This week the exercise was centred on sound. The task was to make a video using sounds recorded separately with a Tascam and sound effects. The main point of this exercise was to explore one of the fundamental roles in film production, the sound designer.
It’s important to think in advance, during the pre-production phase, which kind of sounds are needed; for environment, emotion, concrete and transition.
I was the producer of this short film and while exploring the location, a few days before the production, I looked for those elements that would be dangerous or a problem for our filming process; the scene on the bridge was the one that gave me more thoughts. It was not easy to fill the risk assessment form (Figure 1 and 2), I admit that this short movie, because of the kind of scenes, was a bit dangerous if we didn’t pay attention on some details. On the shooting day, I ensured that everything was safe for the crew and the equipment. We are still alive and safe, for now.
I have to admit that I wasn’t so enthusiastic about this movie. Even if I like producing, I have to put the hand on the camera (as director and cinematographer) and work on the picture, but I didn’t. However, I had the opportunity to work on colour correction. One problem. Because of the location, some shots were flat and some had some parts burnt. As I said in the previous post, we are filming in REC.709 (to make it easy, less information/data) which is not the best for colour correction. I worked on this with the cinematographer in post-production but even if it is not the best it is not the main problem of this video. I think that the main problem is on continuity and narration.
Diet Coke Productions 