Blog Assignment # 10

      This week Jonathan and I edited our soundscape for project 3B. It was interesting to see that certain sounds sounded like a lot of other things. We still have about ten more seconds to add to the soundscape. So far I really like where we’ve gone with it. Our line was “thickly keeping the light out” so we wanted to make the tone more dark and ominous. We talked today about exactly what it meant to take this project from a conceptual angle, rather than a narrative angle. The idea we were going with when we first started was a guy trapped inside a house or warehouse and the sounds were everything he was hearing around him. We decided to begin with the sound of a door opening, and today we talked about ending with the sound of a door slamming. I can’t wait to wrap everything up today and hear the final product!

-KP

Blog Assignment #9

Creating the sounds for this project was a lot of fun. I worked with Mike, Kayla, Sarah, and Jason. We wanted to make a really unique library of sounds that would stand out among everyone else’s. At first we met at the library and tossed some ideas around. After a few minutes we decided that we should just get started and the ideas would come to us. We learned that you have to make sure you don’t have any wind or air conditioning units anywhere that you record. Also we learned that some sounds that you record sound like something completely different. We wanted to get really creative with the sounds so we went to Sarah’s job, which is a gymnasium. There we recorded people on trampolines and also walking on beams. We were trying to find sounds that could be used as a lot of different things. I’m looking forward to working on 3B. 

Blog Assignment #8- Master Shot

We haven't edited our project yet- we are meeting at Kenan tonight at eight to create our rough cut for tomorrow's class. So I don't have much to say about editing as of now, but I can post about shooting the Master Shot Project. We met on Saturday to scout the location and go to Halloween Express. Early Sunday morning we began production and wrapped somewhere around two or three. I had a lot of fun that day, and felt like I learned a lot. I thought our group did a good job staying positive when we encountered unforeseen problems. Working with lighting is brand new to me, and the lights proved to be critical to the film set. We we’re working in a dark room with fabric over the windows. We wanted a dark and ominous look, but not dark enough to the point where you couldn’t see the character’s faces. With only one power chord in the light kit, we had to get creative. In the end, I thought everything worked out fantastic. I loved the look of our shots and had a great time on the day of production.  

Blog Assignment #7

The Master Shot project is the first experience I have ever had with using previsualization materials. Now that I have used them once, I can’t see myself going to make any other film without creating storyboards, overheads and a shot list. They are extremely helpful with planning your movie and making your production process go a lot smoother. I am responsible for lighting so I created the overheads. The first set was a very rough draft, because I had not yet seen the storyboards or the shot list. After meeting with my group and checking out the previz materials they made I have created a new set of overheads. These are much more precise and congruent with our shots and scene. The most difficult part of preplanning was drawing the overheads without seeing the storyboards. Now that my group has all of our materials ready I am eager and excited to start production and get some hands-on experience with lighting.

Blog Assinment #6 Narrative Master Shot Sequence Previz

For the Narrative Master Shot Sequence I am in charge of lighting and also the Assistant Lead Director. Being a Gaffer, or Grip should be a lot of fun and I’m really looking forward to the experience. Our group met on Sunday and we discussed our ideas for where we could take this conversation. The setting we came up with is a secret society initiation ceremony, where two actors are tied to chairs, back to back. We are going for a creepy, ominous tone with a touch of dark humor. I wanted to use red and purple gels to help create the mood of the scene. I still haven’t seen the storyboards so I’m not sure exactly how its going to play out but I created a couple ROUGH overheads:

Blog #5 Reflection of vox pops and interview

Last Friday we shot our expert interview with one of the officers of Flicker. We ended up doing it in her office instead of the theater because we were unable to get permission to shoot in any of the theaters on campus. The office was fine though, it made for a nice shot with everything on and around her desk. The space was cramped with five of us in the tiny room, one huge boom mic, a tripod and a camera. I was so excited to finally be working on a real production and part of an actual crew! The vox pops were really fun to make too, it was thrilling talking to random people on campus. I have always been really curious about working with sound so I had a lot of fun with this project.

Interview Storyboard!

We plan to shoot our expert interview on Friday, February 8th. I think that Dallis is still working on getting an exact time for the meeting with the officers of Flicker. We want to interview them in a theater setting. Either in King, Kenan Auditorium, or Morton. Here's the storyboard: