AICE Media Studies

 Here is my critical reflection of the question: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?  

 This is my response to CCR question #2

 My response for CCR question #1 

This is our opening sequence titled "Uninvited". I am quite proud of how it turned out.

          For the opening sequence, we needed a song to play in Sadie’s headphones when she walked into the house. We explored many options and considered many possible genres. We first considered using a more popular song. I sent an email to the artist for permission. We quickly realized that getting permission from a larger artist would be very difficult. Most popular artists either do not respond to independent filmmakers or require licensing fees that were beyond our budget for this project. We therefore settled with a song called The Lions, by a small band Nirmala has relations with that goes by the name of Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers . This way it would be much easier to secure permission. We were graciously granted to use any part of the song we would like for this project, for a period of 14 months. This was a relief, since I felt music licensing was one of the larger hurdles we needed to overcome with this project. We would only use th...

Sound effect in the edit page      Sound effects are an important part of this opening sequence. First, I had to acquire the audio files for these sound effects. I decided that it would be best to record the sound effects myself. One of the sound effects is a knife falling on the floor. I used my phone to record in my kitchen and dropped a knife some distance away. This is because in the film the sound source is in a separate room from the subject, so I wanted to make it sound like the knife was distant. In a similar manner, I recorded the sound of me knocking on a window from the exterior, while my phone was inside. I had already recorded the sound of the microwave going off on set. I then, similarly to how I uploaded the footage, plugged in my phone to my computer and transferred the files onto it. I then uploaded the videos into the media pool in Resolve.      First, I had to convert these videos into audio files. I did this by dragging the videos into t...