Film Opening - Final Product

Our final film opening with the final changes to contrast and brightness.

Film Opening - Pre-Contrast/Brightness Changes

Our final film opening without the final changes to contrast and brightness made as I  decided after this was uploaded that I needed to make final changes to contrast and brightness levels to brighten up some of the more boring scenes.

Film Opening - Music

Kirby and Imogen  searched free music sites for appropriate music to use for both the villian scenes and the hero scenes

They used a website called Jamendo to download both the score for the Hero and the Villain. The Hero's sounds really care free and upbeat, connoting that he assumes nothing is wrong. The song is by someone called Brad Sucks and the song is called "Fixing My Brain", ironic considering the plot of our film.

The score of the villian is very contrasting to this. It is a very ominous and foreboding sound. It makes you feel tense with threatening expectations. Kirby and Imogen also found this on Jamendo. The actual song "Mother Fonker" by Ogg Vorbis. After the first 15 seconds the song becomes more upbeat and the tone changes to being more relaxed. These first few seconds however are perfect for setting the mood of the scenes including the villain personality. 

Whilst editing i decided to find a static sound for the moments of static  in the film opening, for this i simply Googled 'Tv Static noise' and found a site called Soundjay where you can freely download the static noise in different lengths, i used the 5 second static noise for most occasions that the static is used, however there's a time where the static lasts over 5 seconds and looping it made the sound stop and start so for this I downloaded the 20 Second version.

Research - Sound Design

David lynch once said "Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent  sound" However Mr Wallis disagrees and said he thinks that 40 percent visual  and 60 percent sound is more accurate.

 

Mr Wallis showed our class this video on monday, in this video we see the importance of sound and sound design and we also see some of the ingenious ways in which sound production teams can manipulate every day objects such as slinkies to make effective sound effect such as lasers.

 

 

Sound design is everything you hear in a tv programme or movie including backgroud noise, dialogue, score, sound effects, ambient/drone noises and every thing else that you can hear (this also includes silence)

Sound design is just as important as the images on screen, if not more important. Sound can change the mood and feel of a film of programme completley.