WATCH THE ABOVE VIDEO (it's the same as the one in the post below)
Next answer the following questions.
1) What are the strengths and weaknesses of the animated GIF format?
2) Find an example of an video/visual artist working with GIFs. Link to the work, take screenshots, briefly describe the work and fine 3 things about the work that you like and explain why?
3) Do you think that the .GIF format is a valid form of expression or just a quick LOL?
Using these two links as a start (but please research for more guidance) write yourself a 5 point guide of how to compose music for a film.
http://voices.yahoo.com/10-tips-writing-music-film-movie-2300898.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Compose-Music-for-Film
Now watch the video below and answer the questions.
Describe how Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan worked together to create the music for the Dark Knight?
What was the process that Hans Zimmer used to come up with the music?
What was Hans Zimmers intention when making this soundtrack? (0.30 for clues)
What qualities did Hans Zimmer want the music to have (try and find at east three)?
How do you feel about the final score and explain why you feel it works/doesn’t work.
Use the videos and the links below to answer the following questions:
What is a foley artist, what do they do and why are they needed?
Explain the order in which the Foley artist creates the sound (mention the 'prop pass')?
What are the key skills and qualities foley artists need to have?
What is the advantage of using real objects to create sound FX rather than using digital production or sound libraries?
Using specific examples describe how key sounds are created (use the Star Wars and Robin Hood clips if you want).
Start a new blog post and call it: Research into Recording Ambient Sounds and Dialogue
Write a well thought out, researched and developed to the following questions. The only way you can do this is by scrolling to the bottom of this blog post and make notes while reading the articles and watching the clips. So a) look at the questions and have an idea what you should be looking for, b) look at the links and make notes c) write your responses.
Please make you blogs look pretty so use images and embed videos (particularly the ones you might refer to). And please look at other sources than the ones provided.
1) Recording Ambient sounds
Write up your understanding of the importance of ambient sounds, the various techniques of how ambient sounds are recorded and list of tips you can take into your own practise.
Your answers must include
What is ambient sound recording.
Reference to specific examples.
Why 'hard cuts' are ill advised for ambient sound mixing.
The advantage of recording on location and not relying on sound library.
A mention to the software used for Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
2) Recording Dialogue
Write up your understanding of the difficulty of recording dialogue and list of tips you can take into your own practise.
Your answers must include
Reference to specific examples.
What is looping?
How ambient noise is important when shooting conversation scenes.
Why is location shooting difficult for shooting dialogue and how can it be overcome.
Interview with Director Francis Lawerence and Jeremy Peirson (Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor) of Hunger Games: Catching Fire
http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles/tips-recoding-sound-location
http://library.creativecow.net/cowdog/ADR/1
Start a blog post and name it P1. Use of music - legal considerations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/before-you-start/music-rights
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/before-you-start/legal-faqs#musicvideo
Now answer the following questions using the links above.
1) Right of use
What is the difference between publishing rights and recording rights?
How would you go about clearing a piece of music for use in your film?
Can you use music in your sequence if the composer has died?
What is incidental music?
2) Creative commons
What is Creative Commons?
Why does it exist?
Explain the 6 different types of license (include the logos if possible)
3) Your choice of music
Post a link to your music choice and
a) Explain why you chose this piece of music - mention tone, tempo, genre, instrumentation.
b) Provide the evidence that you have the rights to use this music in your final sequence - take a screenshot from the site you got it from/get the Creative Commons license logo/email from the composer and rights holder/screenshot of your composition if it was your own work.
AT THE VERY END OF THE POST COPY AND PASTE THE LINKS TO SHOW WHERE YOU GOT THE INFORMATION FROM
Annotate this sheets to plan where you need the different parts of your audio track - dialogue, music, ambience, sound FX. Use different colours, explain what you are going to use.
Use this Sound Sourcing sheet to organised what sounds you need for audio track and where you intend to source them from - this could be composing it yourself, foley sound creation, a sound library, on set recording (for maybe ambience and dialogue) or post-production dubbing/recording.
LAPTOPS
There you should be none of your files on your desktop - at all. There might be some shared resources, but apart from that your desktop must be CLEAR! Both classes will be told this so don't take it upon yourself to tidy up the files that belong to your Mac buddy.
DIGITAL FOLDERS
- By this I mean your folders on your Mac books. How organised is your work?
You should have a Project 1 folder which should be VERY ORGANISED. ALL the footage must be inappropriate folders with appropriate labels. You should also have folders for documents, assets for effects and documentation.
KEY THING TO REMEMBER IS THAT ONCE YOU START MOVING AND RENAMING FOOTAGE BOTH PREMIERE AND AFTER EFFECTS WON'T BE ABLE TO FIND IT - SO ONLY DO THIS TIDY AFTER YOU'VE FINISHED AND EXPORTED THE FINAL VERSION.
- You will also have a lot of files on the Mac of activities we did when learning After Effects and Premiere - TIDY THESE UP - even if it's just into two files, one called Premiere - the other After Effects.
PROJECT FOLDERS
These are the paper ones. Are these organised? Is every document in a plastic sleeve? Do you need new ring binders? Is it presentable for marking and moderation?
METADATA
All your footage must be labelled correctly and you must have a screenshot of your project window in PREMIERE proving this. Put this screenshot on your blog and explain your labelling system.
BOOKING FORMS
Do you have a signed (by Nick or Dave) A/V Booking form for every time you took a camera out?
WORK BOOKS
Have you an entry for every lesson you have worked on this project since the 13th of January outlining what you intended to do that lesson and what you managed to achieve?
WORK SCHEDULE
On the week planner have you updated when you were filming and when you were editing? This is a working document so feel free to create different versions and have a lot of amendments.
AFTER EFFECTS
Take a screenshot of your final AE projects for each of you effects - post this onto your blog and write underneath the process your took to create the effect - THIS IS IMPORTANT AS IT MEANS YOU CAN REPEAT THE PROCESS IF NECESSARY OR REFINE IT.
SHOT LOG SHEETS
Have you been filling in the log sheets recording your footage every time you've been filming? Once you import your footage organise it and label and log the time-codes into the tables - (work in a group to complete this task).THIS MUST BE DONE - IT'S PART OF THE PASS CRITERIA FOR THE UNIT.
Have you changed your script or your sequence? Has this been reflected in your documentation.
Sketch out new storyboard frames for new shot compositions and additions to your footage.
Update your script, add edits to your digital original and print out the new PAGE (not the whole document).
WE WILL BE CHECKING ALL OF THESE SO THEY HAVE TO BE DONE - SO DO THEM NOW AND GET THEM OUT THE WAY.