After receiving picture lock I began on levelling the dialogue making it either quieter because it was recorded to loud or louder because it was so quiet. When that was complete I then began to start working on foley SFX in the studio either with aid of the location sound recordist Matt Capiteux, another student Natasha Sharma but most times by myself by setting the record to loop and going into the foley room by myself.
For this guest lecture we had Barney Oram come in, he is a Junior sound designer for video games. he explained to us that he specialises in creating ambience / environment sounds/atmosphere , and weapon sounds. he also goes explain how doing what he does not a short process. I found this useful because gave me more of an idea of what expect with repetitiveness when I will be doing foley it also gave some ideas on how to do environmental noise for specific scenes in my short film.
During this Lecture Lee Gretton spoke to us about the production process based on his own client based project. while giving a four step process which began with having an idea, step two was research, step three was production and the fourth step was delivery. I took more interest and was more focused on the second and final step for my clients based project for research because it mentioned looking into other sources of music similar to what Lee had to do which gave me the idea to look at other TV shows and motion pictures of a similar nature I tended to focus on products with female protagnoists as they where similar to the short film I was working on. The forth step delivery was also a focus due to it being a client when the majority was of sound project was complete I got the director and producer to come in and have a listen and there was a lot back and forth with what they were happy with and what they wanted to add so learning that in this lecture help no what to expect.
During Grant Bridgeman’s lecture he discussed his experiences prior and during working in the industry, focusing on how he started out, his on set skills not sound directly and information about freelancing and finding work. He also spoke about technicals skills, formats and work flows and how every working situation can be different. Then focused on film skills gave out information on understanding the process and the clients. He also mentioned accounting, and networking, and that how you communicate is key. I found this lecture interesting and gave me a lot information that relate to my first learning outcome of the use professional practice to communicate with clientele.
A movie score is often used to create a emotion link between the audience and the movie itself. Score is often used in motion pictures to guide an audiences emotions due how evoking music can be, a scene can be ruined without the right feeling music being played for it. An example of this would in the scene ‘A journey in the dark’ from the film Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring the Moria theme begins to play which unnerves the audience, the scene itself is unnerving as most human beings have an natural fear of the dark but with how it is being portrayed on screen adding the Moria theme creates a more nervous atmosphere for the audience. The Moria theme was constructed from Polynesian, and Maori choirs after recording Howard Shore augmented what been recorded by layering rugby players voices with the choir to make more intimidating. Due to it being in a mine Peter Jackson wanted the score to sound quite masculine and similar to a welsh mining choir. In contrast to this the scene known as the Shire in the same film the score known as bag end sets up a warm atmosphere for the audience.
This research will help me achieve my second learning outcome.