Evaluation - Post Production Process

Studio Shoot Evaluation (Group B)

We where set a task as a group to create an idea that could be used as a showreel to represent our DFSA course for the new students attending. We brought together an idea which was about, a DFSA student who had been thrown into jail for being too creative. At this point we need to produce a story that reflected how interesting and exciting the course was and developed the idea of the character breaking free, into the creative world of DFSA. We planned to build a wall of TVs in the creative world that displayed all the past and present work of previous students. Set design was a key part of this project as we would be build along with designing the set as a group.

I was originally given the role as grip along with nick, but later was offered the role of sound design due to a re-arrangement of roles.  Although the film we were making did not require much microphone dialog I still had to collect other forms of secondary audio such as;

• Footsteps
• Rustling of paper
• Objects being thrown 
• Characters body responses i.e. breathing, hands, body movements etc
• Room tone
• bricks falling 

Post-production involved putting together the sounds collected into a sequence that could be played alongside the footage. The final video footage was missing audio from certain scenes where the internal mic on the camerae was not on, whilst the boom mic was not needed. Foley sounds needed to be recorded and collected so they could be placed in the sound edit for the video. Searching for a soundtrack was quite troublesome, my approach to the piece was finding a track that had a similar style sonically to the footage. I had found two main soundtracks for possible usage called 'Away' by Igor Dvorkin and 'Brink' by Fesliyan studios.  

Away, was the deciding track for me because of how the emotions developed alongside one another through both the music and the footage. Unfortunately the sound edit I had produced was not used in the final screening. 

After reviewing the final footage at the screening, I feel the changes made to the footage at the end was a good decision. With it originally ending with the character just crawling through the wall and ending. This i believed helped give the audience watching, a better understanding of what was happening within the story.