Day: February 25, 2019

Pre-Production & Funding

“It smells like broke in here.”

Taylor Moore

Recording sound might be a tad difficult for us, but hiding some of the mics we want to use shouldn’t be too hard.

The main way we are going to record sound is through our headphones, specifically through Apple AirPods. Without the wires of regular headphones, it can easily hide behind someone’s hair and be useful to record sound. We would also use the “Voice Recorder” utility that comes with the iPhone itself. This would most likely happen on my phone since I would be the one editing the majority of the title sequence. It would most likely hide behind the hair of our actors and actresses, or in the fold of some of their clothes as seen on other actors/actresses. While this technique is used mostly for wire microphones, wireless headphones in this way could work as well.

We will only use ambient sound for the part which our detectives trying to figure out the case. The sounds will mostly include typical office sounds like keyboards, phones ringing, doors opening and closing, footsteps, etc. Having these sounds and the few people in the back will create more mundane realism within the clip and draw the people into the movie more rather than show that this is just a movie. We want to establish more cinematic invisibility than anything. The office sounds should sound something along the lines of the video I have linked here. We will record sound from the office we record in and try to soften the ambient noise we pick up on any microphones.

With these sound recording devices, it should end up having pretty good sound, and if I can mix it correctly then everything will turn out alright. Plus, they look fancy and modern.

Reflections

Reflection- Week 4

Taylor Moore

I’m going to cry my eyes out, but its fine I’m fine everything’s fine.

Struggles, so many struggles…

Tommy bein Tommy

Shooting was awful, but it wasn’t all our fault, but still it was so bad. We were given half an hour to shoot a 30 second scene, which doesn’t leave nearly enough time to actually do it, but we did our best. It was just… awful. We didn’t know our location well enough, we didn’t prepare a set dialogue, our shots were off, our continuity is so… I could go on but with out time constraint it was so awful I can’t even begin to describe how upsetting it is. Ugh.

Becca being an awesome detective

We also struggled to establish our shot-by-shot for our film since we, again, weren’t familiar with our location. We had a idea of what we wanted, but it wasn’t a clear cut idea. Plus, being in a rush took away from our focus on what are shots were going to be used and how they would be implemented. With a better idea of our location and with waaaaay more time, we will have a much better outcome than what we have right now.

Accomplishments

haha victoria is dead hahaha

We did, however, have plenty of time to shoot our evidence scene very well and had an amazing outcome. We spent an hour and a half setting up, a half an hour for snacks, and the rest of the time for shooting. We tried a few different shots such as a long take, taking closeups and tracking shots and having them fade into one another, and different variations of those different shots. Having the ability to test different shots allows us to see what different angles and shots gives us the best ideal vision that we have for our sequence.

we can’t technology

We also got a lot of planning done and gaining a much better understanding of how our camera works. Our better understanding of new technology is bettering us to become good at shooting out shots quickly and efficiently. Of course, the shots would have to be better and to our liking, but it’ll give us a better chance of shooting well when we are familiar with our technology.

Goals

For our title sequence to not suck :>

Okay, jokes aside, I do want a better outcome and to be able to maybe find a better location for the mise en scene we want. It would also give us a little more wiggle room for what we can accomplish.