marked quietness. It can either contain that of human presence or even the presence of machines or nature.
Even though this project will contain no footage, I think it'll be exciting to create and experiment with sound as it is a major value to put into consideration.

Final Edit

Today ( 9/11/11) we have completed our final edit for 'Portrait of place'. After a lot of hours of choosing which clips go where we have finally polished off our film. Overall I have enjoyed making this film, it made us explore the country side using better equipped technology and allowed us to experiment with various effects to further our film. We have come across a few problems along the way, such as some of the footage being destroyed due to rain on the lense, and in post-production we didn't know if our film would bore the audience or not, but in our presentation we will see hopefully their full response. In this project I have thought outside the box creatively using the thought process of trees showing emotions. Due to the project being silent this has caused a problem for us trying to represent the theme of the film, but we have worked around this factor by using visuals such as De-saturation and opacity on certain images.

This project has given me experience with the camera equipment and it has helped me work on storyboards and shot lists which prove very helpful and I cannot wait for the next assignment!.

Editing 2

In this clip we wanted to show us editing and piecing together our footage.

Eventhough we did not use this effect, I wanted to show that we experimented with various effects to try and create an atmosphere for the audience.

In this image we wanted to show one of the transitions we have used, again it shows that we have experimented, and by doing this it has taught us how to use Final Cut Pro.

In this shot it shows the effect of Desaturation, it may not be inspiring to some but I think it portrays our effect of spooky a lot better than the actual colours.

This is the final image that we took and it shows the final piece of our project. We have begun to add the titles for our project once we for sure knew that it is perfect edited with no mistakes.