February 26 2009
This lesson, my group and I were continued to edit the soundtracks that we recorded during the previous lesson. So far, we got a few parts of the soundtracks placed in the correct place on the comic strips. Some of the soundtracks were not satisfactory, so we decided to edit some of them or re-recorded them. For example, there was a scene in the comic strip that had a picture of rocks falling off a cliff, my group and I wanted to create the sound of rocks falling of a cliff by collecting rocks and dropping them on a rocky floor. Though the outcome was not what we expected, and we were not very satisfied with it. The outcome did not sound like heavy rocks falling off a cliff, it sounded like glass being shattered onto the floor, and in the background, there were noises of buses and air conditioners. Therefore we decided to re-record that soundtrack and edit the other soundtracks slightly because those were content. Today we decided to split up in two groups, Benny and Kevin would continue to edit the soundtracks we recorded last lesson, and Clare and I worked on the documentary and record more soundtracks comic strip. We successfully recorded some of the documentary, describing what we had done so far and what we needed to redo or improve. We also recorded another sound which was meant to be wind. Clare and I used a thin piece of paper and went down to the car park to record the wind while the paper flapped. We wanted to make the sound realistic, and by adding that paper, we were able to record the sound of howling wind. Unfortunately, while we were doing the documentary, we accidentally overlapped the previous sound that we recorded. We were very frustrated, but decided to re-record it next lesson, hopefully the wind would sound as prominent as it did today. Overall, this lesson was very productive. My group and I were able to get many things done and developed the comic strip soundtracks. Our goal for next lesson would be to edit and improve the sounds that we have now therefore matching the comic strip more, making it more realistic.
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Monday, 23 February 2009
Film Reflection 6
February 23rd 2009
This lesson, my group and I, which only consisted of only Benny, Clare and I, continued to work on the soundtracks of "Dark Before Dawn" comic strip. We carried on with our original soundtrack document that we worked on last lesson, and finalized scene 24 to scene 29. While Clare and I were editing the soundtrack document, Benny taped bits of us talking and discussing about how we were going to create different sorts of sounds which matched the scenes of the comic strip for the documentary of the "How to be a Sound Designer" assessment process. Afterward, we prepared the filming and sound recording equipment and then started to discuss the locations we were going to record the sounds, since we already wrote down how we were going to create them. My group and I used many places to record the sounds, such as the climbing wall area, where we would use the soil to create a large thumping sound for the bird landing. We also collected some pebbles and scattered them across the floor to create the sound of pebbles moving from the wind. Furthermore, we recorded more sounds such as wind blowing and stones falling on the floor to create the sound of large rocks falling off a cliff. Our goal is to complete the sound recording as soon as possible so that we could have more time to edit them to where they are suppose to be placed in the comic. Today I developed my knowledge on the importance of sound recording, I realized that without sound, the comic would just be plan and unrealistic. I also developed a basic knowledge of sound recording, how to use the mic, where to hold it while recording, etc. I also improved my skills on using audio film equipment, as well as improving my teamwork skills, where everybody participates and engages into the activity. By the end of the lesson, my group finished planning the soundtracks for the comic strip, as well as completing a few of the basic soundtracks. We were also able to capture the soundtracks we recorded onto the computer and edited a little section of them. Overall, I thought this lesson was very useful because I learnt many methods of creating a variety of sounds through objects that I always use or see. I thought this lesson was very fun and very helpful, and I am very looking forward to continue creating sounds for the comic strip.
This lesson, my group and I, which only consisted of only Benny, Clare and I, continued to work on the soundtracks of "Dark Before Dawn" comic strip. We carried on with our original soundtrack document that we worked on last lesson, and finalized scene 24 to scene 29. While Clare and I were editing the soundtrack document, Benny taped bits of us talking and discussing about how we were going to create different sorts of sounds which matched the scenes of the comic strip for the documentary of the "How to be a Sound Designer" assessment process. Afterward, we prepared the filming and sound recording equipment and then started to discuss the locations we were going to record the sounds, since we already wrote down how we were going to create them. My group and I used many places to record the sounds, such as the climbing wall area, where we would use the soil to create a large thumping sound for the bird landing. We also collected some pebbles and scattered them across the floor to create the sound of pebbles moving from the wind. Furthermore, we recorded more sounds such as wind blowing and stones falling on the floor to create the sound of large rocks falling off a cliff. Our goal is to complete the sound recording as soon as possible so that we could have more time to edit them to where they are suppose to be placed in the comic. Today I developed my knowledge on the importance of sound recording, I realized that without sound, the comic would just be plan and unrealistic. I also developed a basic knowledge of sound recording, how to use the mic, where to hold it while recording, etc. I also improved my skills on using audio film equipment, as well as improving my teamwork skills, where everybody participates and engages into the activity. By the end of the lesson, my group finished planning the soundtracks for the comic strip, as well as completing a few of the basic soundtracks. We were also able to capture the soundtracks we recorded onto the computer and edited a little section of them. Overall, I thought this lesson was very useful because I learnt many methods of creating a variety of sounds through objects that I always use or see. I thought this lesson was very fun and very helpful, and I am very looking forward to continue creating sounds for the comic strip.
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Film Reflection 5
February 19 2009
This lesson, my group and I continued to work on the "How to be a Sound Designer" project, creating and exploiting soundtracks that would match with every detail of the comic strip. I learnt that the reason for creating the soundtrack was to increase our understanding on how sound effects, music and silence are used to create meaning overall. Our group members split parts, Benny and Kevin were temporarily in charge of the documentary while Clare and I worked mainly on planning the soundtracks for every scene of the comic strip. The most common used soundtrack for the overall comic strip was the sound of blowing wind, we decided to create the wind sound by using a piece of thin paper and letting it flap around wind outdoors. In some scenes, we decided to make the "wind" soundtrack softer and in some scene louder, depending on the overall theme of the scene. If the scene was dark, gloomy and frightening, we wanted to create the creepy feeling to the viewers, and also increase the tension in the atmosphere. We also used a lot of "walking" soundtrack, we decided to use a rock and scrap it through some pebbles on the floor to make it seem like someone was walking; this would make the scenes very realistic. We decided to work on the volume of the soundtracks as well, because we learnt that if something was far away, the sound it would make would be faint, and if we didn't adjust the volume for that, it would seems very unrealistic. For the dialogue, there were only a few people included in section 4 of the comic, the young prince, the hero and the two shepherd-looking men. Because there consisted of two boys and two girls in our group, we thought it would be unethical and unrealistic if girls did the voices of the characters, since they are all men. Though Benny and Kevin felt reluctant of taking the parts, therefore we needed to find someone's voice that could match the voices of all the characters, which we will be doing next lesson. At the end of the lesson, we were able to finish planning out all the soundtracks for our comic strip, we also planned out how we were going to create those sounds, which I found very helpful because it expanded our range of creativity. Overall, I found this lesson very useful because my group got a lot of this done, Benny and Kevin started a little bit of the documentary, which will continue you develop throughout this assignment. I thought this lesson was very entertaining, it tested our creativity of creating sounds, which I found very interesting.
This lesson, my group and I continued to work on the "How to be a Sound Designer" project, creating and exploiting soundtracks that would match with every detail of the comic strip. I learnt that the reason for creating the soundtrack was to increase our understanding on how sound effects, music and silence are used to create meaning overall. Our group members split parts, Benny and Kevin were temporarily in charge of the documentary while Clare and I worked mainly on planning the soundtracks for every scene of the comic strip. The most common used soundtrack for the overall comic strip was the sound of blowing wind, we decided to create the wind sound by using a piece of thin paper and letting it flap around wind outdoors. In some scenes, we decided to make the "wind" soundtrack softer and in some scene louder, depending on the overall theme of the scene. If the scene was dark, gloomy and frightening, we wanted to create the creepy feeling to the viewers, and also increase the tension in the atmosphere. We also used a lot of "walking" soundtrack, we decided to use a rock and scrap it through some pebbles on the floor to make it seem like someone was walking; this would make the scenes very realistic. We decided to work on the volume of the soundtracks as well, because we learnt that if something was far away, the sound it would make would be faint, and if we didn't adjust the volume for that, it would seems very unrealistic. For the dialogue, there were only a few people included in section 4 of the comic, the young prince, the hero and the two shepherd-looking men. Because there consisted of two boys and two girls in our group, we thought it would be unethical and unrealistic if girls did the voices of the characters, since they are all men. Though Benny and Kevin felt reluctant of taking the parts, therefore we needed to find someone's voice that could match the voices of all the characters, which we will be doing next lesson. At the end of the lesson, we were able to finish planning out all the soundtracks for our comic strip, we also planned out how we were going to create those sounds, which I found very helpful because it expanded our range of creativity. Overall, I found this lesson very useful because my group got a lot of this done, Benny and Kevin started a little bit of the documentary, which will continue you develop throughout this assignment. I thought this lesson was very entertaining, it tested our creativity of creating sounds, which I found very interesting.
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Film Reflection 4
February 12 2009
Today, our class was given rubrics and a description of what our next assignment would be. I read the sheets, and learnt that the aim for this assignment would be to focus on using sounds to enrich our films and to boost our knowledge and appreciation of the usage of recording sounds. I learnt that during the process of this assignment, we will be understanding the importance of sound recording and also increasing our knowledge and skills on using audio film equipment. While looking the criterias, I realized that this assignment, "How to be a Sound Designer", was to develop our awareness on Health & Social Education, and to boost our understanding on local and global issues. While Ms. Wong was describing our tasks for this assignment, which consists of many activies which include observing a variety of things like dramatic frilm texts, comics (making audio for it), practicing our creativity and confidence, and many more. At the middle of the lesson, my group, which included of Clare, Benny, Kevin and I, started to analyze the comic called, "Dark Before Dawn", that was given to us. At first we were very confused, but we started to understand a little more when we started reading from the beginning of the book, beacuse our part was the 4th section of the book. Our group starting to plan the audio recordings that we could do for each scene of the comic, in many scenes, beause the atmosphere looks gloomy and melancholy, thats why we planned to make sounds that depict the mood and the theme, matching the comic. Some of the planned sounds were: crickets, wind blowing constantly and footsteps in the backgroud. At the end of the lesson, my group and I were able to finish planning half of the audio in the scenes. Overall, I thought this lesson was very useful because we would briefly know what we will be doing next.
Today, our class was given rubrics and a description of what our next assignment would be. I read the sheets, and learnt that the aim for this assignment would be to focus on using sounds to enrich our films and to boost our knowledge and appreciation of the usage of recording sounds. I learnt that during the process of this assignment, we will be understanding the importance of sound recording and also increasing our knowledge and skills on using audio film equipment. While looking the criterias, I realized that this assignment, "How to be a Sound Designer", was to develop our awareness on Health & Social Education, and to boost our understanding on local and global issues. While Ms. Wong was describing our tasks for this assignment, which consists of many activies which include observing a variety of things like dramatic frilm texts, comics (making audio for it), practicing our creativity and confidence, and many more. At the middle of the lesson, my group, which included of Clare, Benny, Kevin and I, started to analyze the comic called, "Dark Before Dawn", that was given to us. At first we were very confused, but we started to understand a little more when we started reading from the beginning of the book, beacuse our part was the 4th section of the book. Our group starting to plan the audio recordings that we could do for each scene of the comic, in many scenes, beause the atmosphere looks gloomy and melancholy, thats why we planned to make sounds that depict the mood and the theme, matching the comic. Some of the planned sounds were: crickets, wind blowing constantly and footsteps in the backgroud. At the end of the lesson, my group and I were able to finish planning half of the audio in the scenes. Overall, I thought this lesson was very useful because we would briefly know what we will be doing next.
Monday, 9 February 2009
Film Reflection 3
February 9th 2009
This lesson, my class and I learnt sound techniques that could be used in a movie or a clip. First of, we watched a video about many different sounds that could be used to improve the sound quality of a movie. For instance, the video showed a clip of a dinosaur eating leafs, because it sound much louder and clearer if the sound was retaken and edited, the man in the video poured salt in a little sac and started grasping it with his hands, creating a munching sound, similar to leaves. Another exampled showed in the video, was of a dinosaur running. I found this one really interesting because the retaken sound was actually a brick being bashed against the floor, and it sounded so similar. I also learnt that when a sound is being recorded, there has to be dynamics in the process as well, just like the dinosaur running, the volume of the sound retaken went softer as the dinosaur ran farther away, which is what made the video seem even more realistic. After watching the movie, my group, Nick, Clare, Joe and I tried to make the sounds ourselves. We were asked to record or create a variety of sounds, these consists of, water, work, time, emergency, danger, love, silence, joy, youth and destruction. For each different sound, we used different techniques and methods of recording them. The sound I found most fun recording was destruction, since it is very challenging, my group and I tried many ways of creating the sound; for instance, hitting on walls, stomping really hard on the floors, and many more. At the end of the class, I successfully learnt how to make and edit sounds so that the final product of a video would be better, because the sound of the video is very important, especially to the audience. I also learnt many methods of making a certain sound. I thought this class was very fun, and very useful. I will definitely use the techniques that I learnt today, especially for filming purposes in the future.
This lesson, my class and I learnt sound techniques that could be used in a movie or a clip. First of, we watched a video about many different sounds that could be used to improve the sound quality of a movie. For instance, the video showed a clip of a dinosaur eating leafs, because it sound much louder and clearer if the sound was retaken and edited, the man in the video poured salt in a little sac and started grasping it with his hands, creating a munching sound, similar to leaves. Another exampled showed in the video, was of a dinosaur running. I found this one really interesting because the retaken sound was actually a brick being bashed against the floor, and it sounded so similar. I also learnt that when a sound is being recorded, there has to be dynamics in the process as well, just like the dinosaur running, the volume of the sound retaken went softer as the dinosaur ran farther away, which is what made the video seem even more realistic. After watching the movie, my group, Nick, Clare, Joe and I tried to make the sounds ourselves. We were asked to record or create a variety of sounds, these consists of, water, work, time, emergency, danger, love, silence, joy, youth and destruction. For each different sound, we used different techniques and methods of recording them. The sound I found most fun recording was destruction, since it is very challenging, my group and I tried many ways of creating the sound; for instance, hitting on walls, stomping really hard on the floors, and many more. At the end of the class, I successfully learnt how to make and edit sounds so that the final product of a video would be better, because the sound of the video is very important, especially to the audience. I also learnt many methods of making a certain sound. I thought this class was very fun, and very useful. I will definitely use the techniques that I learnt today, especially for filming purposes in the future.
Saturday, 7 February 2009
Film Reflection 2
February 5th 2009
Today, my group and I starting editing the clips we took last lesson. We started by cutting the excess clips, such as many of the clips we took of us walking up the stairs, because we couldn’t get it right until many trials later. The biggest part that we cut was the part of “A student walks up the stairs look up in surprise”, because the clip was either too dark, or we didn’t look surprised. In the end, my group and I decided that we should retake that part, because none of those clips were suitable. We retook about 5 clips and finally captured the perfect clip. Though when we captured the clips onto the computer and re-watched them, we realized that it was just a little too dark, so we used the movie-editing program to make it brighter. After cutting the clips and reorganizing them, we added titles before each part that include the effect and atmosphere of the section. By the end of the class, I learnt how to use many special filming techniques, and editing techniques as well, such as how to use the “blur” effect on the camera, how to modify the colors and many more. I thought theses techniques were very useful, especially for future filming. I thought this lesson was very helpful and very amusing because I love editing films, and our group had a huge laugh about it during the lesson, and it made this session very entertaining.
Today, my group and I starting editing the clips we took last lesson. We started by cutting the excess clips, such as many of the clips we took of us walking up the stairs, because we couldn’t get it right until many trials later. The biggest part that we cut was the part of “A student walks up the stairs look up in surprise”, because the clip was either too dark, or we didn’t look surprised. In the end, my group and I decided that we should retake that part, because none of those clips were suitable. We retook about 5 clips and finally captured the perfect clip. Though when we captured the clips onto the computer and re-watched them, we realized that it was just a little too dark, so we used the movie-editing program to make it brighter. After cutting the clips and reorganizing them, we added titles before each part that include the effect and atmosphere of the section. By the end of the class, I learnt how to use many special filming techniques, and editing techniques as well, such as how to use the “blur” effect on the camera, how to modify the colors and many more. I thought theses techniques were very useful, especially for future filming. I thought this lesson was very helpful and very amusing because I love editing films, and our group had a huge laugh about it during the lesson, and it made this session very entertaining.
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Film Reflection 1
February 2 2009
This lesson, I learnt many things about filming, such as many interesting film techniques, for instance changing the effect, and changing the mood of the film, and many more. My group and I, who consisted of Benny, Kevin, Clare and myself, were assigned to complete an exercise called the “Cinematography Scavenger Hunt”. We captured many clips of us doing different things, such as picking up a piece of paper, and walking up the stair, having an engaged conversation with your friends, and typing on a computer. While filming these clips, we changed the effect of the film, for instance a sharp and detailed effect. Another one was changed the atmosphere of the film, making it seem coarse and documentary-like. We also learnt that we could change the mood of the scene by changing the color, which I found very interesting. Overall, I found this lesson very useful, especially because I learnt many of the basic techniques of filming, I thought the activities were a great way to start of a new term.
This lesson, I learnt many things about filming, such as many interesting film techniques, for instance changing the effect, and changing the mood of the film, and many more. My group and I, who consisted of Benny, Kevin, Clare and myself, were assigned to complete an exercise called the “Cinematography Scavenger Hunt”. We captured many clips of us doing different things, such as picking up a piece of paper, and walking up the stair, having an engaged conversation with your friends, and typing on a computer. While filming these clips, we changed the effect of the film, for instance a sharp and detailed effect. Another one was changed the atmosphere of the film, making it seem coarse and documentary-like. We also learnt that we could change the mood of the scene by changing the color, which I found very interesting. Overall, I found this lesson very useful, especially because I learnt many of the basic techniques of filming, I thought the activities were a great way to start of a new term.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)