Level 3 media: February 2017

Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Job Roles

Sound Designer/Editor

The specifications for this job are

Creating and record sound effects for productions such as gun shots , explosions , and general post production sounds .
Ambient sounds
Managing and editing sound in post production

I am comparing the two dream jobs i would like to do in the future .
They are different in aspects such as Sound Designer is more audio and Film editor would be visual.
A Sound Designer would work with the Director but would not necessarily have a team of assistants

Sound Designer qualities that would be needed....
I would need to pay close attention to detail to mixing, recording and editing sound. An excellent knowledge of computers and sound editing software are a necessary requirement. It would help to think quickly and be a good problem solver.
I think i am suited to a sound engineers job because i have good creative and computer knowledge , but need to develop sound and editing aspects . I would like to gain more experience in this area .
The usual routes are highlighted from the industry association (ASD) in the link below

http://www.associationofsounddesigners.com/whatis

The work plays to my strengths:

Editing software
Attention to detail
Imaginative
Resourceful

Pros

Creative atmosphere
Have to be a perfectionist
Experiment with audio and film technology
Enjoy music
Enthusiastic about films

Cons

Working under pressure and tight deadlines
Unpredictable structure of the work
Hard to update latest technology

Film Editor

The specifications for this job are

working closely with the director to edit the completed film
Working long hours using editing software
running a team of assistants and trainees

The work plays to my strengths:

Editing software
Attention to detail
Resourceful
strong visual memory

I think I have strong editing skills which I can further develop if I were to become a member of a film or television production team. This has been demonstrated in my media project .

To progress to this job i would initially seek a job within the industry as a Runner . Having completed level three second year in media , and then progressed to a relevant course at university .

I am dedicated to getting things right and I am extremely flexible about the possible long hours that are required in production.

CV meeting from Future Hub

Monday, 27 February 2017

Prezi presentation

The patterns were Moving Image and Audio were positives, the negative and things that didn't were work well, were written tasks and evaluations.

animate evaluation

With the playing animation I experimented using video footage. I recorded the footage and then imported it into Adobe Premier Pro, then exported the video as a PNG. I then opened up Animate and created a symbol graphic, then inserted one frame for every five frames because there were 150 frames.If I was going to do this animation again I would make the video footage smoother and capture footage that works better when looping, because as it stands the hand works well, it's just the footage. I would also like to add a few more moving parts

For the car animation, if I was going to do it again, I would make the cars look more like they're racing, not just overtaking and recreate the car image to look more like racing cars. I like the rotating wheel animation, the lines help with the illusion, but I could improve the direction they are going because towards the end of the animation, the rear wheel spins backwards because it was difficult to se which way I'd turned it from frame to frame..

with this animation I could have improved the impact of the bounce by implementing more frames which would help with the smoothness of the bounce impact. I would also create a 3D ball using photoshop to make it more like a ball.

The waiting animation I am not too pleased with because the character I designed is not interesting because drawing people is an area I need to improve in my skills. I am pleased with the drawing of the bus and the animation of the bus.

Sunday, 26 February 2017

playing GIF

Thursday, 23 February 2017

.sound redub and mockumentary

PRE
I intend to reshoot my mockumentary to implement a better location, and reduce background noise - which I will do by using a better mic and a quieter location. I also want to make the images at the beginning myself using photoshop, and mix the audio levels better
I HAVE DECIDED TO USE A COMPUTER GENERATED VOICE INSTEAD OF THE INTERVIEWER VOICE, THIS WILL ADD A COMICAL ASPECT TO THE MOCKUMENTARY and also some ambient background noise to imply that this is the interviewer's real voice.

Re cut evaluation

I decided to re-design the chocolate image to be copyright free because the original image was Toblerone, I did a copyright free search and I don't believe the image was copyright free due to Toblerone. I used Photoshop and 3D layering. I think it's better now, but I'd also like to have had time to add letters to the chocolate to spell out "chocolate" and also add a chocolate texture to it. I prioritised my time to overdub the video to make the video more comical using an electronic video as this fits into the brief requiring a comedic one minute video. The electronic voice was very hard to overdub right because certain words the electronic voice says slower than the actors and so the lip synch didn't quite match. If I had speeded up the overdub it wouldn't sound right.

I used an 3.5m double-headed cable which I plugged into both the headphone socket and the line-in microphone socket. This let me record audio from www.naturalreaders.com which is a text-to-speech website. This enabled me to paste the script onto the website which then read it out in an electronic voice of my choosing. I chose "Ryan" as the voice because it is the same voice that is used in the "illumanti confirmed" videos - a parody account on youtube. This is the same subject as the theme of my mockumentary.

I overlaid the voice with the voice of the actor and then eventually delete the actor's voice. I had to tweak the speed to try and match the actor's lips but it's still slightly out. I also had to record a buzz track as there was no background sound with the electronic voice, which I recorded with a directional boom microphone in the foyer of the college - this was the best microphone for the job because it's good at picking up crowd sounds rather than focusing on one thing.

Given more time I would boost up the gain of the ambient background track. I am happy with the audio re-dub.

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

look book peer assessment

i decided on some relevant questions that would be open , and give helpful honest feedback . They were on areas that i was concerned about and felt may have needed more work .

They offered advice that i would implement if i had another chance to create the look book .
Such as including more pictures of the Tshirts and less plain pages . My personal opinion would be to also implement more text to describe and sell the clothing .

Feedback drew attention to the size of the logo , which was quite large . I could have reduced the size of the logo , and had an extra Tshirt photo in the book . Showing a variety of clothing available .

The comments were positive on my use of photoshop , i was asked how i achieved the well blended photos .

. They liked the range of photos i used from the Star Wars films as a background to the clothing

Monday, 20 February 2017

chrismas

Santa's Workshop

Walt Disney animated it using pen to sketch out each frame. Then using Technicolour to colour in the frames. For the time this was very advanced. The colours are somewhat muted compared to modern day animation, the lip-synch was out due to the way it was animated and produced. They recycled several scenes and sound clips probably to keep the budget down. There was quite a few stereotypes such as one of the toys (who was black) stamped the OK stamp without Santa doing it for him. This symbolises for the time doing something without being asked.

Santa Claus Is Coming

The animation was done using probably Flash because the lines were too smooth and intricate to be done using hand-drawn methods. The sound of this animation was good because before she saw Santa it was a typical Christmas backing track then when she actually saw Santa they twisted and sped up an alternative Christmas backing track. In all of these animations, the main character is always Caucasian which is the typical stereotypical view of the Christmas main character. I think this is down to being Victorian Christmas views.

Christmas Comes But Once A Year

I think the 3D animation segments at the start and the end with early stop-motion and a physical model.

expressions

cv edit

Sunday, 12 February 2017

burn out evaluation

Pre-Production

I originally intended to have the film set on a plane , which the college has the set for ,unfortunately this was unavailable. I also intended to film in the science lab ,but as I was unable to use the plane my script had to be modified . My original idea was a bit complicated and it needed simplifying , so it was more in line with the brief . I did a recce of multiple locations including the green screen room , office , my house , all of which were internal . I eventually settled on filming at my house , I decided this because my script had a toy gun in it and i would be unable to film it at college due to this being against college policy . I realised filming in my home would be difficult as the lighting would be inconsistent in certain rooms at different times of day . If i had been filming at the front of the house in the morning to get the same level of light i would have to wait until the afternoon to film at the back of the house to get the same level . I would be unable to use ceiling lights because I wanted a more natural effect. If I had been filming at college i would have had the artificial lighting , and I would have had access to a microphone which would have enabled me to use more dialogue

FILM

Production

For my film i decided to play all the characters myself with one exception the radio man which i recorded using another students voce

the filming was difficult for many reasons one of which was the lighting. Filming at different time of the day caused the lighting to be inconsistent. If i was going to do this project again i would film using artificial light but this was not possible in this location filming because I was filming at my house i would have to film elsewhere. Another challenge was the fight scene because i was playing both characters there was a lot of work to match up the 2 shots for example when I changed character and when i was opting the camera the door moved slightly which was noticeable when edited together. The solution I found was to secure with a door stop. the lighting was a bit inconsistent but it is a bit better once i reshot the scene.

The shot types it used were extreme close ups,mid shot and close ups. If i was going to film again i would have a camera man to film more shot types for example a tracking shot. This shot was not possible because I was the actors and the camera man. I had to cut most of the dialogue from the script because the film did not need that much information for the viewer. The main edit was the dialogue from the man stealing the documents from Incognito. I cut this due to the lack of footage to go along with it and it would have taken away the suspense. I did record several voices saying different dialogue for the intro, but this became irrelevant to the bigger picture I was attempting to create.

(Above is the Roto Brush Symbol used in After Effects)

Post-Production

Post production I decided to use after effects to merge the two video clips I recorded together which I played both of the characters. I used the Roto brush tool to select the character in the chair then I entered the second footage which i filmed all in the same spot using a tripod. The second footage I inserted the character on top of the footage then overlapped a green screen gunshot copyright free effect. I created a timer to symbolise the urgency and timescale of the movie. This I did on Premier Pro, but had to add each minute manually. I inserted black bars to create a cinematic view, this added to the atmosphere of an action movie feel.

I disliked the intro scene because the graph line I created on Photoshop I selected the wrong brush tool to create it and only found out it was fuzzy when I exported and inserted it into after effects.. I exported the image as 4K resolution from Photoshop to eliminate the pixilation of the text when I zoomed into the image to create a tracking shot of the graph line.

At 0:43 seconds there is an overlap of the gunshot after effect on the character that slides down the wall which I only realised when I exported it. This distracts the viewer from an otherwise realistic effect.

I ended up shooting the film several times due to the imperfect merging of the clips together. For example, in the fight scene there was the door being in a slightly different position in each shot when I changed mask and walked past the door. The lighting was a challenge because I wanted a consistent time frame.

planing the sound for shot film burn out

i inted to use muisc i cretied on garage band as the soundtrack in the scean whitch the main charter in sceaching the house i need to sorce sound effects on freesound.org and you tube all whitch are copyrigth free i also need to create a voce whitch will be usesd for the hackers voce
i will uses the website https://www.naturalreaders.com/ whitch is a text to speak software i will record this using a screen recorder and remvoe the vidoe on premer pro

the effects i need to sorce are
gun shot of action scane
computor voce for hackers voce
epic muisc for biggining

Thursday, 9 February 2017

Look Book evaluation

I decided to do an R2-D2 design mixed with a superhero cape. This was for my t-shirt and was a spoof t-shirt. I originally thought I should do a DJ Stormtrooper, but decided that drawing a Stormtrooper in the pose I wanted would be too difficult, so I did R2-D2 instead which I'm very pleased with the design, but I could've spent more time perfecting the cape and I could've put text around the logo to establish the brand. For the look book, I photoshopped a Yoda head and lightsaber onto an actor's body to establish the Star Wars brand and the cult interest. For the look book I could've incorporated more pages with images and text on them. I think that there are too many blank pages with no text. I could also improve the amount of pictures I incorporated into it. I did take more than I needed, but it would all be too similar, so a better variety of images would have given me more to work with.

fashion brief intentions

Three items of clothing that i like are

Rolling Stones ..Music t-Shirt

Star Wars ...Movie T-Shirt

Hoodie ...Jack Jones make

Not influenced by labels , i like what is on the T-shirt . I like design which is clever or obscure . Designs that combine different films , like Star Wars and Pulp Fiction spoofs .

For the fashion project I intend to get a cult classic logo or character, redesign to incorporate two different aspects of culture - possibly Star Wars and superheroes. I intend to use photoshop to create this design and use several different photoshop techniques such as 3D layers and colour matching tool to get the shade of colour similar to the design of the character that is already established such as a Star Wars character like a Stormtrooper