Thursday, 28 January 2016

Sound Planning - Sam McLeish

Our sequence is filmed with a voiceover instead of dialogue filmed on camera. This is useful because when it comes to filming in the woods, when it will most probably be windy, we won't have to worry about the volume of the audio and the interference from the wind. 

When it comes to placing the dialogue into the scene, this can happen in post-production after it has been recorded in a quiet room or recording studio. As we probably won't have access to a recording studio, we will most probably use a lapel microphone to record.

The beauty of this situation is that little changes to the script can be added without having to rerecord the visuals that go with it. As a result, these improvements will ultimately lead to a more successful performance because we are given extra time to make the opening sequence fit better with the overall synopsis of the film.



The backing-track that we suggested for this sequence was taken from the Free Music Archive (a royalty-free website) so there is no copyright infringement. The track is called 'Lost Cities'.

As you can hear in the clip, the crescendo in the song where it becomes more dramatic will probably not be useful to use because it has a rather dull beginning. This won't be an issue to us because we can either edit it in post production in order to only use the desired parts, or, incorporate it with another song for effect.

Finally, as we aren't necessarily bringing along microphones to the shoot for dialogue, we will probably use them instead to create foleys for sound effects. However, this won't be an issue if we don't because we can use Garageband (like we did a few posts back) in order for the sound effects to be clear and easily manipulated in post-production. 

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