Sound

 Sound project

During the lesson on sound in class I learned about different types of sound in film making. How sound makes a huge difference in film production, giving dimension, emotional impact, complement visuals, and helps with viewer perception. The different types of sounds I learned about is synchronous sound, asynchronous sound, diegetic, nondiegetic, sound motif, sound perspective, sound bridge, and voiceover. I also learned about foley sounds, which are sounds that are made subsequent to the actual filming of the movie. They are made with different items or objects than actually used when filming. The directions for the Sound project were to create a 1–2-minute video, with no actual video being shown, to create a short film only using sound. We worked in partners, and had to create 4 of our own foley sounds. During editing, layering the sounds that we found was essential to create the effect of an actual scene going on. During brainstorming, I was thinking about something interesting that can be created and obvious to the listener to know what our scene is. At first, we chose a flight to New York City, but all of the things we had laid out was not possibly able to happen in the actual span of 1-2 minutes. My partner and I then decided on a plane crash, but that was going to be hard to depict, so we decided on a zombie attack. We then planned out the storyline, then the sounds that we would use and every sound that would be happening in that moment. Our outline helped with our sounds as we knew what sounds to pick and choose at each moment. The editing resource I used was Adobe Premiere, I believe that our video was decent, but there could definitely be improvements. When filming our foley sounds outside of the trees rustling, we didn't realize that in the background there were many daytime birds chirping, which was unrealistic to our scene which was at night, in a cemetery.

The link to the project: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KFMSemO8YaUfIQ4LFc0vRW4P5Yjt9UbS/view?usp=drive_link

Camera shots quiz

     Using the notes that we had taken in the previous class, our assignment was a presentation based quiz where we were tested on the camera shots that we had taken notes about. The directions stated that we should be creating a story using 15 of the camera shorts taught in class. 10 of those shots were mandatory, and the other 5 were our own free choice. We got to choose our partners in which i choose mine, and we got to work.

     The way that i approached this assignment was first laying out my thoughts on how i wanted our story to go, me and my partner had decided that using action figures as our inanimate objects was a good idea, along with a crocheted raccoon that he had. After we chose who our characters were going to be, (Iron man, Spiderman, two stick bots, and a crocheted raccoon) we got to work on creating the story line, and correlating which camera shot will go with each picture taken. We tried hard to get our camera shots to look somewhat like we described the scene, and it worked out pretty well, thats besides the completely unrealistic background.. since we don't have a random background scene laying around we had to get creative. An office chair which was basically broken was used as our rooftop, and when the raccoon was injured, we had used a circular sticky note to signify bleeding from injury. We wanted this story to show fighting and friendship, as it began with mugging, moved on to friendship, to betrayal, and finally friendship all over again. It was hard to depict emotion using inanimate objects, but after learning about camera shots it helped to create the emotion without there actually being any on the face.

     I believe that i did well at taking some of the photos, but they definitely need improvement on the clearness, sharpness, and the positioning. 

Link to presentation: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGPTL1trmY/ykyU9KZdK3xdBh_v-tE73g/edit?utm_content=DAGPTL1trmY&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

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 Hello my name is Alexis, 

I am creating a blog for my Aice Media Studies class.