In my film sequence called on the run I was in charge of sound and editing; and this was quite a challenge to do seeing as i had to cover two whole sections of the film making due to my group having only two members.
Doing the sound was a very tricky part but it ended up being very good; Because we filmed in a car park there was a lot of wind which meant the sound quality was poor and the voices were muffled and the atmospheric sound changed a lot because of the amount of wind in each shot. So what i had to do was level out the sound in each shot to make the atmospheric sound not look bad which meant I had to lower the sound of the roof scenes in order to not make a massive atmospheric sound jump. And a good example of where this happened is near the end of the film clip where Sean walks out of the car park elevator and onto the open top roof of the car park; and because the car park had a open top roof this meant all the wind came straight past the top floor of the car park which meant the atmospheric sound raised greatly in a single shot without meaning too and ruined the continuity of the film clip and in response to this I had to go onto final cut express which was my editing tool and I had to lower the sound for all the rooftop clips in order not to make a big sound jump. The shot that I did this too was :
Another sound problem that I occurred was trying to find suitable sound effects that matched my film sequence and it took a long time trying to find a useful sound of a car but after my teacher put a list of sound effects on the computer this turned into a easy job because it had a good sound of a car, helicopter, a dog barking and a door opening which helped make the film piece sound better.
Another difficult sound problem I had that I had to fix was the bad timing of the synchronized sound matching with the video, and this happened because we had to delete a part of the video which was not needed and it left me with a out of time soundtrack and this meant i had to carefully use the snatch tool and cut the sound that was out of time in order to make the soundtrack not sound out of time. The soundtrack I made was one similar to a soundtrack in the film called 'Harry Brown' and I thought the soundtracks in that film were very good and that is what inspired me to make a soundtrack for my film 'on the run'
The sound that I did put into the film clip was a soundtrack that was made in garageband, I made the soundtrack a deep fast paced soundtrack that made it get faster up until the deal starts to get made; and I did this in order to build up tension leading into the drug deal and this is used with more sounds being added the further in the clip goes and I think this is very effective in setting the genre of a thriller.
I feel that I worked well with Kieron because he used his directing skills in order to get some good shots of the drug deal taking place and this helped out the sound part that I did because the shots were fairly straight forward and they showed the two people going to meet each other which left me with an easy task of finding some easy soundtracks to match the shots.
I feel that I adapted very well to the plans of the sound as I went along because at first the drug deal sounded quite good but when we took it back and examined it in the media studies room it sounded awful due to the dirty sound caused by the wind. But what I did do in order to make the clip sound better was I lowered the sound of the scene of the heavy wind in order to keep a same level of atmospheric sound which would keep the continuity going.
Overall I feel that I learnt quite a lot about sound being used as a creative tool because it allowed me to completely change what was happening in the film clip by adding so many sound effects such as cars, door and even dogs barking and it also allowed me to be creative by fixing continuity by lowering the atmospheric sound rather the re shooting the clip again. And I think this film called Harry Brown was a big inspiration to me because it showed how sound can be used to create a thriller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKndltmgxWo
The editing in my film clip was also a very hard thing to do because it is a very important micro element that can determine what the narrative of the film is and because the narrative was a thrilling drug deal the editing had to be spot on in order to make the audience know this is happening and that is why I put in a lot of quick cuts in order to build tension and this is especially when Sean ( second drug dealer ) goes to meet his seller and there is a fast paced quick series of shots which is used to build tension for the audience and I did this by editing together all of the shots of Sean walking towards the door by linking them up to make the shots have continuity and to increase the amount of tension being made. The shot of this happening is like this shot where Jay just gets into the elevator and there is a lot of quick cuts
There was a few problems that I occurred while doing editing and one was the whole importing part of editing; when I imported the film clip I didn't know how long the duration was so I did it for sections of 1 minute, which lead to me being confused about which parts are what and there was quite a few errors that I made during this like I lost one section but thankfully I uploaded the footage again and took the part I needed and I made the editing look a whole lot better.
What I thought was also quite hard to do was the whole job of using editing to determine what genre of film this was going to be and this is because if it was a happy romantic film it would be a more slow moving film but because this is a thriller I had to use fast paced shots and quick duration shots too in order to give the sense that the film is a thriller to the audience
I also received feedback which was to make it so both people walk into the car park at the same time but I thought this wouldn't work because I would need more shots first of all of the drug dealers seeing each other before they get to the car park
And I feel that a big inspiration to my editing was James Cameron’s terminator 2 and this was useful because it shows quick duration shots when the woman is shooting the gun to increase the thrill of the film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qseIKHvh4M&feature=related
