Film Lesson 3

9th Febuary 2008

Today, we watched the videos and sound foleys created by the other groups.

Some points and notes that people were quick to pick up on was that, for colour tints, we must not over-do it. If we tint, make sure that the normal background colours are still there, but only a slight ting, e.g. keep the trees green and the sky blue.

The sound foley notes was that the soundscape should be more coplex. One good example of an office sound foley was that, there were telephone ringing, people shouting for overdue work, typing, writing, clacking high heels happening all at the same time. It gives us the impression that it was a busy workplace, and we could actually feel the atmosphere at that place. The not so good example was that, the sound happened one by one. High heels clacking, then pulling out a piece of paper, then writing, then folding the paper, then walking away again. It was too quite and singular. Ideal sound foleys are complex, with different things all happening at the same time.

If we were to do anything differently for our video production, we would
1) the footages were supposed to be the same. We used different footages. Next time, we would use the same footage, only different effects were applied.
2) make the grainy documentary/ sharp effect film more contrasted. The only difference between them was that the grainy one was shakier than the sharp one. We really should have added some grainy effects to the footage.
3) make the colour tint more contrasted. The blue and the red were only changed with the white balance and the light that hits onto the filming location. We should have changed the colour tint which we were editing.

Right now, these notes noted here and above would be useful for future references, so in the future when we are making more films, we would take care not to over-do or over-minimize any effects or colour tints. When we are making sound foleys we would also think more realisticly about how the environment would really be like and imitate it as closely as possible, like taking into account what kind of people or animals and how busy or quiet one place should be and noting them down before creating the sound foley.

IB Learner Profile: Reflective
This lesson was mainly a reflection lesson on how we did and how we could improve. I have given it some thought and took down notes on what I didn't do well and how I could improve next time. I also knew what our group's limitations were, i.e. the other sequences were well doen, and our limitations, i.e. the colour tint and the contrast between the grainy/sharp video.