[Dare] Soundtrack

In my new soundtrack, I've kept the original first few shots and audio as they were because they were good, the other parts i either edited myself or downloaded from Freeplaymusic.com.

George scream unedited and edited by whiteisblack

i took a clip of my sister (who plays the girl who dies in my opening) screaming, then edited so it sounded more mysterious in 'Sony Vegas sound forge audio studio'

i also added my own drum beats behind another song, it acts like a heart beat i think, i had originally intend to do the whole soundtrack on the drums but i don't think that fits the genre at all so i thought it sounded effective behind a song from Freeplaymusic that didn't have any beat to it.

the highlighted part is the drum beats behind the song, on the purple layer (track 6) just after he highlighted section is the narrative voice over audio, i split it up and spaced it out so there were slight pauses between because it was spoken quickly and didn't have an suspense to it

also before the highlited bit on the green layer (track 5) there is some audio i record using my sisters guitar and amp, i put the guitar to close to the amp so it made a weird noise then recorded it and split it so that it sounded like it was stuttering which gives it an air of mystery that fits the genre, it also scares the audience.

Miss Sutton said it gave her goose bumps, and a friend of mine said he wouldn't go see this film because he doesn't like things that are scary or jumpy. i think that's mostly down to the soundtrack as its a key part of my opening and any film opening as it sets the mood.

Idea changes...again...again.

im changing my idea again, this time completely, with a completely new genre, i decided to do a test idea first, and compare with my first idea and see which opening people liked better, my newest idea is the one that people like more and i think i can do a lot more with it as my first idea stopped making sense.

editing and videoing i can do easily, but i get a lot of ideas at once and they dont really make sense, so in the time i've got left im researching my new opening from the beginning.



the first two minutes of confessions of a shopaholic are pretty simple, the shots are long and drawn out and slightly slowed down, probably because its a memory,

the feedback i'd gotten on my new idea with the editing i'd done so far was that it hadn't really got a plot, i know in my head whats going on but i can't convey it to the audience, so im going to use a voice over.

Institutions and audiences

We started a new topic for the exam "Institutions and Audiences" in the first lesson we did a class survey and came to the following conclusions

1. Almost all the films we watch are american made

This is because they are bigger companies in comparison to our British companies and they have much bigger budgets with there films, this is also why British film companies are partnered up with american ones when making a film normally for publicity.

2. we watch films in lots of different ways.

compared to how people used to watch films we have a very broad choice

• TV
• Cinema
• Download
• Youtube (Or other video sharing sites)
• DVD
• Skybox office (or other TV film channels)

3. More genres, hybrid genres.

this is because people dont want to watch the same kind of film over and over so mixing genres and having more genres allows people to keep enjoying films

4. Audience is in control of how, when and where they watch there films.

We did the survey by each filling in a grid that had the headings Film, Certificate, genre, where watched, pro's, Con's and British or American? after we had all filled our grid's in we fedback and put it on the board to so we could see the four points above.

on my own grid i did 8 films heres some examples:

Tranformers 2

• Certificate: 12
• Genre: Action/Fantasy
• Where watched: Cinema
• Pro's: Big screen, good audio
• Con's: No control, disturbances,
• American made

Dark Knight

• certificate: 15
• Genre: Action/Sci-fi
• Where watched: Cinema
• Pro's: Big Screen, Good audio
• Con's: No control, disturbances
• American made

Kung Fu Panda

• Certificate: PG
• Genre: Comady/Animation
• Where watched: DVD
• Pro's: Control, speical features
• Con's: Waiting for release, costs money, may break
• American made

Video openings

I've been watching some video openings for ideas for my own video i've watched some on DVD's at home but these are some of the ones i found on youtube.



This is the opening to the pink panther, i won't be doing something like this because its all animation but its still good because of the way they show the titles so they mix in with animated action, i could do something like this in my own video!



This is the opening to James bond - Golden eye. its a typical Bond opening with all the figures as silhouettes, guns and explosions, again not somthing i could do easily, it is possible with my own softwear to do somthing like this but it would take a long time, you have to do masking frame by frame and it takes forever to do just a minutes worth of clip. I can do the clips overlapping and fading through though!



not a practical opening, it goes on for a very long time before the titles start, but it fits the films genre (Comady/musical) and hooks the audiance in straight away, introduce the main charater and does it all through song! again, this isn't a very good for my video because its long and i can't do musical things

i watched Titanic aswell, but the embedding was dissabled so heres the URL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPQYUVvh2xc

This opening is really simple, its just a montage of old style videos of titanic setting sail for the final time. the opening doesn't need to be anymore then that because its powerful enough as it is, Titanic is the most famous ship wreck in the world so most people know what is going to happen. i could do a simple opening, but it would have to be something people could recognize easily, i could do a shelf of Sherlock Holmes books, or something else most people know about