Film Reflection 11

March 19 2009

Today, during class the first five minutes of class, my group and I rushed to finish off our comic strip. Since Benny and Kevin were in charge of the documentary and Clare and I were in charge of the comic, we split into two groups and worked as quickly as we could to finish. We were able to finish everything except for the background music, which Kevin was in charge of, but didn't send it to us. Clare and I were very frustrated, we exported the project and put it into the "drop box". Afterward, our class had the opportunity to watch all the other groups comic strip soundtracks and documentary. The first group was Issac Dunlop's group, and their comic was showed first. I was amazed by how well they created the foley, it looked as though they had lots of experience with this sort of work. I was especially surprised by their voices, and how well they matched the voices of the people in the comic strip. Francessca was the voice of the Princess in the coimic strip, her voice matched it really well and it made the tense atmosphere realistic. There was a lot of emotion in everyone's voice, even Tiffany, who played the voice of the baby was very realistic, and the editing made the voice seem even more real. Overall, I found their work very impressive, and since I haven't had any experience with Final Cut Pro, I felt as though I could have widely improved my comic soundtracks, and made everything more realistic. Afterwards, we watched their documentary, which showed the process of the making of the entire project. I fount it very interessting, and I also learnt many new ways of recording different types of foley. The second group was Andrew, Joanna, Justin, Joshua and Lucas' group. After watching the comic and the soundtrack they produced, I was more amazed. I felt terrified, and compared to them, I thought my work was horrible and was embarrased to show it. I loved the background music that they chose, it matched the scene of the comic as well as the atmosphere. The voices also matched very well with the characters in the comic strip, I especially liked Andrew's imitation of the bad guy's voice, it was terrific and very realistic; again, it was edited. Afterward, we watched their documentary, and we were able to see an insight of recording their voices, and their process of creating the comic. After that, we watched group 3's comic strip. I thought their one was not as realistic because there was no emotion in their voices, which lowered the gloomy atmosphere. I thought their trick of crumpling the pack of chips for rain was unsuccessful, because it was obvious that they were doing so while watching. Overall, it was decent and well done, the foley was nicely recorded, and the dialogue was placed in the right places. We watched their documentary afterwards, I thought it was very intersesting because again it showed the development of the entire process of create, and also whos voice was which character. Due to the lack of time, our group's video, which was supposingly next was not showed. I was very relieved because after watching some of the group's comics, I felt terrified because our's wasn't half as good. Overall, this lesson was very interessting, I saw the work of 3 groups, and I thought they all did a great job. I am looking forward to watching more projects next lesson, though a little nervous about ours.