Monday, 18 January 2010

Soundtrack; Followed On.

  • On Monday 18th January (Today's lesson), me, Raza and Suhail continued working towards our trailer. Raza was focusing on the Editing aspects such as sorting out the duration of the shots and splitting them so overall it'll look original. Suhail was helping him and getting a "feel" for how editing works out. I wasn't focusing on the editing as much as I was on the soundtrack as I don't have much experience or much knowledge of how to edit the individual shots, but I did help out in terms of assistance, as I provided the captions layout, which sets out the order of our shots in the trailer, I printed it off my blog as the yellow book was currently unavailable. We have now learnt not to rely too heavily on the yellow book, as it isn't always available so luckily I found another source of blogger to print off our scheduele and other information.
  • Having the role of sound, I must entail my role through research and investigation. In today's lesson, I simply converted all of our soundtracks off youtube to mps using http://www.mediaconverter.org/ which is a great site for converting youtube url's to any other format, in this case, mp3. Fortunately, I converted all of our video's so we have a diverse collection of tunes to choose from whilst editing after college on Wednesdays, as we agreed. Having done so, I also set out to research various other soundtrack's and trailers in order to understand their layout and how it's structured, i.e. whether it's in chronological order, the sound effects used within it's narrative, etc. The trailer for Avatar was interesting as the score and soundtrack for the film is very much related to it's fantasty genre.
  • Also, we decided to stay after college, this Wednesday as we' all a Wednesday 20th Jan Raza and Suhail have decided to shoot the toilet scene again which although will last 10 minutes, it's still necessary as the shots had a scene where a bag was once played on top of the drier and in the next shot, it had disappeared, which not only looked inconsistent but also illogical. Thus, while the boys will film in the toilets at 3pm, I will come in at 4, after my lesson, and focus on the script as we need Raza to speak a few lines to establish his role more further and more realistically.

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