Saturday, February 24, 2024

Story boarding

 

        Today we've reached the point of storyboarding for our project- Exciting!! We had a brainstorming session a couple classes ago and we came up with the basic plot for our story, but now we are laying a clearer path.

        We are dividing our planning into the scenes we've thought of so far (we will probably alter some aspects of these as time progresses), like a scene in a gas station bathroom, a funeral, and a car. According to these scenes, we are mapping which shots might look the best and which of them would help us tell the story most successfully. We are thinking more specifically of the order of our shots in a way that make sense and is engaging, and the planning is just helping us think about the details that will go into making our opening a little more specifically.

        For instance, since we want to have a shot of our main character dyeing her hair we had to come up with the logistics of this sequence because we recognize we can't realistically just dye our actors' hair. In order to make the fake bleach we plan to mix conditioner with either flour or starch to create a creamy and powdery consistency to make it look as realistic as possible, and then well use a wig to show her new, bleached hair, showcasing a contrast to her old look. Also, since we are planning on staging a funeral, we had to think of realistic ways we could do this, because we can't really have a real casket. We decided on using an urn instead and researched how funerals with urns usually look like in order to plan what well need for it.

  

        Our storyboard begins with an establishing shot of a gas station and then moves on to the gas station bathroom where our character will begin changing her appearance. We made sure to list a couple of shots and angles we want to try for each shot so when we are recording we have a sort of guide and then we can decide which one looks best. We decided to alternate the scenes in the gas station bathroom with scenes of a funeral with parallel editing in order to give the impression that both events are happening at the same time. This way we'll create the sense that they are correlated to each other. After the big reveal (close up on a picture of the main character at funeral) that the funeral is actually for the character we've been seeing change their appearance, we pan to cut to a scene where we see her in a car with her changed look and leaving this place behind, and with it a heart necklace she discards of, a statement piece we plan to incorporate throughout the opening as a sort of symbolism.




        Story boarding has definitely been an essential tool for success in the process of planning this project because it not only provides a map for recording but it also made us consider aspects of the production process that are essential to create a quality project but that not always come to mind if you don't plan ahead. In the next few posts i think ill be looking at fonts for the title and credits as well as the process of creating a script.



        



Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Further Research on Drama/Thriller Openings

 

        It is the start of a new week and even though we feel pretty good about the story we've been brainstorming; we still feel like we need to make a little more research on other openings from the same genre in order to know how to develop our purpose successfully. We've mostly been talking about creating an opening which has creating mystery as its main purpose, so I'm currently looking at drama/thriller movies that have that same purpose developed through their openings.

        Knives Out's (2019) opening is one that clearly and simply develops mystery by showing that a character has died within the first two minutes of the movie. The viewer is immediately led to the questions: How? Who? and Why? They don't really know who this character is and haven't developed any kind of relationship to him, but they can clearly see he is deceased, covered in blood, and there is a knife on the floor, so their mind goes directly to murder and what that implicates. The opening also has minor aspects that develop the setting it takes place in, but that's not necessarily something I would be eager to incorporate on my own opening. What I want to take from this opening is delivering a shock to the audience. In this case it is the death of a character very early on, which isn't the order of events the audience expects, but in my case, it would be showing the audience that the character they are seeing on their screen changing her appearance is supposed to be dead and that there is a funeral going on for her at that same moment. This would create the same type of questions the Knives Out opening created.



        Similarly, the opening scene for Girl, interrupted (1999) starts off at a point of the story at which the audience has no idea how they got there. There is the main character, Susanna, holding an unmoving Lisa Rowe and there are other characters present who seem to be affected by what's happening as they are upset and crying. The audience doesn't know what has happened to Lisa, where they are or how they even got to this point, so starting a movie off like this creates many questions, and therefor mystery. At the same time this is going on, Susanna is giving a voice over that provides no explanation to what's going on whatsoever, but it sets the audience up for what's coming next. I really like the idea of incorporating a voice over that won't necessarily give away what's happened to get to what's happening in the opening, but that will make sense at the end of the movie when the questions the audience have developed begin to be answered. 

        What I take away from this research is that I would like to make an opening in which the audience is watching the result of the story the rest of the movie will tell them, so to achieve that it is necessary to use what i learned from these productions in relation to creating mystery in their openings. 


Saturday, February 17, 2024

Scheduling Matters

 

        I just want to start off by saying that I'm pretty happy with our progress so far; It seems like we are on schedule as of now. So that is what I wanted to share in this blog post, our schedule for the next few months regarding this project. Having a basic outline of when things are supposed to be done is very important for me when tackling big tasks like this one. It really helps me not only by letting me organize my time so that I'm not missing anything from this project as well as other classes, but it also keeps me on track so that I can get this task done well and on time. Knowing me, the magnitude of this project could really be intimidating to the point of making me dread working on it, but since we have a schedule that breaks the whole into small pieces, the task definitely feels more approachable. 

         So, starting off on this month, we are mostly going to focus on researching genre, incorporation of titles and credits, thinking about our story and the approach we will take to our opening. We will also create our script, come up with the shots well use for our opening and finally create a storyboard. Toward the end of this month we'll begin planning our filming locations and organize filming and editing schedules. 

Here is a snippet of my calendar for the month of February:


        Beginning March, we will focus on the mise-en-scene elements we will use and begin our filming. We will also keep researching  project components continuously throughout the process as needed. Around the 6th week of the project we hope to start editing our project as well as start developing responses for the Creative Critical Reflection questions. By week 7 we want to be close to done with our editing and getting feedback from our peers on it. Weeks 8 and 9, toward the end of March and beginning of April, will consist of  CCR projects and questions and then the overall project reflection and submission.

Here's how that will be looking like:







Friday, February 16, 2024

Brainstorming and Ideas for Plot

         

        Today in class we are really focusing on the specifics of the story that we are going to base the opening on. On my last blog posts I mentioned that we were interested in making a psychological thriller; however, the story we are coming up with has less of a psychological aspect and more of just thriller and drama aspects. We took some inspiration from the movie Gone Girl (2014) I mentioned on my last post and a specific scene in this movie that depicts the main character changing her appearance because she is escaping her life. Including these shots of her cutting and dyeing her hair, applying darker make up and changing her clothing create a sense of mystery and a question of "why?" that would develop our purpose very nicely if we took inspiration from it. 

 



        Essentially, we came up with the idea of making our opening about a girl who leaving her old life behind. She really is not content it and is doing something about it. It would begin by having her go to a gas station and purchasing items to change her look. We want to include a scene in the gas station bathroom in which the girl is using all of the products she purchased to change her look drastically, like the scene from Gone Girl. We think that beginning the opening with this action will hook viewers from the start and start to create questions as to who this person is and why she’s doing this. At the same this is going on, we wanted to utilize crosscutting to scenes of a funeral, at which it is revealed that the girl we see at the gas station is supposedly “dead.” That’s what we have so far for brain storming; we hope that this sequence helps us create mystery as well as suspense towards what the girl is going to do next.

        In view of changing our approach, i decided to do some more research on movies that are both dramas and thrillers instead of psychological thrillers. Drama is a genre that focuses on creating realistic representations of events that happen in real life, and are very character driven. Some popular movies in this genre include Whiplash (2014), Little Women (2019), and The Holdovers (2023). I believe that the story we are going for will focus a lot on the character and her development, so this is why i want to draw inspiration from these genres. However, more specific examples of drama/thriller movies are Pulp Fiction (1994), Promising Young Woman (2020), and Knives Out (2019)

        Specifically, i liked the opening scene for Promising Young Woman (2019) because, like we want to do with our own opening, i leaves the viewer wondering who the character is and what happened to them by showing her walking down a street in the early morning looking disheveled and bloody, but calmly eating breakfast. This is unusual behavior, just like changing your appearance drastically in a gas station bathroom, so i believe we could really draw some good inspiration from this opening. I also really enjoyed the font of the credits and title, as well as the music, so i will definitely be looking into that in further research. 





Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Thinking of Genre

 

        Today me and my partner finally settled on the genre that we want our film opening to be based on. After some consideration, we decided on doing a thriller, specifically a psychological thriller, mixed with some aspects of drama. This choice correlates with our interest in the film opening purpose of developing mystery as I mentioned last blog post. 

        My research on this genre has showed me that it is characterized by having a moody, ominous, and unsettling tone to it, as well as having many twists and turns to the story itself, causing it to be a highly elaborate plot. A lot of thrillers are also characterized by elements of suspense that make the audience predict outcomes and anticipate the reveal of some truth. There's also the presence of clues and red herrings, which are pieces of information that lead the protagonist in the direction of the resolution of the mystery. The use of clues can make the audience feel immersed in the story and even come to their own conclusions as to what the clues mean; i think that this could be a fun technique to implement in our opening by incorporating shots of objects that have to do with an aspect of the plot of our story, but whose meaning we don't disclose, making the audience wonder what they mean. 

        The sub-genre of thriller, psychological thrillers, also focuses on anticipation and suspense but it concentrates more on the complicated emotional state of one of the characters, most likely the main character or an antagonist. Some very popular psychological thrillers include: American Psycho (2000), Shutter Island (2010), Gone Girl (2014), and Black Swan (2010).

 

        I was especially interested in the opening scene for Gone Girl. Although the purpose of the opening wasn't only to develop mystery, but also a lot of the setting where the story will take place, it also had good techniques which left the audience with questions. For instance, the use of ominous music set the dark tone, the close ups created the sense of intimacy and the voice over by whom we assume is the main character asks "what have we done to each other?" and then cuts to credit scenes and shots establishing settings. I think i would like to use dialogue in this way on my own piece in order to create mystery, as well as the same style of music.

        Throughout the next week i plan to continue to do research our chosen genre, come up with the details of our story, and pan out the schedule of the project as a whole to make sure i stay organized and on-task.




Friday, February 9, 2024

Transition Post

     


    The time has finally come! We have officially begun the process of creating our Portfolio projects in class today. I'm extremely excited to start this because I think that it will truly shape me as a content creator and media consumer. Thankfully, I feel prepared to start this thanks to all of the things we have learned in class and the projects we have done prior to this one; I can now see how those projects were really meant to get us ready for this. I will be recording the process of creating this film opening for the next few months in my blog.

    So far, I'm very interested in two of the types of purpose we can develop. The first one would be to develop tone. I think that this approach gives a lot of room for creativity in the way that one can give the audience a taste of what the movie will be. I would love to use mise-en-scene elements such as costume design and lighting to develop the piece's tone, and I love the idea of thinking deeper into the meaning and representation of colors, styles, etc. I like that one has to really get in the mind of the audience to see how certain things will make them feel and that choices are made with a lot of meaning behind them.

    The other approach to develop purpose that I really like is creating mystery. Similar to developing tone, I think that implementing mise-en-scene elements to allude or imply future events in the plot is a great way to expand one's creativity and be original; not only that, but it is also very entertaining for audiences to go back to the film opening after watching a mystery, and seeing all the foreshadowing and attention to detail that was done but they hadn't noticed. I would also be interested in using sound techniques in order to create suspense and questions, but mostly I'm interested in creating that big question mark on the audience's head that keeps them watching the movie in hopes of finding answers within.

    Without a doubt there will be challenges when taking on this big task, but I'm looking forward to putting my abilities to the test and using the knowledge earned in class to work in a larger scale than what we've been used to. 

Friday, February 2, 2024

Music Marketing #2

 


    When we first started this project a few weeks ago, I did not know what I was expecting our project to look like by the end. We got to base our project on the rock genre and immediately got to researching  bands and record companies that are relevant to this genre. We focused on artists that have released music in the last 5 years and on the marketing and distribution practices they engage in in order to get inspiration for our own band. We discussed what our band would be named and we decided on “The Lemon Drops” and created an aesthetic around this name and the style of the song we were assigned. Since our song was Blues rock and the name had to go with a fruit, we decided to take inspiration from the 70s rock bands like Fleetwood Mac and create an earthy aesthetic for the band. Lastly we came up with the number of band members and the instruments they would play, as well as their names and personalities.


    After establishing the basics, we got to planning our marketing strategies for the band’s new song “So Caught Up.” We came up with the band’s social media handles, as well as the band members, and in which social media platforms they would be active on. We bounced ideas off of eachother and decided that the band would be most active on Instagram and Tik Tok in order to appeal to their younger audience who has an interest in bands that try to embody the vibe of vintage rock and also Facebook and Twitter to reach nostalgic, older audiences. We decided that sticking to trends in social media like posting “ Day in the life” videos on Tik Tok and picture carousel posts on Instagram would successfully reach a young audience and provide a sense of familiarity to the fans. We also thought that including information about where the band is performing, when their music is coming out, and general information about them would be important to post on social media and it would also facilitate fans to get to other ways of marketing and distribution by promoting interviews, song pre-sales on Spotify and Apple Music, links to the website, etc. 


    On the topic of social media presence, we also decided that each band member would have a social media presence of their own and they would interact with fans through their own accounts to increase relatability. Moving to merchandise and physical advertising, we decided to sell guitar pick, merch, and vinyls on the band’s website in order to increase revenue and also to create a sense of community within fandom. The vinyls would also include posters of the band which would serve as promotion on its own. We also researched which festivals and events the band could participate in to gain exposure. 


    Regarding the production of our video, we decided to create a promotional music video for our song because we thought it would work well as a first video in order to introduce the artists to the world. We created a story board where we mapped out which shots/angles, camera movements and composition our shots would have, as well as how we could edit these. We came up with ideas for our video and decided that we would need two different sets for it, as well as different costume changes. We decided that some of the scenes would be of the band playing their instruments and singing their song in a dark room with moody lighting and then other scenes would be of the band in a natural environment doing a promotional photo shoot of the band. The first scene would establish their creative vision and the second would establish the member’s dynamic and personality. We all decided which days we were able to record our videos and take out pictures for magazine articles and posters.

After we recorded the content we decided on how it would be edited.


    Looking back on our work, I feel proud of time management skills and teamwork. I think that this project will help us all on our Cambridge portfolio project by giving us a taste of what managing our own time is like, as well as dividing tasks up in order to effectively complete the project as a whole. Experimenting with shots/angles, camera movements, sound, and editing will help us when we get to recording our portfolio and give us an idea of what looks good and what doesn’t. I believe this project increases our confidence in creating our own storylines as well. 



Friday, January 26, 2024

Music Marketing #1

    

        Upon being assigned our genre (rock), me and my group got to work on choosing a song to base our project on. We chose a song by The Teskey Brothers, So Caught Up, which mixes rock with a bit of blues, and we thought it had potential to make a great music video. We started to think about the members of the band we would create and their respective personality traits; coming up with names, instruments they played, and their relationships to one another. Before coming up with too much about the band, we made sure to do research on rock bands that were relevant to the genre and had released music in the last 5 years. This resulted in us having sufficient knowledge to come up with relevant marketing techniques that other bands have tried and proved to be efficient. Then, we continued to discuss the "aesthetic" of the band; we decided that they would emulate an earthy color palette since they take inspiration from the 70s and the blues of the song wouldn't match a grungy vibe; our presentations as well as any posters and merchandise follow this color scheme. 


        Around this point we also chose the name of the band: The Lemon Drops; the name matching the earthy energy we were going with. Once all of that was established, we divided the tasks required for the presentation among each other. I focused on their social media presence, Violette was in charge of designing merchandise and posters, Daniela took care of researching events, festivals, and artists with which they could collaborate for exposure, and Veronica took care of the website among other things. This allowed us to put our full focus on one thing at a time in order to increase efficiency. For social media, I was inspired by the research we did on a band called Inhaler. They are an Irish rock band, and its members are in their 20's which matched the members in our band. Their audience would be similar, so i made sure to pay attention to what they posted on their socials. For instagram, we decided that our band members would have an online presence from before the start of their music careers, so they would already have followers and even fans that would be interested in their music when it was released. I decided to stay up to the common trends going on Tik Tok and Instagram reels and included those in our social media campaigns. One of the trends in specific was “a day in the life” videos which connect fans to the lives of band members.



        After completing most of the campaign’s presentation, we began to plan our music video. We decided we would make a combination between an artistic video and a promo one. We thought that the artsy video would work well with the vibe we’ve established for the band and the promo would help the artists in getting some more attention to themselves since it is their first single. We discussed the logistics of the video between us, bouncing off ideas and creating a storyboard to serve as a guide to what we were going to record the day of. We planned what each of the band members was going to be wearing in the video, and decided which props ( like instruments) we could include. After we planned who would be best at editing the clips we would record and which program we would use. Now we’ve planned a date to meet and record our video. 



Friday, December 15, 2023

Representation

 

    The novel I chose to make an analysis about representation on is Circe by Madeline Miller. This is the story of one of the daughters of Helios, God of the sun in Greek mythology. She was never accepted by her family, and this led her to go through transformative change and get a kind of power forbidden by Gods: witchcraft. This book not only retells the story of a very famous character in Greek mythology whose story is associated with heroes like Odysseus and other relevant mythological figures, but it represents the struggles of being a woman in a society as discriminative as ancient Greece and stays relevant to issues women face today. 

 The story begins by describing the horrible treatment Circe endures when she lived in her father's court. She was looked down upon because of her rough voice, uncommon among Gods, and was considered "ugly" by the rest of the court, this made her feel like her divinity was indeed inferior and that she wasn't worthy of love. The fact that she is made to seem like everyone else in her surroundings shines brighter, according to the descriptions the book gives about her brother's and sister's golden skin inherited from their father, and that her voice isn't even loud enough to be heard by anyone represents the struggle that woman have historically faced to be listened to. Years of discrimination and countless efforts to be heard aren't only an experience that Circe lived at her home, but it has been the universal experience of many women for centuries now. This isolation within her own home causes Circe to be desperate for any type of love, so she tries to please her father and gives everything for a fisherman she fell in love with, both ending in disappointment when her father exiles her and the fisherman betrays her. This could somehow represent how society's expectations that are impossible to meet force women to please the people who place these standards on them. For example, beauty standards that dictate woman have to be thin, hairless, etc.

    One of the most important aspects of the book's plot is the assault Circe suffered when she was exiled. Some fishermen came onto her island and in her naivety, she decided to help them and provide shelter for them. After her rape she reflects on her situation and expresses her feelings of emptiness and vulnerability and even recalls how she was treated in the palace. How she recalled seeing her uncle's stares on her and even the way she was sometimes inappropriately touched by them. This aspect of the story paints woman's vulnerability in real life and the aggression woman have faced since the start of time. She is represented  as a victim and her struggles are recognized instead of blaming the assault on her, like society sometimes does with other victims. 

    From this experience, Circe started to feel a deep resentment for men in general, combining her father's treatment, the fisherman's betrayal, and the assault, she felt she could never trust a man again. After this incident, Circe began using her magic to seek vengeance. From then on every time a group of sailors came upon her island thinking they could take advantage of her, she would then transform them into pigs with her powers. The choice of making them pigs wasn't a random one, it is actually pretty common for men to be associated with the imagery of pigs in society. Men, specially, who have been associated with any kind of misogyny or aggression toward woman, so Circe turning men into pigs in this models represents them as this filthy, inmoral creature. 


    When it comes to representation, even the  angle chosen by Madeline Miller to tell this story is representative of how women are usually portrayed by media. In the famous book "The Odyssey", the heroic story of Odysseus and his journey home are told from an extremely male-focused lens. The only women who really have any part in his story are either antagonized or are made to be the usual submissive wife. But in Circe, the story focused entirely in the experience of women and how they are treated by this world, but specifically how they can be empowered by their individuality. By choosing this angle, Madeline Miller steered away from villainizing Circe as a cunning witch who is only present for a fraction of Odysseus story, but gives her a life of her own and in turn reflects how skewed the original story was toward the male point of view. The novel chooses to highlight these aspects and shows Odysseus as this side character who actually has many flaws, which was not really addressed by the heroic telling of his character in The Odyssey.



    







                                                                                                             







Friday, November 3, 2023

Genre Research

Romance films are currently one of the most popular genres in the industry due to their reach to a wide audience of different ages and backgrounds, relatability, and the escapism it provides for viewers as they can fully immerse themselves in a story. Although this genre can reach many audiences, depending on the context of the film, it is true that most of these films are directed toward a younger, female audience, specifically teens.  

Romance films follow love stories, generally between two protagonists, as they start unfolding, go through hardships, or end happily. The genre commonly focuses on themes of passion, emotion, affection, and heartbreak. Romantic films can take many shapes and forms, and some popular tropes include love at first sight, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, forbidden love, happily ever after, and misunderstandings/obstacles. There are also different sub-genres to romance like romantic comedies, historical romance and paranormal romance. Evidently, there is something for everybody within the romance genre, just like there is someone for everyone in real life. 


Romance films can take place in fantastical scenarios like the very famous saga ‘Twilight’ (2008), which deals with the love story between a human and vampire, or they could resemble real life more closely like ‘The Notebook’ (2004), which follows the struggles of a couple to finally end up together.  The themes and scenarios in romance films are largely based on the attitudes toward love and romance at the time. For instance, during the 1940s and 50s movies like ‘Gone With the Wind’ depicted love set in times of war, which was part of the conflict in the story and represented current times. In the present, movies focus more on the complexity of relationships in the modern world like ‘Love at First Sight’ (2023), which focuses on a couple that met on a flight to London for the first time and then had to find a way back to each other. 


When producing Romance films, directors have to consider a range of different techniques they could use to successfully tell their story. The lighting in Romantic films is an extremely important aspect, as it directly affects the mood that the film is transmitting. Dimming the lighting and using warm tones can create a very romantic and intimate scene, which is seen in a lot of movies of this type. Some of the shots that are essential to this genre are close-ups, tight close-ups, over-the-shoulder shots, and two-person shots. All of these are usually used to transmit the relationship between people. Close-ups create emphasis on connection and intimacy, over-the-shoulder shots emphasize the conversations that characters might have with each other, and two-person shots are essentially made to display a relationship between two people. 


Romance is highly successful in the market and here are some techniques that are usually used to achieve this. Some romance films include “branding” within their films to make viewers go back to these productions more often. For example, the movie ‘The Bodyguard’ (1992), which depicts the story of the famous singer Whitney Houston falling for her bodyguard after receiving threats from a stalker, uses the iconic song “I Will Always Love You” multiple times and the previous popularity of the singer to market the movie and gain a wider audience. Another really common marketing technique is to replicate more modern versions of classic love stories. For example, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (1996) was a play on the original Shakespeare story by the same name, which was changed to fit modern times; this caused new audiences to gain interest in the movie as well as fans of the original story to be intrigued by the remake. 


              Pretty Woman is a film that follows the love story between Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) and Edward Lewis (Richard Gere). Vivian is a struggling young woman that makes ends meet by working as an escort. One night she meets millionaire Edward and arranges a week-long “business arrangement” in which she has to keep him company. As they spend more time together, they begin to fall for one another in a classic “rags-to-riches” love story and despite trying to deny their feelings for each other at the beginning, they work out the difficulties and end up together. The poster of the movie clearly depicts their relationship as they are leaning against one another and the choice of their wardrobe clearly represents their status differences. The film has many instances in which the two characters can be seen under very dim, warm lighting (mostly when the most important intimate moments take place between them. The warm lighting gives a sense of tranquility and relaxation that goes hand-in-hand with intimacy. 


               The Titanic is arguably the most famous romance film out there. It is a historical fiction that follows the love story of Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt (Kate Winslet) at the time of the tragic sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic, at the time it set voyage, was the largest vessel ever built and its first voyage was a huge deal. In the movie, Rose was on the boat with her very wealthy family when she met a passenger from the 3rd class who was financially struggling, Jack. Jack and Rose start falling for one another as they spend more time together and face the difficulties of wanting to be together when they belonged to such different socioeconomic backgrounds. As their romance blooms, the vessel that historically sank in the Atlantic leaving little to no survivors, starts to do just that. The film deals with the tragic death of Jack and with an older Rose reminiscing on their story. Some of the most iconically romantic moments in this film are lit with warm, orange colors that once again, transmit intimacy, while the tragic and action packed scenes have more of a bluish tone which could represent the hopelessness of the situation they were in. The film’s use of close ups to emphasize interactions between the main two characters help develop their love story and show the character’s facial expressions throughout the story.

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Sound Project

 The following project required us to create a storyline without any images and solely through the use of sound. We had to create our own soundscape representing our scenario with sound effects we found online as well as with foley sounds we created by ourselves. The sound had to be edited as seamlessly as possible in order to make the soundscape smooth and realistic. 

Me and my partner developed our project by first brainstorming. We sat down and started bouncing ideas off of each other to come up with a good scenario. We decided upon a story set in a basketball court. After this. We created an outline that would serve as a checklist of all the sounds we had to gather for each part of our soundscape. We divided the Foley sounds we needed between the both of us and figured out how we would make them. 

Once we had a clear plan to follow, we truly got to work. We decided to use “Cap Cut” as our editing app and started to play around with the sound. We had found all of the online sound effects at this point. We created the soundscape with put the Foley sounds first and then added them when we were done making them. We had a final rough draft and all that was left was giving it the last final touches through editing in order to make transitions between sounds as smooth as possible. 

Here are a few links to images of our process: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LIPKn8nFLLTMoQpg9Rva9Q-ynpuc73I3/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G8_UVx-aMb_iDwNqyvfC_6NaqSzXEWnk/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17VLKr3Saxcd2j86DHkH5n0pY1oq9GdxH/view?usp=drivesdk

Project Outline:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14SRiCQnQaSyfzueyD3ohEDhxZAy_-q0L/view?usp=drivesdk

Soundscape project:

https://www.capcut.com/presentation/7291115799274733574?workspaceId=7290704452846305286 




Creative Critical Reflection

  To mark the official end of this project I’ll leave my answers to the Creative Critical Reflection here. Taking different approaches I was...