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Video with no sound

I had to lower the quality to get this on to this blog. Boooo sorry!

all work

garage band stuffs

When I think of actually creating a track for the back ground in the add, I think of something with no words but a steady rhythm something that wouldn't sound out of place at a party. If we're trying to recreate a normal average party scene- in South Auckland, I would think that hip hop would be what would be blasted through the speakers and what everyone would be dancing to. I think there would be problems using actual songs of artists because of the whole copyright thing, but we could maybe create something similar our selves without actually copying anything. With us being pushed for time, it's a bit challenging.

what is white noise?

White noise is a sound that contains every frequency within the range of human hearing in equal amounts. Most people perceive this sound as having more high- frequency content than low, but this is not the case. This perception occurs because each successive octave has twice as many frequencies as the one preceding it. White noise can be generated on a sound synthesiser. Sound designers can use this sound, with some processing and filtering to create a multitude of effects such as wind, surf, space, whooshes, and rumbles. Pink noise is a variant of white noise. Pink noise is white noise that has been filtered to reduce the volume at each octave. This is done to compensate for the increase in the number of frequencies per octave. each octave is reduced by 6 decibels resulting in a noise sound wave that has equal energy at every octave.

white noise

Thinking of what to fill in the silence if there was to be silence in the film, I looked up white noise and sounds that I thought I could use. In youtube I came across a clip of under water sounds and I imported it into premier and using the equaliser in audio effects, I played around until the bubbling sounds were gone, lowered the pitch a bit, and then stretched it to get a sort of closed off noise, like you're being submerged kind of sound...

White noises.. and other colours

http://simplynoise.com/

I didn't even realise there was a site like this. I thought it was cool though.

Tips for Audio editing

I thought this was helpful and could probably be useful for experimenting.

Production Sound

·       Production Sound Mixer

The Production Sound Mixer is head of the sound department on set, responsible for recording all sound during filming. This involves the choice and deployment of microphones, operation of a sound recording device, and the mixing of audio signals in real time.

·      Boom Operator

The Boom Operator is an assistant to the Production Sound Mixer, responsible for microphone placement and movement during filming. The Boom Operator uses a boom pole, a long pole made of light aluminum or carbon fiber that allows precise positioning of the microphone above or below the Actors, just out of the camera's frame. The Boom Operator may also place radio microphones and hidden set microphones. In France, the Boom Operator is called the Perchman.

·       Utility Sound Technician

The utility Sound Technician has a dynamic role in the Sound Department, most typically pulling cables, but often acting as an additional Boom Operator or Mixer when required by complex filming circumstances. Not all films employ a Utility Sound Technician, but the increasing complexities of location sound recording in modern film have made the job more prevalent. This role is sometimes credited as Cable Puller or Python Wrangler.

Sound/Music

·       Sound Designer

The Sound Designer, or Supervising Sound Editor, is in charge of the post-production sound of a movie. Sometimes this may involve great creative license, and other times it may simply mean working with the Director and Editor to balance the sound to their liking.

·      Dialogue Editor

The Dialogue Editor is responsible for assembling and editing all the dialog in the soundtrack.

·       Sound Editor

The Sound Editor is responsible for assembling and editing all the sound effects in the soundtrack.

·       Re-recording Mixer

The Re-recording Mixer balances all of the sounds prepared by the dialogue, music and effects editors, and finalizes the films audio track.

·       Music Supervisor

The Music Supervisor, or Music Director, works with the Composer, Mixers and Editors to create and integrate the film's music. In Hollywood a Music Supervisor's primary responsibility is to act as liaison between the film production and the recording industry, negotiating the use rights for all source music used in a film.

·       Composer

The Composer is responsible for writing the musical score for a film.

·       Foley Artist

The Foley Artist is the person who creates the post-sync sound effects for a film. These sound effects are recorded in sync to picture and are mostly body movements, footsteps or object manipulations. The most common reason for recording these effects live to picture is the fact that such sounds are lost when the dialogue is removed to be replaced by a foreign language version. Unsatisfactorily recorded sync sound effects can also be replaced with Foley effects. Foley artists are also known as Foley walkers. Foley is named after it's first known practitioner, an early Hollywood sound editor named Jack Foley.

Foley artists
Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to a film-or in our case ads.
These reproduced sounds can be anything from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and breaking glass.
We may be recreating sound effects in the party scene for the ad that we're shooting and Leo and I as sound crew have to recreate these sounds.
Things that we might have to record, are sound effects like clinking glasses,

video critique 8

M.I.A Bad girls music video

Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yuqxl284cg

I liked this music video (youtube) because of the shots and colour control. It was a neat video, and the middle eastern music was really catchy.

I liked this establishing shot because it sets the scene clearly. It shows that it's somewhere in the desert, and it automatically makes me think of the middle east.

I liked the colour control in this, pale shades of yellow, creamy white, light cargo brown.

I liked the framing of this shot, a horizontal line right in the middle

neutral shades of great and brown.

I liked this shot because of the lighting in the car, it seemed out of place because they're set in the desert, and the lights in the car are kinda fluro- gives it a future feel to it.

video critique 7

Crazy hands
By Charlie Graley
Theme : growth
Live-action
Duration: 7min
Byline: A man wakes up to find his hands have taken on a life of their own
 Source:http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2011/07/04/crazy-hands/

This video has dark colours mostly shades of brown, yellow, black, and white, sort of like an old movie- probably to set the scene...

Mid-shot of man in olden day clothing... Neutral colours, nothing bright

outside the white house doesn't look white- Lighting?

I liked this shot because of the murky effect, smokey, dark, sharp, but still blurry.

I loved this wide-shot because there was a lot of negative space but it still worked, also following the compositional rule (thirds)

 

The low key lighting in this mid shot was nice with a deep depth of field as we are able to see everything in the shot

I thought this was a cool shot because everything is so darkly lit, but the piano keys are still quite prominent.  

video critique 6

Terry Tate Office Linebacker
By Rawson Marshall Thurber
Theme: Life and Society
Comedy
Live action

Source: http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2013/01/31/terry-tate-office-linebacker/
Byline: a retired nil linebacker is recruited by a corporate firm to maintain order in the office, from the -directer of dodgebball.
I thought this video was funny, it was weird to see a line backer, and is actually able to keep up in the office intellectually. It was cool to see him in his element, when he'd switch of the NFL alter-ego, smiling.

I thought this shot was cool with everything in neutral tones of blue green except the coffee jug, completely red.

The lighting sets the scene in the officer really well with its blue tones, and then here again the red stands out.

I liked this shot because with the low key lighting, the lamps in the background gives the homey feeling to an everyday office.

I like this shot because again the low key lighting is effective, and the reds stand out alot

lighting exercise

Me, Sam. and Rimal experimenting with light.

video critique 5

Bruce Lee Played Badminton too
By Corrie Chen, Anna Kojevnikov
Duration: 14min
Australia
2014
Byline:As a chaser to all the dark and heavy stuff we tend to feature on Short of the Week, I present to you Corrie Chen’s Bruce Lee Played Badminton Too—a charming, comedic fairy tale about a chubby kid with athletic dreams and a penchant for ill-fitting tennis wear. Unlike so many films of a similar ilk—where humor only appears in the darkest shades of black—Bruce Lee’s offbeat and light comedic stylings feel practically subversive. 

Source: http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/01/07/bruce-lee-played-badminton-too/

I liked this video because it was a fun little comedy.

I liked this shot because of the low key lighting with the spotlight on him. I though it showed him "being in the zone" quite well.

I liked this shot because with the low lighting, in his get up, he was still visible.

this shot has contrasting colours, yellow and blue, and his t-shirt is slightly tainted yellow, giving the tungsten light effect that is akin to a normal sitting in your own dining room

I actually like this shot just because there was hollywood styled lighting to me, in a way that if i were to try and recreate the shot, i would've probably over exposed it- theres a lot of white, and it could've been off but it wasn't. The posters in the background shows his thoughts towards badminton- akin to a tween liking Justin Beiber.

First cut up video

I had no idea what video to cut so i just went with the constellation video...

Colour controlled video

I chose to go with shades of blue, because that was the colour of Kim's top, the curtain, the chair, and hints as well as dark purple outside the window.

white balance scale (Kelvin)

In class we learned about certain lights to use when shooting.

We learned about gels, to make conflicting light sources even in a shot.

Colour balance makes everything neutral....

Audio Mixing- Moving image

Today in class we learned about audio mixing, and sound bridging between cuts. We learned how to mark in key frames and use them to increase volume in certain areas in order to create a natural sounding flow. With the key frames, we were able to see how loud in decibels the cuts and audio tracks were, and that helped us to create a good feel to the whole interview.

Interview with Anita Asi

Trying to sync the recording with the clips that were cut took a while, but I finished it.

I put in cross dissolve effects in at the last minute.

woo…

I decided to leave the swearing. It's raw and casual, who are we trying to kid?

It's us, so I left it uncut, the way I wanted it to be.

Just 2 friends kicking it.

Video analysing 4

The Record breaker.
By Brian Mc Ginn
Theme: perseverance
Live action/ documentary

Source http://www.shortoftheweek.com/?s=ashrita

Byline: Ashrita Furman holds the official record for the most Guinness world Records by one individual. This is his story

Structure: Structured as an interview with cuts to old videos, random takes of him and his record breaking videos.

I like this video because it reminds me of the time I spent in the library reading the Guinness book of records and seeing him pop up over and over again, he became memorable. It was cool seeing what he was like. he's funny which I'd probably should of got from his random records.

Mid- shot of record breaker, breaking the walking backwards record.

Opening wide shot of Ashrita breaking the biggest hula hooper record.

Wide shot of Ashrita breaking another record (self explanatory photo)

video analysing 3

Pockets
By DANIELS
Special FX

Source http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2012/10/12/pockets/

Byline: A homeless man bored of eating the same food every night, promises his girlfriend a special dinner, so decides to rob a stranger who turns out to have special pockets.

Theme: Crime

Structure: A series of events. 3min video…

I thought this was a funny but cool video, but I mean the possibilities with that jacket though… I also thought it was kinda creepy, because when the rob-ee started fighting back the sadistic look that crossed his features was just evil.

Editing techniques:
Using special effects Daniels made an awesome and creative film…
The lighting is quite green and it contrasts against everything that is red in the shots.
Mostly mid shots.

Mid-shot of the robber slamming a stranger walking past.

In a strange turn of events, in a mid shot, the robber slips a hand into the mans pocket then realises that said hand is coming out of his own pocket. So the man that he's robbing really, has one of the coolest jackets I have ever seen.

Shown in a mid-shot, The man that was being robbed has become the antagonist of the film. He open s up his jacket to reveal that he has a lot of pockets. He then uses those pockets to get close to the robber enough to punch him which turns into the weirdest fist fight ever.

In a close-up, shown after the man that was being robbed ate hot "pockets" This shot becomes the climax of the film, in a last ditch effort to save his girlfriend, he shoves his fist into the other half of the hot pocket. 

Shown in a mid-shot, his fist comes out on the inside of the mans stomach killing him.

A mid-shot of the robber burning the jacket which starts a chain reaction burning everything else that the pockets in the jackets lead to.

Mid shot of the guy burning from his pocket.

video analysing 2

Brady
By John Heeg and Chris Westlund.
Live action

Source http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/08/11/brady/

Byline: A wheelchair bound boy watches as his mother falls in love with the high school volunteer at the pool where he does aquatic therapy.

Theme: Illness

Genre: Drama

Structure: Shown in the life of a boy and the development of a relationship in that time…

I chose this video because of how light it is though the ideas are sad but still not rated. Seeing the story from his perspective, we're still able to understand what's happening more than he does, but he does pick up on his mothers unhappiness, and I get the feeling that he does blame himself but doesn't think much of it because he is still a young boy. I think this video is sad because it shows how his mother really likes the instructor, but his obvious rejection cuts deep and it shows that. What I like about this film is it could've been over dramatic with longer scenes, but it wasn't.

Camera techniques.

There isn't a lot of dialogue. theres a lot of music where there are closeups of the little boy showing that he is watching the interactions between his mother and the man. I think It shows how perceptive he is, and slightly how mature he is.When I think of a boy  his age, I expect to see him happy and playing around. He's really quiet, and I know it's him being wheelchair bound that keeps him quiet.
At touching scenes, the music is free, serene, but still light at the same time.

Close-up/mid-shot of the mother checking out the volunteer swimming instructor, setting the base of the buildup for when she asks him out.

Close-up/mid-shot of the little boy watching the interaction between his mother and the man- close enough to see his contemplative expression.

Close-up of the mother crying in the car after getting rejected, her back to the son, though he is able to see the expression of her face in the rear-view mirror.

Close-up of the mother showing her expression- she's trying to smile for her son though she's going through a heartbreak.

Video analysing

Writers block
By Tom Gran and Martin Woolley (Spin kick Bros)
Flash animation

Source : http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/04/17/writers-block/

Byline : A prison for criminally poor writers, a gang of cons get ahold of a script for their own lives, trying to write a way of escape  on a type writer.

Theme: Crime…

Structure: A series of events. A man would type, not long later the event he typed would happen.


Editing techniques: there were a few close ups getting the really gruesome visuals of the inmates. There was a lot of text sticking to the script writing in the storyline. When It didn't show the words being typed in close ups, it had dialogue that was in sync with what was happening.

It would show close ups of what was typed like a play script and in the picture below, in a wide shot, it shows whats happening as well as capturing the inmates watching and realising what they've discovered- a script of their lives.

In the picture below, its a close up of a writer trying to type their escape.

In the picture bellow is shows text, which only last for barely a second and the letters are moving so it's hard to see, but it reads " exit prison yard"

This to me gives a comic book feeling to it, like all of a sudden it's become an action comic, with the bold red colours, with words over lapping.

Then like a switch being flipped as you read the last line in the picture above, a close up shows whats happening in the picture below, which is shown in a close up of the inmates. 

Theres a chase between the writer and the inmates and the writer uses the type writer to create traps to slow the inmates down. Theres over lapping words in shorts, in the one below the words are reversed but readable, and what looks like under the words, is the inmates realising that they're being shot at.

 

In the end the writer gets away, and theres a mid shot of him just outside of the prison gates in a clean pressed suit, making him look like the winner in this whole scenario, emphasised by a close up of the last remaining inmate as the doors just in his face and he realises he won't ever escape.

  

Close up of the script with the Film makers names crossed out and the type writers name is replaced.