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Call Sheet

Call Sheet

Sound Person's Journal

Sound team: Jaspreet Hanspal, Ahmed Khan, Sahir Ahmed


Jaspreet's Sound Person Journal:
My findings from contributing to sound has been a learning curve for me, as I have discovered how crucial sound effects can prove to be in improving the quality of your work, and how vital it is to have naturalistic sound to create ambiance and atmosphere, and make the video more realistic as a whole.
Finding the sound effects was difficult as it was hard to find a suitable/realistic sound effect to match actions such as footsteps, heartbeat, and the door opening and closing. We also had to find an iconic tune to include in our video, as this is a marketing strategy I wanted to include as Director. At last we found our sound on YouTube, and decided to use a file named 'scary music' which sounded like the 'harry potter' theme tune. however we thought this suited best, as it sounds like a trinket box playing, which corresponds with the age of the little girl, hinting to the viewer the film is going to be about this little child, creating an enigma.
We used programmes such as SoundCut Pro, Clip-art (on word), Youtube and Soundcloud to find our music. We mainly used SoundCut Pro and YouTube, as it was easy to transport the files onto our film, and we used Media Converter (mediaconverter.net) to convert the video file from youtube to an audio file for our production.
Despite finding all the sounds, some worked and some did not. So I had to go and find new sounds with my team, and add them to the production. At the last minute we had to make changes, with feedback from the post-questionnaire I conducted. We eliminated the 'crying' sound for the catchy scary theme tune, as we wanted to create recognition for the little girl, and create suspense for the audience. We also included the heartbeat to also create intensity. In the end, I think the sound has really heightened the quality of my film, and I believe it has definitely improved from the 1st draft successfully, I am very happy with the results!


Sahir's Sound Person Journal:


Being part of the sound crew for our production, has provided me with key skills which I may be able to use in the future for my own advantage. Being part of the sound crew meant that I, along with my other group members, had to find appropriate sounds for our thriller, which would be appropriate, sound effective and sync in with our film. We all found suitable sounds and sampled them with our video and came to a group decision on which ones we should choose. The two main resources we used to find our sounds were Soundcut Pro and YouTube. I made sure that the sounds I used did not have any copyright issues related to them, and this was not a problem with sound cut pro, as all the sounds on there are default sounds already imported into the sofwares' data. I had to make sure that when I was looking for sounds, they did not sound too unrealistic as this would make less like a Horror/Thriller. I found alot of sounds, however many of them did not fit into the guidelines we set out for our sounds to have, therefore I had to scrap alot of them, and proceed with a selected few. We did not find sounds for the effect of Ahmed's footsteps, therefore I came up with the idea of going out and recording certain sounds to make our sound searching alot easier. Hence, later on, Jaspreet did the same with Ahmed after realising how convenient that would be. Our film was a film which needed to put the viewers in suspense, therefore we needed to find a theme tune which effectively went with our story line. Jaspreet and Ahmed found a great theme tune, which was somewhat like the Harry Potter tune, and decided to use it as our opening theme tune. I had a listen to the tune, and acknowledged Jaspreet and Ahmed on their great sound finding skills. All in all, being part of the sound crew had made me a more all round cameraman and media group member, and has given me key skills which I would be happy to use in the future, and would enable me to fit into a film-making cast/crew much more easily.

Camera Shots

Establishing shots: The view is so far away from the subject that he/her is not even visible. Often used as an establishing shot.

Very Long Shot: The subject is barely visible but the emphasis is still on the environment around him.

Long Shot: The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible (full shot).

Mid Shot: Shows some part of the subject in more detail while still giving an impression of the whole subject.

Medium close up: Half way between a mid shot and a close up.

Close up: A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame. Allow the audience to focus on something significant usually for facial expressions.

Extreme Close up: The extreme close gets right in and shows extreme detail.

Cut in: Shows some other part of the subject in detail.

Cutaway: A shot of something other than the subject.

Two Shot: A shot of two people, framed similarly to a mid shot.

Over the shoulder shot:  Looking from behind a person at the subject.

Point-of-View Shot: Shows a view from the subject’s perspective.

Weather Shot: The subject is the weather. Can be used for other purposes, e.g background for graphics.

Camera Movement:

A director may might want to add movement to go with the action, going from one shot to another. Moving the camera sometimes takes a lot of time, and makes the action seem slower, as it takes a couple of seconds for a moving camera shot to be effective, when the same information may be placed on screen in a series of fast cuts. The style of movement be chosen, but the way of actually moving the camera must be selected too. There are seven basic ways to do this:

1. Pans

A movement which scans a scene horizontally. The camera is placed on a tripod, which turns the camera, often to follow a moving object which is in the middle of the frame.

2. Tilts

A movement which shows a scene vertically, similar to a pan.

3. Dolly Shots

Sometimes called TRUCKING or TRACKING shots. The camera is placed on a moving vehicle and moves alongside the action, generally following a moving figure or object.. The camera might be mounted on a car, a plane, or even a shopping trolley.

4. Hand-held shots

The hand-held movie camera was first used in World War II, when news reporters took their windup Arriflexes and Eyemos into the battleground. Hand held shots can take the smoothness out of the video unlike the Dolly shot which is often much more smooth.

5. Crane Shots

A dolly shot but in a crane, useful way of moving a camera - it can move up, down, left, right, swooping in on action or moving diagonally out of it.

6. The steady cam

A way of holding a camera steadily without it shaking usually used for dynamic shot.

6. Zoom Lenses

A zoom lens contains a mechanism which can change the magnification on a still camera, this means it can get a 'close up' shot while not being anywhere near the person. Video zoom lens can change the position of the audience, very quickly a smash zoom or slowly, without moving the camera, which helps saving a lot of time.

7. The Aerial Shot

Is usually taken from a helicopter. We usually see this used at the beginning of a film, in order to reveal setting and movement. A helicopter can move more freely than a Crane and can go anywhere, keep up with fast movement , move in and out of a scene, and reveal real drama and exhilaration.

Final Copy- The Three Wheels of Horror

We decided as a group to try and initiate even more suspense and horror, so we made very last minute changes to try and enhance the build up of tension; we added a new sound effect which substantially heightens the suspense as it is both loud and overwhelming, and eliminates any distractions from diagetic sounds which are unnecessary, such as the running, or the echo in the corridor. Furthermore, we decided as a group we would keep the 'crying' sound, as we felt removing it made no sense as to why the little girl was sat in the corner, which would confuse the audience. Also the crying sound added an abstract feel to the scene, as an enigma is created. We felt as if this new and improved version of the film is more able to meet the expectations of the audience, and capture their attention all throughout.
By Jaspreet

Recce Pictures

These are some of the recce pictures I took, and these show our group working. Some of the pictures were taken from our day of filming, and clearly show us shooting our short film. The other pictures are taken from a random day where two of our group members are shown to be getting on with their work.

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