Overall Evaluation

We worked really well as a group with minimal problems which I think was reflected in the final piece, I was happy with the comments made about the Sound. Namely in the drinking scene as that was the part that I had envisioned from the get go, as well as that the instrumental throughout elements in the piece. Tutor and Audience responses to the movie was good and in my opinion this is one of the best pieces I have been a part of this year.

Post Production: Final Touches 09/05/2012

Today I came in once Joe had sorted the colour on the necessary clips, then I gave my opinion on the job he had done and pointed out a few other clips that could do with some colour correction, namely the clip where the girl is lying on the couch and gets up to close the blinds.

The clip on the left shows the original and the right is what it was changed to. I felt it was necessary to make it more blue as the interior is that colour because of the natural light due to the weather we were filming in/around.

Once that was done we fine tuned the piece up until the confrontation scene, tackling it last was the best idea as it was very frustration trying to either match the actors to their script or get all the dialogue levels to sound the same. At one point I decided to export certain sections into Soundtrack Pro to give it an echoed sound to match the other parts.

As well as this because of the rain starting and stopping it made it doubley difficult. It got to a point where there was nothing more we could do. So after another run through where nobody raised any qualms about the picture of the sound we were finished. All that was left was to come up with a name. I was against using a name at all as I felt it would seem forced and not really match the piece especially as it wasn't something we had considered until that point. Regardless one was decided on and we were finally finished.

Post Production: Sound Design 08/05/2012

Today I came in with all the relevant sounds, as per me and Joe's conversation on Thursday. We then went through the sequence and matched each picture clip with the clearest/relevant sound I had found and recorded. It was a long process that took most of the day but it was very rewarding especially when you matched a random sound to a picture and looked and sounded right, such as using a footstep for the sound of a rose falling on the floor. We did everything up to the confrontation scene, deciding to tackle that section tomorrow when we tighten up the edit and after the rest of the group had looked through it. As well as this Joe had some colour correction to do.

Sound List

After going through the sound recordings with the help of the Sound Log I was able to find the majority of the sounds needed for the post production stage on Tuesdays, though there were a few problems, namely that a few of the recorded sounds didn't sound long enough or did fell like it matched the sound that it was supposed to sync with. This mean that we would have to duplicate the sounds ourselves or possibly re record them. This again all depends on what we deem as useful or other wise as we continue to cut down the piece which was still over the limit.

Sound List for Post Production Drama Project

Tutorial and Post Production 03/05/3012

We showed our rough cut to Esther and knew we had a lot to cut down. She didn't have much to say about the piece except for a few shots that we should consider going to ref-ilm and of course that we had to get to cutting down the piece as it currently stood at 8minutes. As well as this there was no sound on the piece except for the confrontation scene. These were the elements that me and Joe had intended to work on today. So after the session we went to the edit suit and imported the sound that I had found to use a few days ago and edited the segments where the sound was going: The drinking and the graveyard scene. As well as this when it came to cutting down the piece I was very brutal and with the help and opinion of both myself Joe and Luke we managed to get the piece to just over five and a half minutes. Whilst this was happening Mark and Fraser went back to the Graveyard to get usable establishing shots for the opening. Me and Joe replaced the old clips with the new before calling it a day.
As well as all of this, as we went through the piece I wrote down all the different sounds I needed to find from the files me and Luke recorded. This would be easy enough as I had been keeping a sound log whilst the sound was being recoded on production days. All I had to do was look at the list, listen to a few of the possibilities then label them and bring them in for our next edit day so we could fit them in the right place.

The clip on the right is one of the new shots Fraser and Mark went back to the Graveyard to get.

Post Production: Soundtrack 01/05/2012

Whilst we were filming we knew the key sections that we wanted sound playing over. These scenes include primarily the Drinking scene as well as the Graveyard section, in the Elevator and during the build up to the Confrontation scene. I knew that I definitely wanted either a dubstep type or alternative track playing under the drinking scene and we came up with a few options.







But due to obvious copyright reasons it was either unattainable or would take more time than we had to get permission, but it did help narrow down the type of style I was looking for.

Frazer told me about a Youtube channel that had copyright free music (Activity Music) and after trolling through the different types of music they had I finally settled on FinalFix - Parastite.

I also found Elevator music that was marked under copyright free and I contacted the person who posted it and am awaiting confirmation

Finally for the opening Graveyard scene Joe led me onto a site called Incompetch (http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/) that has a source of royalty free music where I searched and found a sad piano composition. I had the editor agree with my choices as he would be editing to the sounds and with that done all that was left to do was organise and type up my sound logs in order to start sound designing by the end of the week