Sound Project

 I learned the importance of sounds in films. When recording movies and shows filming is focused on the characters dialogue and all other sounds are not included, although a film cannot be left that way; the sounds must be included to make a film complete and how those sounds are applied greatly affects the final product. Sounds can also be made by foley artists which use objects to create special sounds for films, such as rain fall imitated by dry rice falling on a pan or alien chatter created by crunched celery.  

  

I was assigned a sound project. This project was to tell a story that could realistically occur within 1-2 minutes through sound with a partner. No video was aloud in our project, we had several database options to download sound effects from such as “https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/youtube/Links to an external site.” which I got most of my sounds from. Additionally, we had to create 4 foley sounds to use in our film. In total we may only use up to 7 words in this project, there should be around 5-8 sounds playing at one time. Finally, we had to submit our project, video footage of the 4 foley sounds we created, and an image of our editing timeline to show the layers of sound.  

Project editing Timeline:  
 

  

To complete this project, me and my partner brainstormed our story for the film and then we created a list of scenes, and the sounds required for each of them. We then created folders for each scene and put sounds we downloaded into the proper folder. Then we created a new project on Adobe Premiere Pro. Once we had gotten all the sounds for a scene, we utilized our outline to put our sounds in the project and created the scene. After we completed our project, we checked over it a few times made a few revisions and finally submitted it. I believe we incorporated many sounds in the project that created a functional story although I think that in the future, we can work on making a more interesting and creative story because I feel like the film became bland towards the end. 

Here is a link to the project: MontanariMoro_soundscape_per7 

One Word Film project

 The One Word Film project was to create a film with a partner to express a given word. The film had to be a scene that could occur in real life between 60-90 seconds. It could include instrumental audio elements (without lyrics) and sound effects. Absolutely no dialogue was permitted. Each member had to edit separately on adobe premiere or iMovie and submit their project.

    To complete this project, my partner and I began by brainstorming a realistic storyline displaying our assigned word “Hateful”. We worked together and ultimately came up with an idea that we put into a brainstorming sheet. In brainstorming we put some major composition/angles/shots into the boxes with scene descriptions to use as a guide for the film. 

    We then created a storyboard for the brainstorming sheet which only included the shots/angles/composition although the storyboard includes simple drawings to help us visualize our story and therefore replicate in filming.

  

    We utilized Adobe premiere as our editing resource which allowed us to create a smooth and clear film with plenty of sound elements/effects.

    In this project the clips were put together smoothly, and the audio accurately created a better understanding of the film. In the next project I would like to use my time more wisely in order to have more filming time and options for the final project as well as to avoid any problems in editing like I faced. I would also like to learn how to do more advanced techniques and editing of clips/audio.

    A link to my project is attached. - OWF_Montanari 

My first preliminary project

 The camera shots quiz assessment was to choose 1-2 inanimate objects to create a visual story consisting of 15 shots. These shots had to include an establishing shot, long shot, two medium shots, two closeup shots, extreme closeup shot, point of view shot, high angle, and low angle. 

I approached the development of my final product by planning out my story in a shot list where I wrote the shot types and a description of the content in that shot. My story consisted of a white eraser on a countertop far away and separated from a pink eraser, the story was the white erasers journey to reach the pink eraser. Since the story does not have dialogue, I used certain shots to portray the emotions of the story. 

I think I did a good job of making a compelling and interesting story line although I could have made my story shorter and clearer. I could also work on taking shots more accurately to their specifications.