Scribes - The Aftermath

A vast amount of work went into our short film 'Scribes'. Not to mention our extremely ambitious undertaking of building an apartment set! Though stressful and full of complications, it all worked out well in the end. The audience we were targeting was 16-32 year olds who like comedies and dramas. It turned out not to be as comedic as we originally planned, but still very dramatic! 

The main character is a young man called Daniel. He suffered with mental disorders in the past but with medication and therapy, has been able to live a normal life. In the time the film is set in, he has come down with a bad cold. It has now been a few days and he hasn't left his living room. 

So to achieve this atmosphere and mood we created a very messy living room set. There are crumpled-up used tissues scattered everywhere and half a dozen empty pizza boxes piled on top of each other!

We spent a great deal of time focusing on the alleyway scene of the film, as this was the most pivotal point in the story, where Ben finally understands, and sees, what's going to happen to London. Unfortunately we couldn't just walk into any alleyway and start filming, instead we had to plan two weeks of organising and applying for a permit to film there. As the director this was all up to me and I really enjoyed it! I called the Bath Film Office and explained what we needed which resulted in a few emails back and forth. They were really impressed with how we had gone about our request and were given permits to film in 3 alleyways over the course of a week, just for backup. Thanks to being really organised! 

In the picture below you can see one of the 3 signs we put up to notify the public of the filming we were doing. Also you can see a high-visibility jacket I had on. This was all part of the Bath Film Office's location protocol. 

In the end, I can firmly say that I produced and edited a film that I'm proud of. Though we had to overcome many obstacles along the way, it's been well worth it. And now we have a potential award-winning short film! I have learnt so much from this production. I'm a much more capable producer now, as well as a more skilled compositor. Especially after having to frame-by-frame mask in a television into quite a few of the scenes, sometimes working with 3 different masks at a time!

Step Brothers Overdub

For this assignment we had to pick a scene from a film as a group, and then try to recreate all the audio as exact as possible.

Here is the scene we picked:


And here is our overdub:

So as well as all those who were part of the cast having to learn our lines, those on the crew also had to figure out the best way to make the most accurate recreating of all the foley sound. Such as the cutlery clattering and the phone camera's shutter going off.

Malfeasance Soundtrack

Today in class I was finally able to finish the climactic ending soundtrack for my upcoming short film 'Malfeasance'. I went for an atmospheric mood. My only problem was that the audio clip I had acquired, although being perfect in sound, was far too short. So I had to do my best to make it a good twenty seconds or so longer. I did this by repeating the first chord and then fading it back in the original clip so that there was an inaudible difference between the clips.

Close Captioning

For todays class our tutor, Tom, talked to us about accessibility for films. Especially focusing on close captions. In the class he showed us a quick and easy way to close caption a video on YouTube. As demonstrated in the screenshots.

3 Movie Soundtrack Analysis

Sweet Dreams by Emily Browning - Sucker Punch Soundtrack 

Music Copyrighting

Creative Commons - allows you to share your work with no legal obligations. Make sure it is credited, meaning you credit the person who actually created the product, image etc.


Copyright - The right given to the owner/publisher to protect their media (for example music/audio, graphics/video and software) and stop others using it without their permission.

Types of copyright:

Right to copy - royalty free, creative commons (CC)

No right to copy - Copyrighted protected

Royalty Free - is copyrighted material available to use without needing to pay royalties or license fees.

Fair Use - is using a copyrighted material for a limited purpose such as to comment, criticise or parody. These uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner. If your use qualifies as a fair use, it would not be considered an illegal infringement.

Music Licensing Companies
http://www.musicbed.com - Attractive, well designed website with a large amount of free and paid audio.

http://www.beatsuite.com - Simple, royalty free audio available. Music and sound FX.

http://www.eccorights.org - Copyright obtaining service. Based in, and caters for St. Lucia, W.I.

http://www.ppluk.com - Music licensing company

http://www.beatpick.com - Music licensing company

Copyrighted Music Stores:
iTunes

Amazon Music

Google Music