Sense of Space (Sound assignment)

It has been a while since my last post due to lots of work however the week before last we were given our next CMPP assignment!

The assignment is 3minutes long and is a sound only project, we listened to a few examples of sound only works and started thinking.
I am working with Charlotte Harvey for this project, origonally we had no clue of what to do at all! However we eventually came up with an interesting idea. We plan on our narrative being someine trying to get to sleep however he hears noises around him that stop him from sleeping. This idea came Falling Down and Tango which both build layers in a way we plan on doing.

A few days ago we did our recording and it went fairly well, we recorded:
dripping
breathing
throat clearing
alarms
bass music
arguing
door slamming
toilet flushing
ticking
We think these sounds will make good layers to build tension and anger.

Edale the end!

So on the way home the other day I spotted some places that are pretty woody and I decided to use them instead of going back to Edale. I think it went pretty well it fits with the rest of the footage nicely. I then edited the whole thing again with the focus on technology and nature  being together instead of opposing. This worked really well, the final edit has a really nice structure where you see a repeated sequence of technology and then a shot of nature and tech together, after that you see the sequence again but the piece of tech you have seen in nature is seen in nature again instead. This repeats until all of the section is mixed with nature. It ends with a nature shot that zooms into a phone that was not in the tech sequence showing how it is not just the pieces we have shown that are connected.
Hopefully that is it done, presenting tomorrow :S. Wish me luck!

Edale pickup shoot

So after the feedback for the rough edit i have decided to alter the premise of the E-Dale short. Rather than focusing on conflicting technology and nature it will show nature and technology harmoniously. So tomorrow I am going to shoot some more things for the edit to make it smoother and make the new message more coherent. 

Feedback on the E-dale rough edit

Uh oh, the feedback session didn't go well. We managed to finish the edit in time and personally were quite happy with the outcome and confident it was good. Our tutor however struggled to understand the piece and thinks we need to alter it a lot if we want it to work, he suggested we;
Create a visual key at the start of the pulling back shot or ELS shots 
Create a bolder sense of pace
Use less still medium shots
Try to create a "revealing rhythm" 
Maybe do more shooting.
Me and Joe talked about the feedback a little however he is away until Wednesday and this must be done for Friday so I shall be going to Edale to do some pick ups on Wednesday and will be planning the edit on Wednesday too. I am definitely going to try and create more pace in the edit once there is more footage to use, with more footage I can use some extremely fast cuts and not worry about running out of shots. I also think the idea of a visual motif will strengthen the short and I will try and work that into the edit.

IMDB news of the day

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/helena-bonham-carter-havisham-great-expectations/
A good choice of character, should be good to see. Although she should look older.
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/check-3d-concept-art-the-hobbit-video-blog/
Some cool concept art for the hobit in 3D which is unusual but cool.
http://www.slashfilm.com/superhero-bits-114/
Superhero films updates allways close to my heart
http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=32400
Apes is a good franchise its nice to see serkis staying with it

Editing Seale project

Attempted to edit the Edale project yesterday however it took us hours just to upload the footage and by the time we had started editing we had to move rooms. Unfortunatly we didnt have an external hard drive to move the footage to another computer so we were stuck for the day. Today shall be our second try, fingers crossed!

IMDB's best news

Shane black on Iron Man 3, sounds interesting
http://www.reelz.com/movie-news/12184/director-shane-black-discusses-the-realism-and-action-of-iron-man-3/
And an unsurprisingly massive number of explosions from Michael Bay summed up here
http://www.movieline.com/2011/11/guess-how-many-onscreen-explosions-michael-bay-has-created.php

IMDB's best film news of the day

I think I may start this as a regular post as i usually check imdb most days and today is a slow one however:
Tin Tin seems to be doing well 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/nov/01/tintin-adventures-take-off-raone
More Dark Knight Rises pics
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/totalfilm/imdbnews/~3/teZvMtCUAgM/more-dark-knight-rises-pics-leak-online
But most excitingly Rafe Spall talks about Promethius a very little bit. I find this particularly exciting as Rafe comes from a really small part in Shaun Of the Dead originally and the idea that from there he is working on Preomethius is really inspiring.
http://collider.com/rafe-spall-anonymous-prometheus-interview/122011/