research on sound

Veronika and me decided that I will be the one that will take more part in the sound so I made some research on sound for our opening.

The sound is very important in a movie because is the one that along with the filming and editing transmits different feelings to the audience. We want to transmit a dramatic effect, to identify our genre which is drama,and we already know that in the first part we will use Veronika´s voice at the background saying very deep thought while the girl is walking alone. We want to do this because we think that will show that she knows she is on danger and is like she cannot do anything to change that fact just regreting it, in our opinion this will transmit her emotions and straight away will also transmit a idea of the genre to the audience. At the background we want something very sentimental and dramatic like a sad song , maybe using piano as the main instrument would be perfect because it always gives  a dramatic feeling , there are many types of dramatic songs but we cannot use a very hard deep one because that will ruin and exagerate in our opinion the scene. I found an example of a sad piano sound in youtube that I might take it as an example for the real one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09UhKyLHYsg 

This song and the voice at the background transmits the dramatic feeling .

Now I would also like to find a intensive song that will transmit tension when we show that the guy will do something bad to the girl,so along with the sound we produce tension to the audience, so I been searching for examples and I found this song 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9OEQsRQhoY 

and this is the research for the first part of the opening , for the second part we already had one sound and I am still working on it creating a more party song.

group meeting

Today me , Veronika and all the actors met to have a discussion about the production.
We wanted all of them to help us with their opinions and improvements for our idea.
We showed them what we have so far which is the second part of the opening scene filming done and some editing and sound , we made clear that we have to change the sound so I have to do many researches on that  and try to find the right one because the actual one as we already discussed with one of our colleagues is not for a going out party that will transmit the feelings of the moment that the girl is getting ready. I also told them my idea of adding titles in the second part because is the time where nothing important is happening , just showing a girl getting ready ( perfect time for imaginative titles), and most of them liked this idea , so me and Veronika will do some sample to see if it looks nice.
We have discussed about the first part which we did not start filming yet , locations , mice-en-scene , and we showed them the storyboard . All of them particularly liked our ideas and they also added some new ideas in the shots . This might mean that we will have to change some of the shots while we filming so we will maybe change a bit our second storyboard. Veronika gave a very good idea of adding a point of view of the girl and add some editing to shot to the audience that she is still on drug effects. The actor that takes part in the opening as the rapist gave us another idea of showing to the very beginning to the audience that she is on danger while she is walking , we had this idea before but not the way that he was explaining which me and Veronika liked very much.

I would like to thank Veronika for having this great idea for the meeting , it was very helpful.

research 1st part opening

I would like to do more research for our first part of the opening where at the end of the scene a unknown guy will take the girl and the scene finishes there , what we pretend to do with this is to give to the audience intrigue and tension, we also want to make the audience feel like the want to finish the movie and see what is going to happen, the feeling of up and down in the audience , that gives them a lot of tension and stops calming hem but with the intrigue still there so they keep watching the whole production. I was thinking to make some research  in some scenes of movies and look at the shots and editing to have a better idea before we start filming.
I will watch some recommendations that I found in Internet this weekend so I can take more examples of the movies.
The one that people advised me to watch is
The bone collector: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4z4Xsp-bos 
kidnapped: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KAVZ4L2ys
This is one very good recomendation, after watching the trailer I can´t wait to start watching it
The lovely bones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eorE_o8cLY 

Enjoy the weekend Hasta la vista! 

location for the first part of the opening

I would like to discuss the location for the filming for the first part of the opening. Me and Veronika were discussing the locations that would be perfect in London.

The first place that we were thinking to use in the night was Camden Town , which has many clubs and in the night is very dangerous if you go in places that you should not go. This place is also close to the place where I am staying and would be easier to go at 5 o'clock in the morning when the sun appears and there is no many people outside mostly just drunk people. Would be very good to do it in a Saturday night or Friday night so we know that we don´t have school next day. 

this is a picture to show the place. I would also take more pictures of some streets in Camden that I will see are appropriate and very scary for a teenager to go in the middle of the night.

I also did a research asking people that I know and friends of my friends to know about other dangerous places in London. 

The results were:

-Uxbridge: There are some clubs where people go to party and is not recommendable for many people to go alone. There are some dangerous people , and some other persons had a bad experience after party. It is very important to make it as real as possible and for that we actually need a place full of danger. ( We will take care of ourselves)

-Neasden:  Some of the people that I personally asked said that this place is full of danger. It is not good to go in the night alone for nobody.

Places near Neasden are not recommendable as well.

Some other people answered with no answer , just affirming that all the places in the night are dangerous if for a teenager coming out from a party without much awareness. More if you go in places that are not seem for people. 

This is how many people disappear or get hurt in a big city like London , and is also good to be aware.

I will soon upload more pictures of some locations in Camden that me and mu colleague will see that would be perfect and I will also need your help to decide which place will be the perfect one.

Have a good day everyone.

new ideas for our second part of the opening sequence

Hello there , I had discussed this idea with my colleague Veronika but we did not really discuss it very deep.

I had this idea of adding the titles while the girl is getting ready in the second part of our opening , We been asking people what they think so far and some of them said that is too long  and boring watching 20 seconds of a girl getting ready , of course they did not see the difference that we want to make from the first part to the second part because our first part filming is not finished and prepared.. But I thought that would be even nicer if we add the titles while this is happening. Is a way of introducing the audience with the real character when she is not on drugs and appreciating this time like a pause to introduce ourselves to the audience , will look very nice in the introduction and useful. I will coment it with Veronika to see for sure what she thinks.

analysis of the first part of the opening scene

I decided to do a 5 step analysis of the first part of our opening scene , so I have a better idea when we finish our filming of how to edit it to make it nicer to transmit it to the audience the feeling of a drugs and alcohol , the danger for teenager of a wild night . A young teenager coming home , with hallucinations and mentally not able to differentiate what is good and bad , in the morning where other bad people are waiting for this kind of situations to happen and take part of it. We will show this while we filming and at the end we show how the rapist comes and holds her. We know that the scene will finish when this happens and she will seem very scared. 

I made some analysis to be more prepared for the editing and when it comes to add the sound . I really want to attract the audience by making them feel what we want to transmit. 

FEEDBACK

I was not sure if the sound is the appropriate one for the scene that we already filmed. The scene shows the girl getting ready for a party, with the first scene audience is going to realise that she is going to end up bad and that she had a hard party where she passed the limits . The sound that I chose is very calm and peaceful , it has a heartbeat but is still too calm. According to the fact that me and Veronika are not sure if the sound is the perfect one we decided to show what we already done to some of our colleague to know her opinion. Her opinion was not positive , she did not like the sound that we chose . It was quite disappointed for us but we accepted her opinion. She was not agree with the peaceful song even though we explained her that is to show the different changed in the mood from the first scene , she said that as a audience and a girl that is getting ready she would not like to listen to this song and that will not attract audience as we thought it will . I accept her opinion and Veronika as well , so we will make some changes and try to make a more exciting sound.