sound evaluation- saving private ryan

Saving Private Ryan was groundbreaking for its sound. Using 5:1 it incorporates the audience into the scene. For example if you have a surround sound system the sound can make it sound like the bullets are wizzing past your ears. Making the film a new experience just through the use of sound.

The mass percentage of the sounds in this scene would have been man made, recoded in a foley studio. The sound of the waves hitting the ground are also not recorded on set. Since the crashing sound appears more crashing and violent than the image of the waves. Done to create an atmosphere, and incorporate how the soldiers were feeling, how it may have sounded to them. When the battle breaks out the soldiers come in and out of the water, the sound goes muffled when they are under. So the audience is experiencing the scene by what the soldiers hear, by doing this, it helps the audience understand the terror soldiers faced.

Match Move

To create this I first made the clip a composition. One of the first steps was to use the rotobrush tool and  highlight the girl. I then keyed out the model, using the brush to roughly select the area I needed to remove. I then selected freeze to save the keying process. I selected 'invert' and applied it to the match move dolly layer. Then changed the invert channel from RGB to alpha.

Log lines

Django unchained.

Original-

Death or despair reaps revenge, what happens when the defeated get another chance. Its time to get unchained.

Revised-

On the verge of a lifeless existence as a slave, Django has an opportunity to take his life back. But when faced with working next to the brutal white folk inflicting torture onto his fellow slaves, can he hide his roots in order to save his wife from a saddist Mississippi plantation owner?

Format from blake snyders turbo- charged log line. 

Beautiful scars 

At the hight of her career a georgeous model thinks she has it all. Until she gets caught in a fire, escaping with minor burns she is temporarily put into a burns unit. Now she must learn to look past what you see on the outside, and realise that beauty is more than skin-deep. 

Sound- case study

Devising and Planning a Soundtrack:

Devising a soundtrack can become very complicated unless everyone involved has a role in putting it together, and everyone on the team know the plan for sound ect. Especially the director, recordists, editors, and the composer. If the plan wasn't made clear it may cause issues in spotting, which is the organization process for timings etc. Or picture look, which id editing the sound in sync with the picture which if a clapper board isn't used can be very difficult and time consuming. When recording sound, in some cases, it would be wise to make two recordings, it is very easy for a glitch to ruin your sound, and if so your whole scene.

Runaway- My short film.

In my short film runaway I made a decision to have make it a non dialogue piece. But still wanted to use sound, so I chose to largely make my own sound rather than solely recording on set as I had a clear idea of exactly what I wanted.  I wanted the surroundings of the main character to be clear to the audience. The girl has left home and taken to the streets, therefore I want a lot of windy sounds to show she is cold. This sound will mostly be pre recorded. I think using loud sounds of the characters surroundings can evoke her emotion, putting a loud windy sound with an image of her looking cold and upset makes it clearer to the audience how she is feeling. I used soundtrack pro to make our soundtrack, this is a non-copyright software giving you access to millions of sounds. On the software we would search the sound we wanted, for example footsteps, and then drag that sound onto our timeline. On soundtrack pro you can edit each track on its volume level and even distort the sound to create something new. After doing this I would export it as an AIFF to apply it to final cut. 

Locations- since I am not using dialogue, this makes the planning for on location different. When using dialogue you need a direct mic, which only picks up sound in the direction its pointed, for example the boom mic. But I want all sounds in my piece, so the audience understand the surroundings. Therefore I will take a recording prior to filming on set, I will use a zoom h2m, this mic generally picked up all of the surroundings rather than being directed to the sound on one spot. 

Boom:

Zoom H2M

M3P is a format for audio tracks, it has high fidelity, is easy and simple to edit with and it doesn’t cost anything. You can also use it with HTTP, FTP protocols and on CD or other portable media. The only problem is sometimes the sound can be low quality, depending on what source it comes from. It also makes music piracy very easy, converting videos (mainly from YouTube) to Mp3, and having the music in a lower quality than the artist intended. And seriously lowering the profit for the artists.  Music artists usually apply to MCPS for a PRS to cover their music rights. They make monthly payments for the rights company to track the artists music, and ensure it doesn’t get illegally copied or re-distributed.  

 My Promo

When recording sound for my promo video I had to asses the location first, in order to select the right mic, all depending on outside noise, inside echo etc. Since I was interviewing I also wanted to use the right one to pick up peoples voices rather than unwanted noise. An omni directional microphone is the shotgun microphone, I used this as it seemed like the best option. I propped it on a surface in which it was facing the interviewee. The sound was good, but it did have a few clicks, so i ran it through soundtrack pro using the 'clicks and pops' selection to eliminate it.

Colour finesse

This is the clip before colour finesse, before i adjusted the RGB.

This is it after. I achieves this by heightening the gamma, pedestal and gain. A very simple way of making use of the colour.

This is my clip in colour finesse.

This is my clip after, my task was to make the paper appear white. I achieved this by hightning  the master gamma, master pedestal and master gain.

This is a clip I was given to correct, the colours are too dark and look slightly purple. Its obvious that the serious adjustment needs to be bringing up the shadows, which means adjusting the pedestals. 

I corrected this 

file formats

FILE FORMATS

MPG- movie files on the internet. known as 'moving picture experts group' or 'audio/visual file format. used on youtube Facebook etc. 

MP4- a digital multimedia format mainly used for audio files used on the internet/ipod/phone. can also be used to store video, and other data like still images and subtitles.

MOV- Known as  the Apple QuickTime Movie Format. Files used on mac books and played in quicktime. 

AVI- Stands for audio video interleave. A motion and sound picture file, produced for and by Microsoft Windows. 

WMV-windows media video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft.

FLV-An online player, Flash video. can use to play or contain video files with adobe flash player version 6-11. 

SWF-A flash format, used on ActionScript, Multimedia and Vector Graphics. They usually contain animations or applets.  

3GP-format designed for mobile phone and multimedia.

ASF-'Advanced System Format' used on Microsoft, its a digital/audio video container format, used for streaming media.