Final Soundtrack Production Proposal 2- Django Unchained

Final Soundtrack Production Proposals

For my two soundtrack productions, I plan to create my own original sounds (diegetic, non- diegetic) and apply them to the scenes of my choice and make them as interesting and innovative as before and make it to a professional standard.

Clip 2- ‘Django Unchained’ Handshake Scene

Genre- Comedy/Western/Drama

Client- Quentin Tarantino (for Columbia Pictures/The Weinstein Company)

Target Audience- 15- 24, any gender (primarily male), English language, audience must have interest in Quentin Tarantino's previous films. I will create this so that it is suitable for the age group and the target audience by keeping the same mood that the original clip has.

Sound FX Information- Create a tense scene. We will record voices for two of the characters and a few sounds with the use of foley. Other sounds I could download and edit in. The clip will include gun shots and footsteps and on one occasion, a sound effect (that I will record) of a character dropping dead on the floor.

Music Information- There is no music in this scene.

Spoken Word Information- I will provide voice actors to dub the dialogue in the clip (this scene is very dialogue heavy when compared to my first clip which has a mixture of heavy dialogue and sound effects)

*Will involve studio recording, Foley recording and downloadable FX.

CALVIN: It's a custom here in the South, once a business deal is concluded, for the two parties to shake hands. It implies good faith.

SHULTZ: I'm not from the South.

CALVIN: But you are in my house, doctor. I'm afraid I must insist.

SCHULTZ: Insist what? That I shake your hand? Then I'm afraid I must insist in the opposite direction.

CALVIN: You know what I think you are?

SCHULTZ: What you think I am? No, I don't.

CALVIN: I think you are a bad loser.

SCHULTZ: And I think you're an abysmal winner.

CALVIN: Never the less, here in Chicksaw County a deal ain't done till the two parties have shook hands. Even after all this paper signin', don't mean shit you don't shake my hand. 

SCHULTZ: If I don't shake your hand, you're gonna throw away twelve thousand dollars? I don't think so. Let's go.

CALVIN: Bartholomew, if she tries to leave here before this mother fucking German shakes my hand. Cut her down.

SCHULTZ: You really want me to shake your hand?

CALVIN: I insist.

SCHULTZ: Well, if you insist.

*SCHULTZ'S footsteps as he walks towards CALVIN*

*The sound of a revolver cocking and shooting*

*CALVIN falls to the floor*

Final Soundtrack Production Proposal 1- The World's End

Final Soundtrack Production Proposal

For my two soundtrack productions, I plan to create my own original sounds (diegetic, non- diegetic) and apply them to the scenes of my choice and make them as interesting and innovative as before and make it to a professional standard.

Clip 1- ‘The World’s End’ Gary vs. Teen Scene

Genre- Science- Fiction/Comedy

Client- Edgar Wright (for Universal Pictures/Focus Features)

Target Audience- The main demographic is young adults (like the previous films) who are aged 15- 23, any gender (primarily male), English language, audience must have interest in Edgar Wright’s previous films, science- fiction, comedy and the television series ‘Spaced’.

Sound FX Information- Create a tense and action- packed scene with humour. We will record any sounds we think is possible ourselves, and also download the ones that would be too difficult.

Music Information- I may or may not use music in this scene, if I did then I would choose an already made song, which could lead to copyright and licensing issues, but I was also considering creating music that was similar to the films' composer, Steven Price.

Spoken Word Information- I will provide voice actors to dub the dialogue in the clip (even though there is very little, and a few grunts and struggling sounds from the characters)

*Will involve studio recording, Foley recording and downloadable FX.

Sound Times:

36: 30- Door opens

36: 34- 'Careful, floors a bit pissy. Wasn't me'

36: 40- 'That was me'

36: 44- 'Did that in '90'

36: 45- '1990'

36: 51- 'Punched the shit out that wall'

36: 53- 'I don't know why'

36: 54- 'Seemed important at the time'

36: 59- 'You guys look like you're having a good night, though'

37: 02- 'Doing the Golden Mile tonight'

37: 05- 'Tag along... we'll be like the 6 Musketeers'

37: 11- Tap and soap dispenser, cleaning hands

37: 12- 'I said we're doing the Golden Mile!'

37: 18- 'You think you're so cool, don't you?

37: 20- 'Well, we were cooler'

37: 24- 'We owned this town'

37: 26- 'Paved the way for you lot... blazed a trail'

37: 28- 'Hey, look at me when I'm talking to you!' Gary shoves teen

37: 30- 'Please don't'

37: 31- 'Don't what?' Gary whacks hat of teen's head

37: 32- 'You don't what to be doing that'

37: 33- Gary chuckles 'Oh, don't I?'

37: 36- Gary tries to hit teen, but teen grabs Gary's arm

37: 38- Teen activates hand dryer. Teen face- palms Gary, Gary whacks arm off, face- palmed again

37: 38- Gary struggling

37: 40- Teen pushed against wall

*INCLUDE MANIC FOOTSTEPS*

37: 46- Glass mirror smashing, head ringing sound

37: 50- Gary screams- 'AAAAAAAH!'

37: 54- Teens head hits urinal and smashes

Social Action Media Production: Kony 2012

 

1. What is the social issue being focused on in the documentary?

 Kony's dictatorship in Uganda.

 

2. Summarise what happens in the beginning/middle/end of this documentary

The film shows the complications of the World, events that are faced by different people. In the middle of the film we are shown the film makers attempts to rally up thousands of people for protest. 

 

3. What type of documentary is this? Conventions used?

 It is a documentary very similar to 'Bowling for Columbine', albeit without the satirical humour.

 

4. What techniques are used to maintain the audiences attention?

 The film is stylized very cinematically for a documentary. The film- maker uses interviews featuring his young son, and uses a lot of special graphics to transition to different scenes.

 

5. What is the purpose of this documentary? What change is it campaigning?

 The purpose of this documentary is to try to stop a murderous rebel group called the LRA in Uganda and a dictator named Joseph Kony.

 

6. Who is the target audience? Age/gender/interests/location/languages etc.

 Everybody all around the World. The film makes it clear that the solution to the problrm can involve everybody, including young people.

 

7. How have they been targeted?

 They have been targeted through social media.

 

8. How is the audience encouraged to participate in creating change?

Through viral campaigns and being encouraged by the film- maker. They tell them to make more people aware of Kony by putting him in the spotlight.

 

I think this documentary is very unethical in its way of doing things and is very preachy.

Factual Television Analysis

Tyree

Task 3

3A.

Television, computer, phone.

3B.

Out of all the devices I use to watch television, my television and my computer have the best sound quality because 1) the television I own is an HD television so it features the best sound quality in the house, apart from our other HD TV in the living room. My computer has decent sound quality, but only when the earphones are placed in the speakers, when they are taken out the stereo speakers are loud, but the sound gets very distorted if the volume is too high. None of the devices at my home are fully capable for surround sound at the moment, but the TV in my room and the living room are the best devices that are compatible to be fixed with surround sound.

3C.

If I was watching an action film or a Western that I’ve been wanting to watch for a long time, I, personally would want to watch it with the best possible sound quality. I am a huge movie fan so if I view a film at home, then it needs to be in high definition sound so that I can fully enjoy the film and get a good home cinema experience. If the film I’m watching had good high def picture but had poor sound quality (for example, if there was no HD sound) I would deem it completely unwatchable, because to me, having the best cinema experience comes from the quality of the sound as we all expect the picture quality to be excellent. I cannot become immersed or fully enjoy the film as much as I would want to if the surround sound was really loud. The quality of the sound is most important if the film has a lot of dialogue scenes because the audience would need to follow important plot points, and if they couldn’t, they wouldn’t understand the film and enjoy it.

3D.

Studio audio recording

Programme name: Mock the Week

Channel: BBC One

Date: 10^th October 2013

The reason for using a live studio audio recording on something like Mock the Week is because it is a common convention used in comedy panel shows. If anything, it is a form of audience participation. The audience at home who are watching it on TV would expect to hear the TV audience laugh with the comedians’ witty jokes. I also think that it makes the programme a lot livelier for the panel, and more importantly, the audience.

Location audio recording

Programme name: BBC News at Six

Channel: BBC One

Date: 15^th October 2013

This component is used on all news programmes when somebody is reporting live on location to investigate more in- depth with the current story. This can be useful if the reporter wants to get quick interviews and reactions from passers by, to see what their views are on the matter. Even though this is a common convention, it is also very common for news programmes to have technical difficulties when recording on location.

Interview

Programme name: BBC News at Six

Channel: BBC One

Date: 15^th October 2013

This is also common in news programmes, for this component, the reporter interviews somebody linked to the story or who has an opinion on it, live in the studio or on location somewhere else. This is interesting because they can both give out completely different ambient sounds. If live in the studio, the ambience would be very quiet and the interviewer and interviewees voices would be heard superbly, but if they were on location, or outside somewhere, the sound would be, not bad, but not as good as it would sound in a studio. Also, as I mentioned above, there could be technical difficulties.

Voiceover

Programme name: Stephen Fry: Out There

Channel: BBC One

Date: 15^th October 2013

Voiceovers are sometimes common in UK panel shows, but more specifically in documentaries, like in Stephen Fry: Out There, this programme is both presents and narrates. Voiceovers as narrations are used for expositional purposes to give more information to the audience. Audiences would expect to hear this as documentaries are supposed to be informative for them.

A Moving Sound Source

Programme name: Top Gear

Channel: BBC One

Date: 20^th February 2011

Moving sound source is commonly found in TV programmes such as Top Gear, when the show does the ‘Star in a reasonably priced car’ portion of the programme, we have distorted, bad sound heard from inside the car because it is moving at an accelerated speed. The audience who watch at home should suspect this in every episode, but the sound isn’t all that bad. 

EI8HT SOUNDS FOR SE7EN

RUNNING UP STAIRS FOOTSTEPS (RECORD)

RAIN (DOWNLOAD)

SIREN (DOWNLOAD)

DOOR SLAMMING OPEN (RECORD/DOWNLOAD)

SHOUTING (MORGAN FREEMAN VOICE MUST STAND OUT ABOVE THE REST)

BRAD PITT SPEECH

WEAPONS RATTLING

HALLWAY AMBIENCE