Our main influence was August Rush it had a lot of dramatic moments in that, August rush who plays the guitar and wishes to see his parents by playing music and they eventually do. We based this on bullying where Alex played the main character and as he plays mellow tunes on the guitar we learn a little bit about him before he goes to college. We also had other ideas like Alex's grandad had past away and he was a music legend but its been hard for Alex to cope with it. As a group we had the idea of scenes like flashbacks where Alex has been doing concerts and how he grew up and an overlay of Alex crying , kneeling in front of his grandad's gravestone.Initially that was our main idea but we had feedback from the teacher saying it would not work since it is telling the whole story instead of an opening sequence or an ending.
These are the pictures of our main influence
Being the Sound Role heres what i contributed for the project
From the opening sequence towards the part where he starts playing the guitar ive added the diegetic jazz improvisation done by alex from our spare footage into the sequence i think it this good because it immediately gives the audience a hint to whats going to come.
when it comes to the scene where he plays the guitar the diegetic before that is faded out.
I had feed backs from the other group and they have said that it works really well
The sound in the Sequences we did were a mixture between SFX, Diegetic sounds. When we See him plug the lead to the amp
we wanted to have a sort of echo sound when you plug the lead so it will sound more realistic. What i did was edit the sound clip of that frame and put reverberation so it sounded like it was in a hall and just added some gain in it. I think this works really well because it adds more effect to it.The main sound for the sequence frame was just a plain click. most guitarist would know that it would make a distorted electric sound when you plug the lead in.
The scene where hes walking down the stairs have a diegetic sound in the background. Where i just extracted it from the scene where his playing the guitar and i asked our Editor Tom to fade that scene out-into Alex walking down the stairs.
The specialFX i added where hes in the kitchen or near the kitchen was house hold things like washing mashing and water basin drying.
I think this works really well because it gives the effect of the house being busy.
I think i could of improved it by putting more house old items and combined them together but it was really hard to find them on final cut since there was no search option to find the soundFX
it was really hard editing the main specialfx because there was a tiny part in there that had a toilet flush sound which was quite inappropriate for a scene like that.
I also asked alex to play Jazz in this because it gives that effect where everything is just calm but playing it slower makes it more dramatic going back to our idea in august rush one of the male lead, he plays a song where he uses the same effects as Alex does in the film sequence but on a different guitar an electric acoustic and he just plays chord progression which is nothing technical but leaves it simple for example alex is only plucking string by string. 0:20 onwards shows the example of august rush .
Overall i think ive done a great job of my role but there is room for improvements
that i can learn for next projects to come the group has done really well to support my role without the cinematographer and editor it would of been a hard role for me as both gave me ideas as to which sound fits where
feedback's from the other group were just to adjust the volume because some parts the sound was louder than usual but other than that the sound syncing was good.
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