Creating The Sound Collage

Creating The Sound Collage

From looking at the feedback from my class members and teacher me and Ellie decided to ditch the second song and add a sound collage, layered with different sounds, this will give a sense of normality and give the location the sense of danger that it requires. Hopefully the sound collage will also give the scene the urban feel that it currently lacks. We have used a number of different sound layers such as car alarms, dog barking, baby crying and police sirens. Each individual sound symbolizes the life of our main character, they also symbolizes the stereotypical neighbourhood she lives in. All the different sounds are ambientmsounds taken inspiration by "Fish Tank". I edited the layers of sound on MixPad. As my role of editing sound I had to find these different sound effects from copyright free websites to ensure our work was royalty free. Below is an image of the editing process for creating the final mp3 layer that will be added to Premiere and into our film opening. Most of the sounds we have used are ambient a sound found in one of the films we responding to. 

Because we wanted the sound collage to appear it was coming from outside I had to manipulate the sound levels and equalize some of the sound effects. After playing around with each individual sound layer I was able to put them into place at the right volume levels, ready to be converted to an mp3 file and added to Premiere. This is an image of the sound collage in place, in premiere where it will be throughout the film opening.

Sound Collage - ambient sound

Sound Collage-Ambient Sound

From looking at the feedback from our class mates and teacher we have decided to create a sound collage. We will include background noise to represent and symbolize different aspects of our main characters life. We will use a dog barking sound effect; this will show the ever constant shouting and abuse received by her father. A police siren to represent the rough and violent neighborhood that she lives in. a car siren to represent the violence received from school and the need for attention that she lacks. We will also use minor sound effects that we will just record from outside to give a real natural feel to our work.

New Ideas

New Ideas

Feedback + Criticism

Feedback + Criticism

After showing our class the film opening we gain feedback from our teacher and other class members. We were marked against; sound, camerawork, mise en scene and editing. Overall we received very strong feedback; there were many complements but also much constructive criticism. For sound we were told that we should not include the second scene but create a sound collage of different symbolic noises that can represent the life and class of our main character. For camerawork we were told that our shots were steady and the use of symbolisation in our shots was clear and understandable. Many shots were filmed brilliantly and gave many symbolic scenes to represent the status, class and personality of the main character. Our mise en scene was seen and ok, many people thought it was good and showed much about the character and location but others believed we should include some extra shots to show more about the storyline as opposed to just the character. We have planned to film some extra shots that will indicate where the story will go and what the themes of the film will be. We was also told that our editing was great, the use of colour correction and adjustment of brightness was visually attractive and symbolic to the theme of the film. Our film opening also showed continuity.

Favourite Shots

Favorite shots

Below are some images of my favorite shots. I like these shots as they are visually attractive and symbolize Alisha's character in different ways.These images represent her as a person, something beautiful covered and surrounded by everything else, she as a character and person is waiting to blossom, and the other shots represented her status and class, this shot was filmed out of focus to symbolize the fact she doesn't matter, she is an ordinary person in the background and shouldn't be of any importance. I also like the title we have put in our film opening as it looks appealing and stands out.

 

First Cut

First Cut

Today we have continued to edit our film opening. we have placed all the camera shots that we have filmed and added all our titles. We have also included our own production company logo and  the logo of 4. we decided to not include Entertainment One or Warpfilms as we believed it would have taken to much time and we would have much time to include our primary sources. during the editing stages we have also begun to edit the way it looks, applying different colour corrections where necessary and adjusting the colour/brightness. below is our first cut.

Opening Titles

Opening Titles

Today I have watched films of a similar genre and distributors, in these films I viewed the opening credits and was able to see what credits we should include in ours, below is a list in chronological order of the roles that will be included:

Actors

Casting direct

Costume

Music supervisor

Composer

Production designer

Editor

Directed of photography

Co Producer

Screen play

Producer

Director


These are the list of the credits that we can choose from. Because we only have 2 minutes to show ours we cant have all the titles so we will therefore choose the appropriate ones when we put the titles in. The highlighted credits are the titles we included in our film opening.

Below are some images of the credits we have included:

 

Filming

Filming

Today we have filmed with Alisha in a council estate, the shots we filmed today will be used to help show the location of the scene and set the feel of the film. The location is very important in our film opening as it tells the audience what type of place it is set in and allows the audience to think what themes may occur during the film. Today we have taken a majority of close ups, this was deliberate to allow the audience to see certain aspects of the setting and character. The use of close ups also allow the audience to see fine details of the scene. Below is are images of us filming outside and inside

Filming Restrictions

Filming Restrictions

Due to location distances we have decided to film somewhere else, as opposed to travelling all the way to ponders end we have decided we shall film somewhere much nearer and accessible by doing this it will make it easier to film there again if we are required to re shoot. Originally we were going to film at the estate over at Ponders End. This was because we believed the iconic block of flats at Ponders end would help show the location and status of our main character. We have decided to shoot over at the council estate at Harlow this much more accessible and still provides similar flats and areas that can help signify and represent the status and class of our main character.

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These two images show the difference in distance from where we live and where we could film. the first image is the distance from Ware and Ponders End, the second image shows the distance from Ware and Harlow. After choosing  to film in Harlow as opposed to Ponders end we have collected some new images of the location.

Editing

 Editing

We have began to edit our film opening, so far we only have a few shots but have started to add titles and credits, we have also added production company logos and our own production company logo, we have added the non copyright music as well to build emotion and create sympathy for the main character. Here is an image of our video production in premiere as we are editing