Screen Shots of How We Produced Our Prelim Clip

We added text to our Prelim Clip to show the audience who took part. This also fits in to a traditional film opening where the Director is shown last on the screen so its who the audience remember last in the opening credits.

 

We exported our clip to Soundtrack Pro when we finished adding Text. This allowed us to add sound to our Prelim clip which makes it more effective for the audience and fits in with our clip. This conveys more emotion that the audience will feel towards the character.

Foley Sound

Foley sound is the reproduction of everyday sound effects which are added in a film to make the sound much better and link in well with the film. Footsteps are one of the well known foley sounds used. Jack Donavon Foley was the creator of foley sound in 1927. Foley sounds help create realism and audiences never realise that the sound effect was added they think it is all natural, without foley sounds films can be less entertaining and the noises would feel un natural.

Our Prelim Clip

180 degree roll

The 180 degree allows an audience to visually connect with unseen movement. The 180 degree rule insists that everything is shot from right to left. If the camera was to film from left to right the audience would miss some action and be very confused. A change in the rule would change key things in films and sporting activities like an eye line match. This rule must not be broken.

Foley Sound

I learnt that Foley Sound effects are sound effects that synchronize on screen and require the expertise of a Foley Artist to record properly. Footsteps, the movement of hand props (e.g. a paper and pen, a cup of coffee) and the rustling of cloth are common in Foley Units. Foley is another method of adding sound effects. Foley is more of a technique for creating sound effects than a type of sound effect. It is often used for creating the real world sounds that are very specific to what is going on onscreen. With this technique the action onscreen is essentially recreated to try to match it as closely as possible. If it is done correctly, it is very hard for audiences to tell what sounds were added and what sounds were originally recorded. In the early days of film and radio, Foley artists would add sounds in realtime or pre-recorded sound effects would be played back from analogue discs in realtime. Today, with effects held in digital format, it is easy to create any required sequence to be played in any timeline. 

 

 

The 180 Degree Rule

The 180 degree rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line.  The new shot is called the reverse angle.

When I filmed my Preliminary Exercise I included the 180 degree rule. I included a wide range of camera shots and movements which showed the relationship between two characters.

 

 

My Final Project

Title Sequence Editing Clip With Sound.

 

 

This is my Final Project. I added Sound to it using Sound Track Pro. It's a lovely Sound of a light piano being played which creates a sympathetic atmosphere throughout the opening scene. This allowed the full effect of the film opening to take place for the audience to view.