Reflection- Music

We have had an introduction lesson in garage band this week. In the lesson we started using garage band, it is pretty easy to use and i believe i will be able to make an alright soundtrack. As a class we have talked about what type of music suits different types of films. Next lesson i will go through the different sounds and get a rough idea of where i want each sound. Mr Andrews has showed me how to put my film into Garage Band so that i can see where I'm putting in the different sounds. I find garage Band easier to use than Final Cut; however, I'm not really musically orientated, so it might turn out a bit of a mess. In terms of sound, I'm going to have a lot of piano as different loops can be put together seamlessly where as if you're constantly changing between different instruments, it could start to look very messy, really quickly. Some of the different loops of piano that i have put in my favourites and am considering using, have either a erie, happy or sad feel to them. I'm going to decided which pieces of music i want to include and where before i put together my introduction. This is because i have been told that an introduction, should introduce the more frequently used loops that will appear throughout the film.

Reflection

2/8/10
I have been editing for a while now, as soon as i got the rough edit i started. I'm almost finished, i just need to tighten up the in and out point as I'm still sitting on 6 minutes something. i haven't been blogging as much as I'd like to as well. This is because i have a lot of other work to do and i just keep forgetting.

Reflection

It is now the start of week four and i'm finishing off my film. one problem i have had throughout completing this film is that Mr Andrews will tell me something or teach me how to do a certain thing, but when i go to do it for homework, i can't remeber. My memory has been a major issue. Overall, I'm not unhappy with my film, but i don't think its as good as it could be. For instance, my transitions aren't perfect and no doubt there are little things throughout the film that aren't cut properly. when i showed Mr Andrews my film, he was helping me pick up little mistakes with the editing and taught me how to really shorten the in and out times. One of the little things he picked up was in the hospital scene, when claudia is moving from a laying to a sitting position. this involved cut from one shot to another; however, i had it cut in a way that made it look slightly unnatural. This i fixed up after school and now i beleive it looks a lot better. The one thing i hate is the grave scene, it was filmed in the wrong format and looks disgusting. Also i didn't bother utting an effect over it or anything because i thought we were reshooting it which looks less and less likely. So i hope i don't lose marks for it.

Reflection

I have now officially finished converting files, it took a while and it was really annoying but it's finished. I have given the files now to Claudia and Bec. Bec has taken them and made it into  a rough edit.  I'm a bit worried about how long our movie is going to be if all the footage once in thr ough edit goes for 7minutes, 45 seconds. As 5 minutes, 30 seconds is the longest we can have, i'm going to have to edit really well.

Evaluation

There were quite a few problems and difficulties we encountered during the filming of Dossquell. One of the biggest was not having a fixed filming date which suited everyone. Bec and I did all we could in the boarding house that didn’t involve Claudia. We used class time very effectively (when Claudia wasn’t sick and was at school for the lesson) and got through all the necessary scenes that required non-boarding locations. Another big problem was that when we were filming in the boarding house the light was awful. At one stage as well as all the over head lights being on Bec and I had set up three additional desk lamps. When Bec was filming she would need to hold one lamp with her spare hand and I would be constantly adjusting the other two. Bec and I would have mini disagreements on how things should be filmed, I would state my vision, and then she would tell me if there was a way to make it work. Sometimes she would propose a compromise which just wouldn’t work in the story line, so we would have to continue to discuss.

There are an infinite amount of tricks, techniques and skills we discovered\learnt along the way. The desk lamps were definitely what I would call a trick. They were so useful; I must say Bec discovered that one. A technique we picked up practically from the start was that we would film everything numerous times. Even if we thought we got the perfect shot the first time, we would always try to improve it by filming it at least a 2nd and 3rd time.
I’m not entirely happy with my film process so far. This is mainly due to being a bit behind everyone, even though I know the standard of our footage is amazing, it’s just annoying being behind. I could improve this by working extra hard to catch up and once up to date not slacking off, keeping up with all my work.
I believe I (as an individual) have managed my time effectively but as a group we have not. Just trying to get time as a group to do everything was incredibly difficult and is the sole reason we are behind. Yet as I said before, the quality of our work should make up for it.
In terms of things needing to be changed, there isn’t a lot. As a group we have worked great together and the quality of work is amazing. Claudia is such a good actress and took direction better than I could have imagined. Bec works so well with cameras; she was a great producer and lessened most of the time to how the scenes should look. There is only one shot I hate and I’m disappointed that I didn’t argue my point strong enough. It is where Fiona has a flower on her desk and she is meant to be really wary of it because it’s the same one that hospitalized her (previously in the story). I wanted Claudia to act a little scared of it and perhaps poke it with a pencil (something like that) to show her being cautious but Bec insisted that it looked stupid doing it my way. The only problem now is that the audience will be confused and the story doesn’t flow as well.
If I could start again I would make sure we got all the filming done on time so right from the beginning of this term we could have been editing.
I don’t understand why these questions are in the evaluation but yes I have uploaded my footage to an appropriate computer for editing and because I brought an external hard drive this weekend, we can now back everything up.

Reflection

I'm still trying to convent footage and order and rename it all. I'm also starting to think about making an edit decision list. We have discussed a couple of different things talking about how we are going to edit the film, when it gets put together. I have a certain vision for the story; however, i don't think it is going to come across clearly. I want at the end of the film there be a heart monitor sound. This would allow me to make the ending really dramatic. I want there to be a sound present that signifies life, then after the shot fades away of her on the roof, i want a sound to end or flat line; this would ensure that the audience knows she died.

Reflection

This week was a very slow moving one in creative media, we were taught how to convert the footage into the correct format, that we needed it in to work with. Converting footage is a very boring task and due to how much footage we had it is taking a very long time. I will need a couple lessons next week to do it as well. I have to convert as fast as i can because Bec needs it for our 2nd rough edit. Last term we had half our rough edit just describing the shots that will end up in there. We are planning hopefully to finish shooting all our film next week. Bec just decided because she wanted to do the rough edit it was up to me to convert the film, so i did it to avoid a disagreement. As claudia was away a fair bit this week, i'm just going to give her all the converted film when its done. It isn't her fault she is sick. So the biggest problem this week for me, was how boring it is to convert footage. I overcame this because it has to get done and i'm the fastest at doing it.