Week 007 - Forgot to mention:
Hours:2-3
Kalli wants to scrap the V/O narrative of the film: she thinks it might be too cheesy.
I think it may need something extra for the audience to focus on. If we didn't have a voice over - which might add something to the film without have a voice narrating, but that means the focus will be on composing something - and that falls onto me because of the four of us, I'm the one more musically enclined: I like playing with audio programs, I've mixed songs together for fun (Traktor DJ is cool!) and I'm the only one who plays an instrument (piano and a bit of violin a long time ago) and while I've dabbled in composing and have done some with a friend (who's now taping or working on her demo) I'm not that confident in my ability to produce some music.
... I know we're meant to push our boundaries, and I am happy to give it a go - but at the same time, I would feel better that the music wouldn't be the sole focus and ambience for the film.
(there are also recording problems: if I do compose something good and the likely hood of the music being in piano, how are we gonna achieve it being not sounding echoy? There was talk of samples - transfering the music from piano to bits and bytes, but it never sounds organic enough and always sounds bleep-bleep to my ears, though I suppose you could make your own samples...)
There was the suggestion that we just use sound effects, etc - and that's fine, but having watched that DVD of Unbreakable and seeing how much the film does fall short without some kind of backing track, I'm afraid that we would fall in the same category, and we're amateurs.
Unless: we use the sound effects as a kind of music...?
I did watch American Beauty over the weekend (I love watching movies as homework! :p) and that had a voice over - which worked well and wasn't too cheesy in my opinion.
We just have to find a voice and I'm confident that my friend can achieve it.
Maybe I should just email her to record something when she can and just bring it in.
Though Kalli seems very adamant against it.
(sigh)
I guess we're having a bit of creative-juice hitchs.
I'm sure something will work out though.
Kalli wants to scrap the V/O narrative of the film: she thinks it might be too cheesy.
I think it may need something extra for the audience to focus on. If we didn't have a voice over - which might add something to the film without have a voice narrating, but that means the focus will be on composing something - and that falls onto me because of the four of us, I'm the one more musically enclined: I like playing with audio programs, I've mixed songs together for fun (Traktor DJ is cool!) and I'm the only one who plays an instrument (piano and a bit of violin a long time ago) and while I've dabbled in composing and have done some with a friend (who's now taping or working on her demo) I'm not that confident in my ability to produce some music.
... I know we're meant to push our boundaries, and I am happy to give it a go - but at the same time, I would feel better that the music wouldn't be the sole focus and ambience for the film.
(there are also recording problems: if I do compose something good and the likely hood of the music being in piano, how are we gonna achieve it being not sounding echoy? There was talk of samples - transfering the music from piano to bits and bytes, but it never sounds organic enough and always sounds bleep-bleep to my ears, though I suppose you could make your own samples...)
There was the suggestion that we just use sound effects, etc - and that's fine, but having watched that DVD of Unbreakable and seeing how much the film does fall short without some kind of backing track, I'm afraid that we would fall in the same category, and we're amateurs.
Unless: we use the sound effects as a kind of music...?
I did watch American Beauty over the weekend (I love watching movies as homework! :p) and that had a voice over - which worked well and wasn't too cheesy in my opinion.
We just have to find a voice and I'm confident that my friend can achieve it.
Maybe I should just email her to record something when she can and just bring it in.
Though Kalli seems very adamant against it.
(sigh)
I guess we're having a bit of creative-juice hitchs.
I'm sure something will work out though.
posted by J at 12:34 PM
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