Soundtrack Sheets- Editing (Upload jingle)

I crated a little jingle that i would feel could be in a film that has a bar scene as i was unsure of what to do. I used sound track pro to create the little jingle you will hear. I used 5 different instruments. I used piano, saxophone, drum kits, Shakers and A female breath in-between the saxophone playing to create a real feeling to the music as if it was recorded live. 

Jingle for film link HERE!!!!

Sound track sheet- Devising and planning finish

1) 
- To create this sound track i plan on working with two people, Aidan Bell and Kirk Duncan. They will help me to figure out the sounds and instruments i would like to use for the soundtrack they will also play the instruments as i have no skills in playing. They will have no influence over the final sound as i will make sure it is my own choice of style and sound. They will help to edit the work together to make the best sound track possible. 

-The only other person involved for the sound track would be me. If this was a major film there would be many other people involved for example the director the producer and the editor they would have a huge influence in the music choice and the sounds created for the film. 

What is Spotting? 

The spotting session is when a director and composer get together to watch the film and decide where the music is going to be and what it’s going to do. This occurs before the composer starts writing the music.

What is a Locked Picture? 

Picture locking is the stage in a editing a film when all changes to the film have been done and approved. It is then sent on too other stages such as audio mixing. It allows the composer to have a final picture to create his sound track too as discussed in the spotting session. 

2) 
Birds singing, On site sound recording. Using a shot gun mic directed in the area of bird song. 

Rubble being kicked, Foley, Using a bucket of stones and kicking in the box? 

Thrown Knife, Foley, Using a kitchen utensil for the sound of the metal and a air tube to create the sound  of it moving through the air. 

Music- Violins,Piano,Drums,Orchestral, Sound proofed area and recording studio. Pre composed with the correct techniques to create the atmospheric sounds needed. 

3)
Location report
Open Field (Camp Site)
This site had no acoustics there is also a risk of noise from airplanes and wind.
For this filming i would use a shotgun mic and potentially a hidden clip mic to pic up the actors well. I would also use a wind guard to decreases the chance of overpowering wind noise. 

Campsite hall. 
This location once again has no acoustics, there is a risk of echoing because of the type of space, I will pad the walls to reduce the amount of echo to create a cleaner sound of the actors talking and use a shotgun mic without the wind guard to make sure the best sound is picked up. 

Software. 
I have many softwares available to me.
Garage band 
Soundtrack pro
Final cut pro 

To me they all have a similar set up, you can create and edit your own soundtrack you input. 
i would prefer to use soundtrack pro as it is the one i feel most comfortable with and has more soundscapes and foley that i could use in the film. 

Explain
MP3
This is an encoding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage. 
Pro's 
Thif file format is good for for small portable files
Con's
Reputation for poor sound quality.

AIFF
(Audio inerchange file format) this is an audio file format used for personal computers and storing sound data. the format was developed by apple inc. 
Pro's 
Don't have to compress files.
Con's
Takes A lot of storage space

WAVE
A format for storing uncompressed audio files.
Pro's 
They are linear files meaning they can contain the amount of data that is directly relates to the length of the recording.
Con's 
Must have a lot of storage space.

4) 
Public domain materials. 
Public domain materials are work that has either had all right expired, The author have explicitly put a work into the public domain, or there where never and copyrights. 

In USA no sound recording will enter the public domain until 2067 unless places there by the creators. 

Downloading from the internet
Downloading from the internet can be a very risk task, but if it is in the public domain then its a free for all unless bought from another person and then copyrighted as their own. When it is in the free domain then you have to at least credit the artist, although a few artists on the public domain ask for small donations to use their materials as well as being credited. Ripping from youtube is illegal and against most company policies including YouTube's, even if it your own material you are ripping from the site, it is still a serious offence and can ban you from YouTube.

Licensed music. 
Music licensing is the licensed use of copyrighted music. Music licensing is intended to ensure that the owners of copyrights on musical works are compensated for certain uses of their work. A purchaser has limited rights to use and reproduce the recorded work without a separately arranged agreement.

Sound track sheets- Developing your own soundtrack.

Developing your own soundtracks

1) Uncomfortable, Creepy, Hopeful, disturbing. 

2) The sound track for my film will help explain my story by creating tension when it can't be shown only through words. It will build up a sense of uneasiness in the audience as the watch the film. It will help to convey the emotions and the sense of feeling i want to portray to the audience, It should show the audience how they should be feeling while keeping a constant theme throughout the film. 

3) 

Uncomfortable feeling. 

Live sound

 I will create this feeling because of the very little sound in the surrounding area that i am filming in. The only sound you will be able to hear is the sound of the birds and the uncomfortable silence. 

Adr/Foley/SFX

I won't be using any of these elements to create this feeling as i feel that the silence and the atmosphere of the place of filming will create that its self. 

Music

The music made for the film will have a very uncomfortable undertone. Which will help create the atmosphere throughout  the film until the end. 

Ambience/ soundscapes. 

The ambience and soundscapes for the film all have come from the live recording because of the sounds while filming that where created. 

Creepy feeling

Live sound

The live sound isn't very creepy, its a very fresh sound because of the outdoor environment. 

ADR/Foley/SFX

I haven't added any of these elements again because i plan on obtaining this feeling from the music. 

Music

I have created this sound with the use of an uncomfortable clang, This creates a creepy and uncomfortable feeling in the viewer. I will also place an underlying noise that sounds creepy with the tone of the instruments. 

Ambience/Sound scapes

I haven't added in any sound scales and the ambience is created through the use of the music throughout the film . 

Hopeful

Live Sound

The live sound from the film will also be very hopeful wight he sound of bird song meaning life and resolve hearing this throughout the film should create a hopeful feeling in the viewer, hoping there is some resolve throughout the ending of the film. 

ADR/Foley/SFX
I will add in some bird song if none is attained on the day of film, I believe this will help create a hopeful atmosphere 

Music

The music for the final stages of film will increase in hopefulness it will try and resolve the issues posed to the characters in the film, It will have an upbeat tune and will increase as time goes on. 

Ambience/Soundscapes

The soundscape for this section will solely realie on the bird song. The ambience will be created with the use of music in the final stages of the film. 

Disturbing

Live sound

The silence made from the live recording should make a disturbing moment, i would like to create this with the use of silence and no sound track

ADR/FOLEY/SFX

I may add in some white noise to help create this feeling of dead silence and to give it an undertone so the noise feels uncomfortable and worrying 

Music

The music to create this will use a lot of violins and piano, I feel these 2 instruments will help create the mood and add too the emotions the viewers will feel when watching these sections of the film. 

Ambience and Soundscapes

The ambience will be created using silence and the only soundscape i plan on adding could be white noise. 

Try Try Again....Single camera pre production

Through out our pre-production for the single camera production. We came across many problems and we ended up in someway or another creating three films.

Our first film was based on horror/crime I wrote the script for this and then we discovered we did not have the finances for this.

Our second film was a romance and once again I wrote the script for this: See below.
FAde In:

[Scene Name]
                    Voice (male): normally in a love story you have the person you meet and fall in love with and then you have the happiness, a small obstacle for them to overcome and they live happily ever after. This time it's not the same. This time...well I'm not too sure. Sometimes you don't realize what you have until it's gone. Until it has completely disappeared and there is nothing left. This is my romance story, because after this story nothing else matters.

(As this voice over is going on watch two people walk down the high street on split screen one a man in a suit listening to his music, another a woman talking on the phone paying no attention to the world walking into people, the man smiling and bobbing along to his music the woman annoyed and rude)

Voice (male): That's me. Yeah the one in a suit, I had just left an interview and as far as I was concerned the world couldn't get any better. I was sure I had nailed it and got the job seeing as how hard it is to come by a decent job these days or a job at all for that matter.

(Watch as walks into a coffee shop orders coffee and walks upstairs)

VOICE (male): So I thought what a better way to celebrate then a good decent coffee and me time, seeing as my house mate was a complete jerk, it's nice to get away from his friends and the Xbox.

(As he sits down another voice over begins)

VOICE (female): I am a woman in a man’s world, the job I have is far too important for anyone. It took me years to get this job and all the work I did for it paid off, that meant I wasn't going to be taken for a mug. People saw me as rude and spiteful...I wasn't I had just learnt a way to deal with people turns out. That can turn out to leave you heart broken and alone.

(Watch a women's feet as she walks)

VOICE (female): Yeah, that's me the bitch over there talking way too loudly on her phone and not caring about anyone or anything. Well that's how I used to be.

(The woman walks into the same coffee shop orders a drink and continues to talk on her phone she walks up the stairs and drops her scarf, the man sitting there picks it up and she goes to pick it up as well, as this happens she drops her coffee,the man pulls out his head phones)

Man: AH, shit I'm sorry

Woman: Its fine really

Man: No no it's not, let me go buy you another one looks like you were enjoying that.

Woman: well I hadn't even got to it.

(Man half smiles runs down stairs as the woman walks over to separate seat cursing quietly putting her scarf in her bag, and hanging up the phone, the man walks up the steps looks to where he was sitting and looks around to see her there, he picks up his things and sits opposite her)

Man: Here (Places coffee on the table) Once again I'm really sorry. That's the problem with long legs.

(She looks up he half smiles and breaks her and she smiles and giggles back)

Woman: Well...thanks, floor coffee isn't really a desired flavor. I’m Stephanie.

(She looks in her bag and pulls out a book lays it on the table and the man looks surprised and smiles)

Man: Alex, nice to meet you. So a book fan...any good?

stephanie: define good.

(He smiles and so does she. He looks into his bag and pulls out the same book.)

alex: This is how I define good

The woman looks at him and smiles, she sips her coffee and they begin to talk about the book

stephanie:I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it, you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting that yours will ever be. 

Move into a short montage of them talking as cups build up on the table and they talk for hours. cut quickly away from the music to the life of the coffee shop.

alex: I’ll be right back bear with.

Stephanie begins to pack her stuff up the camera moves to her hands and she writes her number on a napkin fold it and place it into the book. she gets up and leaves.alex returns to see her gone disapointment in his face he picks up the book about to leave as the napkin drops on his lap he looks at it and smiles, stands and leaves.
cut to a black screen with the phone ringing sound

Stephanie: hello?

Alex: Uhm..hi

Stephanie: Who is this?

Alex:Its alex, from the coffee shop. I guess I should have started with that.

Stephanie: So?

Alex: er..yeah

Stephanie: cinema 7oclock..(Hangs up dead tone)

montage of happy thing’s

Alex walks along the street its late he walks to a house and through the window you see stephanie with a mystery man,He turns on his heel very quickly in anger,you can clearly see it in his expression. he storms through his front door and sits on a couch a shot of his phone with stephanies number he click the call button screan goes blank.

Ringing noise

Stephanie: Hello?

Alex: Who is he?

Stephanie: What are you talking about?

Alex: Don’t lie to me Stephanie…

Stephanie: (Pause) what where you doing at my house anyway…We weren’t meant to see each other.

Alex: Have you never heard of romance. I was trying to surprise you. Would appear you were otherwise occupied.

Stephanie: You know you’re an idiot, before you make assumptions ask… seeing as I have to explain myself to you he is my sister’s fiancé…You know Katie.

Alex: But…

Stephanie: He came to ask advice on how to surprise her with something. Look I love you. And no one else.

Alex: Oh, I love you too. I’m sorry.

Stephanie: Good night Alex.

Hangs up. dead tone.

small scene in the house.

Greg: Babe who was that? Everything okay?

Stephanie: Oh, yeah that’s Katie’s fiancé, nothing to worry about.

she kisses him and the camera moves down as
Cut back to the coffee shop different day, Greg walks in alex sees him, takes a deep breath and walks over too him.

Alex: Hello

Greg: Uhm…hello

Alex: I’m friends with Stephanie.

Greg: Oh yeah.You were on the phone yesterday. I know it’s none of my business. But is everything okay? Stephanie sounded very aggravated.

Alex: If I’m honest no. The girl I’m in love with is slowly pulling away. I want to be with her all day every day. She is the only one I can dream of being with.

Greg: Why are you sitting here then, If she is the girl you’re in love why are you sitting here like a sap. Go get her. Don’t lose her.

Later that night alex walks down the street with flowers behind his back. he knocks on the door and waits. the door begins to open and greg is standing there. awkward moment as alex drops the flowers.

Stephanie: Babe who’s at the door?

long drawn out shot of silence, stephanie walks around the corner too see them both standing at the door.stephanie standing in gregs shirt from the coffee shop. greg grabs alex by the collar and pushes him against the wall.

alex: What the fuck is going on here.

Greg: What are you doing here? AT MY FIANCES HOUSE!

Alex: Wait what! Your fiancé? THAT’S MY GIRLFRIEND.

THEY BOTH TURN AND LOOK AT STEPH AS SHE SMILES SHEEPISHLY.

Greg: Steph? Steph! You lied to me. I have given you everything. I have never denied you. And now..

Greg grabs his coat and walks away pushing past alex, alex says nothing as stephanie looks as though she is going to say something. he shakes his head and he turns and walks away in silence.camera moves back slowly and she is left standing alone in the door.

back at the coffee shop time has passed alex is sitting in the same spot they met stephanie walks through the door she looks as if she is going to walk over to him and he puts his head phones in picks up his book and ignores her.

VOICE (female): It’s funny how you start as strangers. You develop emotions and end as strangers. I learnt that day that what I had done had turned a good man into the man he would never have been. I have ruined a good man. And he will corrupt another woman. Sometimes they are right when they say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. The world ruins one person who destroys another a before you know it its war. I am no longer that woman.

We then filmed which took us one day in total we had prepared a day plan prop plan and the noises we would need

Then it came to editing and we discovered this film had many faults in the editing process the story was not comprehendible, the sound wasn't the best and the acting was awful. And none of us where proud of the work. With only one week to go we decided to create a third film. We went out and in one night with no script and no real plan shot a film. And once again we encountered problems.

Due to short notice of the filming we couldn't get hold of a microphone meaning the words spoken by the actors couldn't be heard we then decided to dub the entire film. which took us about three hours in total. We finally edited the final film with the A.D.R we then decided on instrumentals for the background music in particular RnB music we used music made by other artist's as we felt we didn't have time to create music of our own. We felt that we should create some white noise so we added that in our selves. We made sure the gradient of the music was at the right levels so you could hear the A.D.R sound and that it created the correct feeling of the film we where looking for.

However I don't feel this is my best work and that everything has been against us in this project however we have all tried our best during this time. And have all worked together through out all the things that have gone with this project.

The Final Film

This is our final film this was a very hard process for us, its called third time lucky because this is the third film we attempted to make. We came across many problems while making our film. We had many sound issues and because we didn't have as much time for this film as the others potentially had. Meaning the sound is not as well done. When we reviewed the footage for this piece we realised the sound was very bad and had to recreate the voices with out one of the original actors in the film.

We had a lot of problems creating our single camera production and if i could do it again there is a lot i would do differently. I do not believe this is my best work and that it reflects my sound work either. 

Here is the link for our film 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRAdctQYQhg&feature=youtu.be

48 hour challenge

We where given 48 hours to make a short film between 5-10 mins. Not only this but we where told the genre it had to be and we had to include one line we where given.

Sounds hard right?

It was.

The genre we where given was Drama.

And the live we where given was "Hey matthew when your watching tv what do you see?"

Our short film is about a man who has multiple personality disorder. But the person inside his head is a woman. And she makes everyday life a struggle for him nothing is easy.
And then it all gets to much when she faces him for the last time.

So here is the video please enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eouOcLsegAQ

Blocking

For the first shoot we kept the blocking to a basic minimum and for the second shoot we used character movement and action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RqH8r66bkw0

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkbeFnaIUIc&feature=player_embedded

 

What were you testing?

We were testing to see how much of an improvement blocking made to a scene.

What are you trying to achieve?

By doing so we hoped that it would give us a better insight into how the final scene would look if we used blocking.

Plan the scene 

We thought of a scene and had a rough idea of the script. The idea revolves around two men accusing another man of stealing money. That was the basic plot of the script but other than that it was all improvised.

Shoot

We shot each scene twice through and I uploaded the best version of each one. Although this was a practice for a single camera drama shoot, we used two cameras to see which angle looked best.

Evaluating 

I feel as though blocking makes a huge difference to the scene as an overall and adds a lot of emotion to the scene. 

Single camera drama outline

I will be working with Alice, Michael and Aiden.

Our first plan for the single single camera drama was about a girl who is struggling with life and her friend manages to convince her to try drugs to take away some of the stress of life. She ends up overdosing and dying and her father goes on a revenge hunt to try and avenge his daughters life.

We then decided after much thought that we don't have a big enough budget (or one at all) for this production so we have begun a new idea this Is called utopia love this is of a couple who fall in love in a coffee shop. They have there ups and downs only to come to an end when it is discovered that the main female character has been engaged all along. A love triangle with a meaning.

We shot the film to then discover that it was not up to our standards. With not much time left we decided to shoot a new film about a homeless boy and a very rich woman who once again meet over a mutual love but because of the difference in lifestyle the woman calls it of.

After many problems this final story seems to have worked out.

Sound Pre-Production

Sound: Pre-Production (Pass Level)

Audio techniques too be used:

• Foley
• Digetic and Non-Digetic sound

List of required sound recordings:

• Coffee shop sound
• Conversations 
• Background music
• Montage Music x 2
• 
  

Equipment: 

• Rode Video Mic (Aka boom mic)
• Rode 3m VC1 Minijack 3.5mm stereo Extension cable
• Wind Shield

Sound Editing(Things I need to know): 

• Mixing voices: -6;-12
• Music lower
• Using garage band, Sound track Pro 
• Mixing and effects

(REMEMBER SCREEN GRABS)