Foley Sounds

          We recorded all of our audio last Saturday for the walkie talkie, but we recorded it normally.  We planned on editing it in post, and I'm researching how a walkie talkie sounds like with it breaking up.  I went on YouTube and looked up examples but wasn't really able to find anything that I loved.  Instead, I decided to just look up a static sound effect and found this one.  I really liked this one and I knew that I would be able to use it for what I wanted to do.  I then cut up the original audio, creating spaces in-between certain words (like I did in the script that I made).  I didn't love how it came out, so I made the static pauses a little longer between each, staggering the time between each space.  I liked it a lot better, but I didn't think there was enough static so I decided to put the TV static clip underneath the entire sound clip.

         
          When I showed Klaus what I did, he recommended to put the sound of a radio tuning before each time the radio audio comes out.  It took us a little while to find what we were looking for, but I was able to find the perfect sound effect on YouTube.  The audio turned out really well, and I was able to get it to sound like we filmed it with the scenes that we put them in.  Now I just need to color correct the film and then we'll be done.

Editing...

          Klaus and I have now switched off of on what we are doing for our short film.  I was given the entire project timeline of our short film and I was given specifics on what to edit.  My job was color correcting, fixing audio, and picking out music for certain scenes.  Klaus edited almost the entire thing, so he told me to pick out dramatic instrumental music.  I found a really good website where I was able to find the exact music that I wanted.  Fesliyan Studios was the perfect website for all of my music requirements.  In total, I got three songs for our short film, two for each flashback, and one for the ending long take scene.  I had a lot of choices for our long take, but the one I ended up going with was called Paranoia which I think is the perfect name for the music.  This is our timeline:

         We labeled each scene with a different color pertaining on what scene it was.  Red was flashbacks, blue was present, and green was all of our audio.  I'm super happy with the music that I picked out and I can't wait to start working on our foley sounds tomorrow.

Postcard Advertisement BACK

          After finishing up the front of my postcard, I knew I would have some difficulty because I had no idea of how I wanted to go about it.  There were a few photos that I was considering but I didn't know which one I wanted to choose for sure.

       
          When I was starting on the back, Klaus and I decided to go with the bottom picture.  I played around with splitting it, but I did not love it so I scrapped that idea.  I then started to play with the opacity of the picture, hoping to include text all over the picture and this is what it looked like.

          Klaus and I both felt like it was missing something, so we thought of the idea of putting everything in the middle with all the text being in black.  We left a blank square on the bottom for when we create the QR code for our website.  This is our final postcard back and I really like how it came out.  I think both the back and the front are cohesive and go very well together.

Logos:
geekgirlauthority.com
https://iconmonstr.com/instagram-11-png/
themuseum.ca
slashfilm.com

Postcard Advertisement Pt 2

           Now that I have edited pictures to choose from for my postcard advertisement, I wanted to research them a little bit further.  I know that I want our postcard to be attractive and bring in an audience to watch our film.  As I was looking up different postcards, I found two that I really liked these two and wanted to take inspiration from them.

          I really liked the inclusion the QR code in the first one and I definitely want to include it in my postcard.  I also want to include the different logos like the bottom one because I really think it gives the postcard the authenticity that I want it to have.  So far, I have made the front of the postcard.  I really love how it came out and was able to find the exact font that I pictured.  The font that I downloaded was from Dafont and I love how scribbled it is.

          I think this picture perfectly represents our film.  I included both Klaus' and I's names on the front because from the examples that I found, they made sure to include the directors names on the front.  I'm working on the back of the postcard but having a little bit more of trouble with it.

Postcard Advertisement

          Since Klaus and I have finished filming most of our short film, we now want to focus on another part of the project, the postcard advertisement.  Throughout filming on Saturday, I took pictures of us filming to hopefully use for this aspect of the project.  I have chosen Adobe Lightroom as my photo editor because I have previous experience of using it for my AS Level portfolio project from last year.  I have edited 21 photos that I thought were the best that I took from Saturday.  Here they are:

       
          For all of these photos I upped the contrast and brought down the exposure, wanting to enhance the colors of the scenery.  Since this short film is based on the main character being constantly alone in nature, so I wanted to exaggerate the colors in the photos that I took.  I also took both character pictures and behind the scenes pictures, having a choice to use either on my post card, depending on what photos I like the best.  I'm hoping the behind the scenes pictures will help bring in an audience to see our short film.

Cast & Crew

          Today is filming day!!  I can't wait to start filming, but before we do that I want to introduce our cast & crew.  Klaus and I are going to be the main directors for our short film (him mostly filming while I take pictures for our website) but we wanted to have another person for extra ideas and extra help.  In our short film we have three actors, only one of them being the main character.  We are super happy with everyone who is helping us with our film and can't to finish filming tonight so we can start editing ASAP.  Here is our cast:

This is our main character Alex (played by Julian Bonilla)

This is the couple (played by Tati Del Carpio and Ricky Kidder)

And this is our extra crew member Dean!

         We're super happy that we got some great help to film our short film.  On Wednesday of next week, we'll be filming our last and final scene at school in the TV studio.  We're filming the bulk of our short film today (also in case of any reshoots that we might have to do and whatnot).  Klaus and I made sure to be prepared for today and we're both ready to start turning all of this preparation into our film!

Friday 3/1/19

          Today in class we had group meetings, talking with four people in our class about each of our projects and each of their projects.  While discussing my project, we talked about techniques that I could include in my short film to help imply the loneliness that is Klaus and I's main focus throughout our short film.  I also talked about how Klaus and I are filming tomorrow and different things that we're getting done today so that we are prepared for filming tomorrow.  Klaus and I have created two different lists of props and equipment that we need to make sure we are getting for our shoot to be successful tomorrow.  This is what we have:

          Klaus and I are super excited to get to work and start filming tomorrow.  After weeks of preparation, I feel really good about all that we are getting done tomorrow especially after talking to other people in my class about our idea (that they loved!).  I can't wait to see how it all turns out.