Use of Music in Film.

Use of music in film

• Creates an atmosphere in the clip
• Creates mood
• Triggers emotional cues at point 
• Makes actions stand out more
• Helps narrative flow
• Hints to the emotional state of character/characters
• Establishes culture, time (motifs) and location

Terminology

• Diegetic/Non Diegetic
• Amplified sound 
• Character themes 
• Sound Effects
• Ambient sound
• Aural  Motives
• Contrapuntal Sound
• Sound bridges
• Major and Minor keys/chords
• Cacophony and discordance
• Sound Narrative
• sound scape 
• Sonic Wallpaper

Music Analysis

• Purpose
• Elements (tempo, genre, tone, volume, instrumentation)
• Meaning

Purpose

• Creates sonic wallpaper/background for montage and flashbacks to make it more believable
• Helps the narrative flow
• Gives clues about the characters (Oliver Tate)

Element

Instrumentation

• strings
• flute at the start 

Tone

• Neutral
• Floats between two
• "Thinking" music
• Romantic, Busy, Dreamy

Tempo

• Fast Brisk walking pace
• Andante

Genre

• Classical

Meaning

• Music is sincere and considered describing with comical memories
• Sequence is oliver's thought process ( subjective) 
• The music has a 'busy' quality to it.Resting into a set melody this reflects Oliver's thought process. He jumps straight from thought to thought without any stops.
• Musical has a classic timeless quality giving little indication of location or time. Which suggests timelessness in terms of film themes.

Production Meeting

Meeting started at 9:20am, 31st January 2014.

Peoples present, Myself, G, Katie and Maia.

 

In the meeting we discussed what shots we are going to be re filming and when we will be filming them. We have decided to re film scene 2 on mondays first lesson 9am - 10:30am. Instead of filming all the walking parts we have decided to cut them down and do the whole scene in 2 shots. Walking round the corner of the wall then fading into Reece being pushed over continuing with him being punched. 

On mondays last lesson we have decided to re film scene 5 and if we haven't enough time we will film scene 5 on tuesday. If we complete filming scene 5 on monday last lesson we will then film scene 6 on tuesday, which will be filmed in the refectory. We will all sit round the table and put the camera between two of us to film the other two. this will be a mid shot. 

On wednesday we will be recording the audio. we will be recording the dialogue and any sound effects that we need. 

And finally on the thursday we will start to put our sequence together and edit in using both adobe premier and adobe after effects.

PRODUCTION MEETING

Date: 30th January 2014
Time: 3:45pm
Present: Katie, Maia and Callum

• We took into account our rough cut feedback and that its hard to establish the change in schools, so we're going to add in a scene of a pan of the new school before Reece walks in and meets Lauren, Rizzo and Kieran.
• Some of the scenes didn't know out as good as we hoped so we'll go out and reshoot a couple (e.g. when Kiera appears)
• Add more sound effects to make the sequence more engaging and realistic
• Add more interesting transitions between shots
• Finish our special effect editing 

Appraising the Rough Cut.

Audio

The strengths of our audio is mainly dialogue but could still be improved and the punch sound effect as we didn't add anymore in. Next time we will make sure we use a microphone to record the audio as it wasn't clear. We will also use sounds for the special effects to make the sound more realistic. I will also add some background music to keep the sequence flowing when there is no dialogue. 

Special Effects

I have only 2 special effects which are the teleportation effect and the fireball effect. The teleportation looks realistic but could just do with a sound effect.
The fireball has a box around it which needs to be removed and i need to add a glow to it to make it look more realistic. I also need to add a sound effect to it.

 

ROUGH CUT FEEDBACK

Feedback from Will

Does it make narrative sense? 

It makes sense however some dialogue is sound is missing. Easy to follow and makes sense.

Do the special effects fit well with the sequence? How could they be improved?

Works well and looks good. Could use different smoke effects. A black box around the fireball. Could add some sort of glow.

Is the dialogue engaging?

The dialogue tells the story and doesn't feel like its there to full time. Some clips need the sound editing (you can hear others talking)

What do the sound FX, ambient sounds and music add?

The punch sound effect sounds really good and is in time. Not much sound FX in the clip yet.

Is it entertaining? 

The story is clear and entertaining. This bits where dialogue stop slightly confuses it.

What would you do to improve the sequence?

More detail to the special effects such as adding a glow to the fireball hand and removing the black box. Add new sounds in where you can "go" signal.



Feedback from Dana


Does it make narrative sense? 

Yes, the talking goes with whats happening.

Do the special effects fit well with the sequence? How could they be improved?

The disappearing effect flows very well but with the fireball you can see a square around it.

Is the dialogue engaging?

Yes, it is very clear and the dialogue used in the bully scene draws you in.

What do the sound FX, ambient sounds and music add?

The noises used in the bathroom scene work really well. It creates the environment of the place they are in.

Is it entertaining?

Yes, I thought it was really good. The bully scene was quite realistic and tense.

What would you do to improve the sequence?

Try not to have the dolly stand and cut out the directors voice.

STUDENTS V ZOMBIES ROUGH CUT

Discussing Problems with Our Project.

At the beginning of our lesson, each member of "Team $wag" wrote down a problem they thought we had within our project. 

One of the main problems that was said was that we had trouble with the angle of the camera in the way we would film a section of a shot then move the camera to carry on filming and it would look out of proportion and wouldn't flow. To resolve this we are going to re film scene 5 tomorrow and make sure the camera is where we need it to be a keep it running instead of keep stopping and starting.

Another problem we picked up on is eye contact with the camera. To resolve this we are going to use a point of view to look at when we are filming.