Possible Interviewees for Social Action Doc

Possible Interviewees:

Donald Donaldson- resident of Tonbridge who is happy with the peaceful living conditions

William Ramsey- resident of Tonbridge who disagrees with the Council's decision who wants to live in peace.

Jane Avis- Labour Councillor for older people in South Norwood, who thinks that this is a good idea, as 'you can't favour a certain group of people over another'. 

I do agree with this, as homeless people do need a roof over their heads because it would be unethical to keep them living in B&B's, but it could also affect the living conditions of the current tenants.

The retirement home is for PRIVATE RESIDENTS ONLY, so entrance into the home to interview the tenants could be difficult, but not impossible.

CONTACT:

Jane Avis, see what she has to say about this desicion.

Current tenants, hear their views on the subject. 

Get both views in full detail so that the documentary doesn't become biased.

Soundtrack Contents Page

SOUNDTRACK PRODUCTION CONTENTS PAGE

TASK 1. MOVING IMAGE SOUNDTRACK QUIZ

TASK 2. MOVING IMAGE SOUNDTRACK REPORT

TASK 3. FACTUAL TELEVISION ANALYSIS

TASK 8a V1: THE WORLD'S END PROPOSAL

TASK 8a V2: DJANGO UNCHAINED PROPOSAL

TASK 8b V1: WORLD'S END ACTION PLAN

TASK 8b V2: DJANGO UNCHAINED ACTION PLAN

TASK 8c: RECORDING (Done in workshop)

TASK 8d: EDITING (Done in workshop)

TASK 8e: SELF EVALUATION

Narrative Drama 'The Ambush' Evaluation

Tyree

'The Ambush'

Narrative Drama Evaluation

My role: Writer and performer

We screened our short action film, 'The Ambush' to the rest of the class, it received a mixed reception. The action scene and its editing was praised, whilst the lack of story, character development and dialogue were mentioned as weaknesses.

The film's setting was said to have been appropriately chosen for the genre of the film, as a woodland area is perfect for an execution (and the drama itself). The editing had a lot of quickly cut footage to recreate the hectic and fast paced tone of an actual action film. The overly dramatic music was also hailed as appropriate and added to the film's comedic and melodramatic tone. The use of the camera was also said to have been good, with the camera being hidden within the trees to make it seem that Jazz and Josue's characters' were being spied on by the men involved in the ambush.

The fast cut editing technique mimics many action films that use this, we were looking and researching films such as 'Machete' and 'The Expendables' as influence, I myself see the final shootout to be something along the lines of the shootout from the Western film, 'The Magnificent Seven', to further demonstrate the 'contemporary Western' influences of the film.

Regarding the criticisms about not enough story and dialogue, I can explain; I wrote a full 5 page story explaining why Jazz's character (Jack) was captured by Josue (Kit), and it ran through about 3 pages before I needed to write in the action. But when we were in the middle of filming, we realised that there was too much talking, and that it took too long, and that the action was the most important and crucial part. So, we re- evaluated it and decided to cut the dialogue, and in a way, leave it to the audience's imaginations. Besides, film is a visual art and you don't necessarily need words to explain what is going on, although, I do see why the class could have been confused as to what was happening.

Overall, though, I think we made a good, fun action film that it up to a professional standard, I do agree that there should have been a build up to the story, but you have to make compromises, creatively in order for things to work.

Bill Task 6- Narrative Genre Scenario Evaluation

Tyree Webster

Task 6
Narrative Genre Scenario Evaluation IMPROVED

Our narrative scenario was a small 'thriller- comedy' about 2 guys who steal a small drug lords' "drugs" (they were actually Skittles), he chases them down and all three get involved in a 'Mexican standoff'.

The small script that I wrote evolved into a loose parody of 'Breaking Bad', but not that much. We thought that it would be funny to create something that was attempting to be serious, but if we added in scenes that had 'wouldn't it be funny if...' scenarios and it became more like a Mel Brooks comedy. The scene we shot towards the end isn't funny because the 3 leads are making guns with their hands but because that they look as if they're going to do serious damage, which they all end up dead at the end.

Out of all of our genre scenarios we've done, this is the one that had most of the planning behind it. We decided on making a thriller very early and attempted to make it serious in tone during the writing stages, but decided that we'll make it a comedy- thriller hybrid that takes itself as seriously as possible.

When we filmed the actual video itself, we ran through very little trouble during production, it was a fairly simple shoot. We didn't run into many problems, in fact, we hardly ran into any. If there was perhaps one small problem we had though, is that on our first day of filming we were in one room where we filmed a shot that had to be specifically filmed there, so on our second day, we realised that we weren't going to be in that same room so we needed to rework our shooting and go against the script because we didn't (and couldn't) distract the other class. But, other than that very minor problem (which was easily fixed) we managed to shoot the scenario in a very short amount of time and it went very well.

The film is told in a non- linear way (which means that although the film has one clear narrative, there are points during the film that will go back to either bring up backstory or to set up the film). For our film, the ending is shown first (which can be considered quite unconventional for a film, but is used quite a lot), and then we flashback to the main story, telling the audience how we got to the Mexican standoff. This is also a film making technique called a 'cold open', and has been used in film's such as 'Pulp Fiction'.

I would compare our film to 'Pulp Fiction', they are both crime films but also have comedic scenes, too, and also shares some of the same themes, which helps with the narrative.

Soundtrack Production Self Assessment

Tyree

Soundtrack Production Self Assessment

'Django Unchained' & 'The World's End'

I think I did very well with my two soundtrack productions, but I could improve on them as there were a few mistakes that I didn't intend to make.

With the 'Django Unchained' clip, some of the dialogue didn't look as if it fit what the actors were saying, this is because when I was copying an extract from Quentin Tarantino's script, the written dialogue was different compared to that of the words spoken in the final film, of which I am more familiar. In the peer- assessment that was for my work, one person wrote that the character's voices (pitch, not volume) were too low, I knew this when it was played in class, but it wasn't my fault, it was a problem with the speakers, if played again on a computer of something, the pitch of the voices would be absolutely fine. Despite these sound and script problems, the feedback I was given said that the lip sync worked really well, I got this for both of my soundtrack productions.

A genuine mistake of mine (that I didn't even know about) was in my clip for 'The World's End', in this scene, Gary King is trying to make small talk with a teen in a pub toilets after being talked down to by his friends. He then gets into a fight with the teen. But, before the fight, the teen activates a hand dryer to block out the sound of the fight to pub patrons. In the actual film, the noise of the hand dryer is quite loud, and is played over the fight (accompanied by the films' score, of course), I tried to replicate this without the music, so that it felt more 'real'. I thought that I made sure that the volume levels were how I wanted them, but when it was screened, the hand dryer was way too quiet and I was very disappointed with how it turned out, and it is something that I intend to improve on in the future, as well as add in more sound effects when Gary is fighting.

All of the feedback I was given from peer assessment said that the recording was clear and synched to the visuals really well, so at least I know that I did well at the editing.

I think that for both of my soundtrack productions, I recreated the atmosphere and tone properly. I had to include my one sounds and original spin on things, but not let it get too over the top at the same time (in 'The World's End' clip, anyway).

Overall, I think the two clips, and the accompanying sound work well, but I have a few improvements and adjustments that I still need to make.

Social Action Documentary Report

Tyree Webster

Task 5
Researching your Issue in Detail

My potential documentary idea is based around the Council’s decision to move homeless families into the Tonbridge House retirement block on Penge Road in South Norwood. There is currently one out of Tonbridge’s 39 flats that is empty, which means that quite a lot of the current residents may have to move to free up space and make way for new residents. This will create friction between the older residents and the Council, and quite possibly the newer residents, but I’ll speak more of that later. This issue and decision can be seen as a good move as it helps with homelessness in the area, but it doesn’t help the fact that most of the residents (who are elderly and disabled) are going to be forced to move out and relocate to a new home, the Council are also giving each resident who moves £4,000 in resettlement costs.

Despite this decision by the Council, I think that this will definitely have some social factors on the area as well as Economical factors. This will create mass friction between the elderly residents of Tonbridge House, the new residents and perhaps, the Council, itself. The Council seem to think that they’re doing an honourable thing by helping those who are less fortunate, they’re also betraying those who have worked very hard in their lives for 40 years and want to live the remainder of their lives in peace and quiet. But, in all fairness, homeless people deserve to live in a warm home, too. It doesn’t matter if it is their fault that they’re homeless, it’s just a matter of ethics and basic human rights. Now, I know I sound like I’m 50/50 on this, but it’s only because I am. I can’t decide on whether I’m for or against the Council’s decision.

This could, and most likely will affect every single current living resident personally. They all have their personal belongings in their individual homes and a lot of them have lived there for over 18 years, and to potentially remove them from a place that is safe and familiar to them is just really wrong, you wouldn’t move a wild animal from its natural habitat, would you? All I'm saying is that these people have dedicated their lives to working and living in the UK, and going by the systems' rules, and this is the retirement they get? It seems that the Council need to sort out their priorities, because they may be helping the many homeless people, but they're creating more problems for the other people they're supposed to be helping at the same time.

Everybody else in the community probably feel the same way as they don't want the area to be affected negatively, even if it is helping people. Wider communities are very important as each and every single person have and/or share similar or opposing views on specific subject matters, be it bad or good. So when it comes to things like this when new people are being moved in a community without the community itself agreeing on it, it would cause some sort of debate amongst the people. It's not like the Council will listen to pleads, though, as at the end of the day if they do choose to move the people in, they'll still most likely get their £242, 000, regardless of what the current residents situation is. It's important that the Council listen to the people they're trying to help, as it would show that they're more competent than we all take them as and they'll actually help the two parties.

Researching the Issue Notes

Tyree Webster

Task 5

Researching the Issue in Detail

Council considering 11 retirement blocks to move homeless families in.
Council also want to free up space, there is 1 free flat out of 39 flats.

Residents occupied already don't have to move out if they don't want to.

It is unknown how much this will cost the Council.

Council are allowing this to happen because they believe this decision will in fact help people.
This will not cost the residents who want to move out any money.
The Council will give residents £4,000 in resettlement costs, if they choose to live somewhere else.
76% of the people disagree on the decision made by the Council.
The Council will help anyone who choose to move out.
Approximately 414 people in the area are homeless families.

Source: http://www.virtualnorwood.com/forum/

This forum features several online campaigns that deal with social and local issues in South Norwood. There are several conversations about this subject that date back to October 2012.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS

1. How many new people are being moved in?

2. How many people are to be moved out?

3. How much will this cost the Council?

4. Why is this happening?

5. Will this cost the Residents any money?

6. Are the Council paying for their living conditions?

7. This has already happened in 3 other places, why do you think that the Council have made decisions like this?

8. Has this affected you in anyway possible?

9. Is there anything you can do to try to stop this?

10. Although you may not be all too happy about this situation, are you happy/glad that the Council are solving the problem of homelessness in the Community?

Vox Pop Interview Task 4

Tyree Webster

Task 4
Researching your Issue- Sound bites
IMPROVED

As part of our research for interview styles and techniques, our class took part in a 'speed dating' style box pop where we ask several members of the class 3 questions related to our documentary idea. We had to use 'provocative' questions in order to catch the interviewees attention. My documentary idea is (potentially) going to be about the Council moving homeless people into a tower block, much to the annoyance of the people who live there already, so I started my questionnaire with 'should homeless people be shot?', in which I got some very interesting answers.

Many of the people I talked to shared my views (a little bit), they all agreed that the Council are 'evil', or tend to 'get things wrong', but do try to resolve things.

The most interesting, humorous and somewhat truthful answers I got were from Barney, when I asked him if homeless people should be shot, he said 'yes', he continued on by saying that 'they don't offer anything or contribute anything to the community, so if anything, they have absolutely no reason to be there.' At first I thought that this sounded quite harsh, and more extreme than any of the other answers I was given, but I actually tend to agree. As awful as it sounds, this answer does have some truth behind it, homeless people don't contribute to society in any way, whereas these elderly people have spent their entire lives working to have a well earned rest, and now they can't even have that without the Council treating another group of people a lot better, without thinking about the elderly. But I digress.

A lot of the other answers that I gathered were all very similar in responses, and also very different. When I asked whether homeless people should be shot, I got a lot of shocked responses and laughs from them, but they all tried their best to answer anyway. 

When I asked whether they though that the Council were evil, I received a lot of mixed answers, some thought that they were evil and only thought about themselves and obtaining the most amount of money for themselves whilst seemingly forgetting about the people they're supposed to be helping, and one person seemed to think that it depends on which Council because according to her, 'her Council is good', so I suppose it depends on which area of the pond you live at. I live in a horrible place, so I guess it makes a lot of sense that our Council should be, too. But again, I digress. I know what the Council are just looking out for the people, so this is why I have mixed emotions about this.

Finally, when I asked the question; 'how would you feel if you were kicked out of your home (by the Council)', and, quite obviously, I got the same answer from everybody I asked, they would be very angry and upset or 'p***** off' as some of them used. They all said that they have the rights to live there and it shouldn't be in the Council's best interest or the Council's decision to get them to move. People should move out of their homes whenever they feel it's appropriate (except if they don't want to, of course)

I think that my line of questioning could have been more 'dramatic' to get some more diverse answers, this is because different people react to dramatic news/questions differently and this allows people to answer with whatever comes to their minds at that time, as a form of shock, for example; 'do you think the elderly see the Council and homeless people as vampires?', obviously, this is a very exaggerated and ridiculous example, but it would let the interviewee come up with an answer right on the spot.

As you can see, I received a mixed and eclectic batch of responses from my classmates, if this is the case for my actual documentary,then it would make for some very interesting footage.

South Norwood Documentary Ideas

Tyree Webster

Social Action Documentary Task 1
Initial Research

SOUTH NORWOOD

POLICE STATION SOLD TO SAVE $$$ AND TURNED INTO A BLOCK OF FLATS
(South Norwood has a high crime rate and the Council thought that it would be a great idea to sell South Norwood's only police station and relocate it to Addiscombe)

This will negatively affect:

• Elderly
• Local shopkeepers
• Families
• Police Officers.

This is because the old folks might find it distressting to find somebody else to rely on when they need help. Local shopkeepers could get robbed at gunpoint with no help. Families could be put into immediate danger with out any help. Finally, local Police Officers will be out of a job and will be unable to save the community.

This will be good for:

• Criminals, as they would be able to get away with murder and stealing

POTENTIAL INTERVIEWS: Police Officers, the public, the old people- we can get their personal views on the matter and how they think it will affect the Town and local authorities

6 MONTH ROADWORKS CAUSING HEAVY DELAYS 
(Happens frequently, and this started in February. The Council thought that it would be a good idea to replace the Victorian water mains underground, this job was supposed to take 6 months from February but has somehow managed to take nearly the entire year)

• School children
• Those who need to go to work
• Emergency services

These three will be affected negatively because the school children and those who need to go to work will most likely be late everyday or will have to travel in a different direction. Also, Emergency service vehicles will also take longer to get to their destinations.

POTENTIAL INTERVIEWS: The public and whoever thought of this, presumably the Croydon Council.

THORNTON HEATH

CRIME RATE IS VERY HIGH
 (There are a lot of drug dealers in Thornton Heath and many underground meth labs, there are also many stabbings)

This negatively affects:

• The general public
• Young children
• Old people
• Police Officers

This is good for:

Criminals, as they wouldn't care either way.

POTENTIAL INTERVIEWS- we could interview the public and obtain their personal views on the drug problems and other crimes and what they think the Police should do about it.

Task 3 Interview Styles

Tyree Webster

Task 3

Analysing Interview Techniques

Jamie Edwards and Bruce Willis- Promotional Interview

With this interview, I am specifically focusing on Jamie Edwards talking to Bruce Willis. The interview centers around the promotion of the action/comedy movie 'Red 2'. The interview is very quiet and has the potential to be a good interview with some good and interesting questions by Jamie Edwards, who seems very enthusiastic to talk to a Hollywood actor like Bruce Willis, face- to- face. But, Bruce seems less than happy to promote his movie and looks like he is going to fall asleep. He even mentions that if he had the chance, he would drive away from the building as he doesn't pay attention to the questions very well. His body language is very slouched and very lazy, he looks like he is ready to leave whenever the interview is over. When Jamie asks Bruce his questions, Bruce just replies with short answers like 'yeah', 'no' or 'no, that was just a line in the movie'. Jamie attempts to make jokes to bounce off of Bruce, but Bruce isn't having any of it and this just makes the interview that much more uncomfortable. The purpose of this interview is to promote a film, and to have a friendly discussion about the film. But, obviously, Bruce can't do that and has to mumble his way through things and create an awkward mood for the interview. However, the uncomfortable tone of the interview could also be blamed on interviewer Jamie Edwards, and his lack of professionalism.

Radio Interview- Howard Stern and Rob Zombie- Promotional Interview
In this interview, which is done on the radio, shock comic Howard Stern is talking to Rob Zombie, a musician/film director about Zombie's 2007 remake of 'Halloween'. In usual Howard Stern fashion, he makes crude jokes about various things that are in the movie; like Rob Zombie's wife who being a stripper in the movie and the multiple teen sex scenes. Howard is, like Jamie, very enthusiastic about the movie, and asks very good questions about the movie's production with questions like 'how different is this compared to the original?' and smaller questions like 'how come Michael Myers doesn't die?'. The two seem to enjoy talking to each other and have a blast talking about the movie and crack jokes. Later in the interview, Howard asks about Rob's previous jobs before he was famous, most specifically his job on 'Pee Wee's Playhouse.' Unlike Jamie and Bruce's interview, Howard and Rob act as if they're friends, which adds to the rapport of the two, and makes for a very good and entertaining interview. Like the interview above, the purpose of this interview is to promote something, but often drips away into friendly conversation about Rob Zombie's early life and career, this only adds to the rapport of Howard Stern and Rob Zombie, also, Howard's professionalism also adds to the interview's success.

Matt Lauer and Tony Romando and Jack Thompson- Hard News Interview
An interview from 2004, on a news programme, an editor of a games magazine, Tony Romando is talking about the then upcoming release of 'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'. The interview isn't aggressive, per se, but the two do obviously have very opposing views to each other. Tony thinks that the 'Grand Theft Auto' games are just fun entertainment, mixing action/crime and comedy, as the game is essentially a satirical look at crime and American culture. He talks about that the game is for mature adults and not intended for children and if the childrens' parents aren't looking out for what their kids are buying then they're not doing their job. Thompson thinks something different entirely, as he thinks that the game made by Rockstar Games are 'murder simulators' and that the company are training people's children to be killers, but also goes as far to say that murder in real life is inspired by movies and music. The interviewer, Matt seems to agree mostly with Tony Romando, but mentions that Jack makes some good points, too. Jack makes himself out to be a complete moron and continuously tries to interrupt Tony and Matt to get his idiotic views seem more important. The interview is a good interview, but evolves into a small and heated debate, at least from one side of things (Jack Thompson). The purpose of this interview was to have an adult discussion about the game and try to stop the false accusations that the game makes the children who play it murderous thugs, similar to the game's main character.

Quentin Tarantino vs. Krishnan Guru- Murthy Interview

Quentin Tarantino Channel 4 Interview

At the beginning of the interview, Tarantino and Krishnan are very friendly with each other, with Krishnan congratulating Tarantino on the success and positive reaction of 'Django Unchained'. Krishnan asks if he is disappointed with the negative publicity about the theme of slavery being turned into a Western, but Tarantino says that he 'couldn't be happier.'

Krishnan then talks about certain audiences don't like his work and aren't very fond of 'Django' due to its themes, to which Tarantino becomes slightly upset and replies with 'you're wrong'.

Finally, Krishnan asks why does Tarantino enjoy making violent movies and asks 'do you think that violence in film has any impact on violence in real- life?', this angers Tarantino greatly, who refuses to answer the question and 'shuts his butt down', he says that if people want to know what he thinks of that subject, then they can Google 20 years of what h had to say. Krishnan tries to calm him down by trying to ask more questions about the success and production of the film, but sometimes returns to the matter, much to Tarantino's dismay.

The World's End Final Soundtrack

Social Action Documentary Task 2

Tyree Webster

Social Action Documentary Task 2
Analysing the Content and Purposes of Other Documentaries

'Tootgarook'

The first of three social action documentaries that I watched, this 8 minute documentary follows a group of Australian activists who want to save a Victorian Wetland that is a home to 129 species of bird. The documentary is an 'Observational' documentary, this is because the documentary film- maker (who is neither seen or heard) is watching over the events take place and what the activists are doing, but isn't necessarily taking part in the narrative, which switches from the activists cleaning up at the swamp and staging meetings to discuss the overall problem. The film uses a few cinematic shots of birds and wildlife, as if it was from a David Attenborough documentary, so it has a bit of a poetic technique to it. The documentary film- makers/activists intentions are to raise awareness the trouble that is being brought upon to the Tootgarook swamp and its inhabitants, and it is sort of 'advertising' to save it from complete destruction. It is clearly an eco- friendly film, which helps with the observational aspect of the film. This documentary shows the hardships of life and tells us how we can help them, even if we don't live in Australia. Towards the end of the short, there is a link to a website that lets you donate money to help out with the cause, so it takes full advantage of social media and it really shows how social media like this can help people/activists with their fights, regardless of what it happens to be. The target audience for this film is for environmentalists/those who deeply care for the area of the title, and the many birds who inhabit it.

'Geneva: When Poverty is No Longer Hidden'

This film overlooks the increasing problem of poverty in Geneva, and follows the people of Geneva attempting to regain their dignity and get more respect from the Government and their employers. The film is an 'Expository' documentary, and is showing the crisis to people from a specific point of view, in this case, from the poorer people's point of view. As I stated in the first bullet point, the documentary film- makers' intentions is to show the poverty that has stricken certain parts of Geneva, and is attempting to change this and bring better jobs and living conditions to the people. This film and 'Tootgarook' are very similar in tone and style, as both are dealing with a global problem and are both, in their own way, 'eco- friendly (in this case, it is more about the economy). The narrative shows the poverty stricken parts of Geneva and the people who live there as they try to get better jobs and living conditions for themselves through protests and community meetings with the Government. Similar again to 'Tootgarook', the film switches between shots of the current lives of the Geneva people, to their meetings and protests, and also manages to fit in some very informative interviews with the locals. The film has a link to a website called 'Unheard Voices' who have many other documentaries surrounding poverty and issues in poorer Countries, so it is a part of a much larger campaign. The target audience for this film is, again, like 'Tootgarook' is about quite a large area, so this appeals to a ton of people. Many people in Geneva would want to get involved with the film to try and help out with what the film makers are trying to accomplish.

'What Most Schools Don't Teach'

This 'documentary' acts as more of a short film and an advertisement. The film gathers together several different computer programmers and people who have become successful with the use of computer 'coding' (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.) and gets them talking about why Schools should encourage students to study coding and software, regardless of what they want to do as a career. This is an 'Expository' film, like the Geneva film. As it shows us different people's opinions on a specific subject from their point of view, and it attempts to persuade you with this technique. The film- makers intentions is to encourage Schools to teach computer programming and coding so that the students can live out their full potential and build up their own companies. This film is very different to the previous two that I watched because there are primarily interviews with many different successful people who give the viewer an insight of why it is important to use coding in schools. When the first two films are more about global problems and economical issues, this film centres around education and why computing is important. It has a very uplifting tone, too and is very encouraging, especially to young adults who are looking forward to their future of plan on going to University (although, this seems to speak primarily to American students, but could speak to students in other places. The film features a series of short interviews mixed with shots of University Campuses, and there doesn't seem to be one documentary film- maker at the helm, but it looks like all of the successful people who are in the film took part in it to create it, so it can be seen as performative, even if the people in it didn't make it. The target audience for this film is a lot different compared to the previous two films. It doesn't represent a huge and important issue, it's just a bunch of very influential people encouraging young people to encourage Schoold to teach 'coding' which can earn you quite a career.

Moving Image Soundtrack Quiz

Tyree

Soundtrack Quiz

1a. Dialogue, sound effects and music.

1b. Diegetic sound is sound that is a part of the atmosphere in the film, for example; if a character puts on a CD and listens to music, a good example of this is the controversial scene in Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs' in which Mr. Blonde is torturing a Police Officer and listening to Stealers Wheel's 'Stuck in the Middle With You', we know that the character can hear the song because he is seen dancing along to it and miming the lyrics. Non- diegetic sound is something like music or a score that isn't meant to be heard by the character and is just there to enhance the mood of the scene, for example; 'Gonna Fly Now' that is used in training montages in the 'Rocky' movies, the song is, in a way symbolic to Rocky's success during his training. We know that this is non- diegetic sound because the music overpowers the sound of the regular scene. But, there are also cases in films where the film features a jokes that reverses our expectations of non- diegetic music, at the beginning of Mel Brooks' Western comedy 'Blazing Saddles', we hear an orchestral piece that we assume is just being used over a scene of a cowboy riding into town, until it is revealed that there is an actual orchestra performing that the cowboy rides pass.

1c. Synchronous sound is the sound that is heard on camera and becomes part of the actual shot footage, for example; if a character is talking or if he punches a door. Non- synchronous sound is the sounds effects that have been edited in post- production, a good example of this is when a character brings out a knife and you hear the metal of the knife brush up against more metal.

1d. The three different types of spoken word in film; the first is dialogue, in which every film has a large amount of (unless it is silent, of course), the second piece of spoken word in film is the use of a narration/voiceover, which has been used in films such as 'Carlito's Way', in this, Carlito is telling us his story from the beginning to the end. Finally, the last piece of spoken word in a film is dialogue heard in an interview that's in a documentary, like in 'Bowling for Columbine', although the sound of speech in an interview may sometimes be a little less clear than a narrative film, it is still clear and works well to the documentaries advantage.

Work in Progress

I uploaded my downloaded clip from 'Django Unchained' and began trying to edit in downloadable sound effects, as well as trying to find the best suitable one.

As for the clip for 'The World's End', I tried to download the film to get an extract from it, but I couldn't. So, I was searching for suitable sound effects that I couldn't create myself and I saved my recordings to my folder.

Action Plan- Django Unchained

Action Plan

DJANGO UNCHAINED

*Record and complete both of the soundtrack productions at the same time.

SCHEDULE: Tuesday/Thursday, record the dialogue for ‘Django Unchained’.

This is a double lesson, so I will attempt to record some foley sounds too, for both my soundtrack productions.

I will download the clip I need from ‘Django Unchained’ and save it to my folder on the Arts and Media Folder so that it is ready for editing together on Tuesday/Wednesday.

DEADLINES: This production should be recorded, edited and complete by February 14, I plan on recording all of the dialogue that I need this week, and also the foley sounds I will also record. I will make sure that the sounds are kept realistic and accurate. I will download any sound effects that I think aren't possible to record myself.

EQUIPMENT: The equipment I will need is a sound recorder for the foley SFX and the equipment that is available in the recording studio.

LOCATION: I will be recording the dialogue inside the recording studio, hopefully on Thursday. As for the sound effects, I will find a quiet area around the College to record those.

Action Plan- The World's End

Action Plan

THE WORLD’S END

*Record and complete both of the soundtrack productions at the same time.

SCHEDULE: Tuesday/Thursday, record the dialogue for ‘The World’s End’.

This is a double lesson, so I will attempt to record some foley sounds too.

On Friday, I will get the clip I need from ‘The World’s End’ and save it to my USB so it is ready for editing together on Tuesday/Wednesday.

DEADLINES: This production should be recorded, edited and complete by February 14, I plan on recording all of the dialogue that I need this week, and also the foley sounds I will also record. I will make sure that the sounds are kept realistic and accurate. I will download any sound effects that I think aren't possible to record myself.

EQUIPMENT: The equipment I will need is a sound recorder for the foley SFX and the equipment that is available in the recording studio.

LOCATION: I will be recording the dialogue inside the recording studio, hopefully on Thursday. As for the sound effects, I will find a quiet area around the College to record those.