Film Reflection 9

March 10th 2009

Today, my group and I continued to work on our comic strips. We went in an empty music room so that there would not be any background sounds when we record a sound or dialogue. We prepared all of the equipment, two cameras in order to film the documentary, some of the soundtracks and also the dialogue. We used the music room and finished filming the remaining dialogue. For the dialogue, Kevin played the part of the "hero" in the comic strip. He had to make his voice sound serious and anxious in order to fit the role of the hero within the story. I was picked to be the voice of the young prince, I was only required to say one line, which was, "where am I...Where's my mother?" In this scene, I had to pretend I was a child in order to match the dialogue and the child's voice. Benny was the voice of one of the farmers, while clare played the part of the other farmer. While recording the dialogue, we took turns filming the documentary, where we would capture our group practicing the voices of our specific characters as well as the actual recording. After we finished that, clare re-recorded some of the narrator parts of the comic strip. This was because our group was not satisfied with some of the parts recorded last lesson, for instance, "The road of the village of Hapur". We needed her voice to be more dramatic, suiting the atmosphere of the comic strip. While we finished that, we decided to split our group in two to be less time consuming. Benny was going to film the documentary, while Clare, Kevin and I took turns being interviewed. While we were waiting, we had to edit our comic strip on Final Cut Pro, so we could improve some of the placements of the sounds. When it was my turn to get interviewed, Benny asked me questions such as: "What is the comic mainly about?", and also: "How did we capture some of the foley?". I answered saying that a middle aged hero was on a mission to save a young prince, and because I did not know much about the background of the story, since it is not included in our scene, I could not reply furthur. I also described how we captured many of the foley, for instance, in order to capture the sounds of horse galloping, I took two large rocks and thumped them against the ground with the horse galloping rhythn. At the end of this lesson, we were able to capture what we did today, which included the documentary, sounds, narration and dialogue; though we did not have the time to edit them yet. Our goal for next lesson is to start editing the footage we captured today, and put them in place on Final Cut Pro. I thought that our group worked productively this lesson. We were very focused in our work, and got things done fast and simple. We were very co-operative, and time managing, which helped with our overall team work.