Helpful videos

both alex and i found these videos very helpful when trying to recreate the sounds of a prison riot/fight

Narrative

The narrative for our piece is as follows

- a prison warden collects an inmate from his cell.

- he is then taken to the cafeteria.

- this is where the inmate is antagonised by another prison.

- a fight then ensues causing other prisoners to riot

- the prison alarms are set and the guards have to use full force, including gunfire, to stop the riot.

Location Change

Due to constant neglect from the school we had asked to use for our recording, and the fact that they only got back in touch a few days before we had planned to record, we had changed the location of our project. We decided to record around university as this provided similar sounds.

Mindmap for sense of space audio project

Just a few ideas that Alex and I came up with in preparation for our project.

Sense of space audio project

when recieving the brief for this project, i came up with the idea to record in my former primary school, Hucklow Primary, and then convert the recordings in soundcut pro to sound like a prison. this would have involved sounds such as the school cafateria, the school yard and individual sounds such as bells, bars etc.

Screen Grabs

Screen grabs from the editing stage, including examples of split screens and cropping with the configuration settings showing, and a screen grab of the fade in transition at the start of the clip.

Scheduling for Edale location shoot

Project briefing- Wednesday 19th October

Discussion of Ideas- Wednesday 19th/Thursday 20th October (further discussions)

Practice shoot (taking out camera, experimenting with focus)- Monday 24th October

Day of shoot- Thursday 27th October

Capture footage, watch and organise, start preparations for edit of rough cut- Wednesday 2nd November

Continue Editing Rough Cut- Thursday 3rd November

Tutorial Feedback- Friday 4th November

Edit for Final Cut- Wednesday 9th November

Finishing touches and burning of file onto disc- Thursday 10th November

Presentation- Friday 11th November

Editing of edale location

After getting a very poor response of our rough cut of the project, we decided to start fresh. Though we did agree with the comments made, we felt that this inspired to go in and edit non stop until we got something we liked, and after several hours of editing today, we are nearly there. We have intorduced split screens and crops into our editing which we are very excited about, except for all the constant rendering. Tomorrow we go into put the final touches on the video, then it's ready to be burnt onto discs. Exciting times!

storyboard for edale shoot

AS our piece is an experimental film piece we could not storyboard our ideas for the location shoot, as we had only seen the location through images on the internet. we did think of introducing a narrative into our piece, so we came up with a brief storyboard, with camera shots, movements and some brief descriptions. please excuse the drawings.

Edale location shots

Although we had not taken these shots ourselves we found that by checking the location out on the internet helped us get a better understanding of the area and the capabilities to which we could shoot, these are just a few recce shots.

ideas for the Edale shoot

For our shoot we tried to make what we filmed as experimental as we could, to achieve this we shot certain things in and out of focus, drawing the audiences attention on to certain aspects of the location. Here are some images that inspired us to do this.

Killian Martin: a skate regeneration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mgFdn4lfrE
This is part of three short films featuring freestyle skate boarder Killian Martin directed by Brett Novak. I love theses shorts, this feature in particular as I feel Novak's take on skate videos is unique and individual to his style of film making. His mix of slow motion shots and the lighting and composition of each frame make the video truly beautiful and i find them quite breathtaking to watch. I also feel that the choice of locations used in this video suggest skateboarding to be an art form