Analysis of the Foley sounding and recoring of the fight sequence.

This is our group fight scene. The ambition of the task was to produce a fight scene in which would have conventions in the film industry. So, to begin with we had to fill each member within our group with a role and me and Nicola was chosen as actors, Louise as the filmed and Claire helped us by creating sound effects at first. We, chose the narrative by group discussion and the chosen narrative: a youth in which was scary would attack a old grannie to try and rob her shopping which worked quite well as, it had the realism that would in turn be familiar and not so shocking within society as, the papers have similar stories.

Once, we finished shooting it was all a matter of time in which we had to edit, this was done on the apple macs so that we could source programmed such as, iMovie. We, choose to use iMovie as, we felt more confident with this programmed and this would therefore, produce a better outcome if we thought it did. Then, we finished shooting and had to present to the class. We then, as a class was told that we had to create Foley sounding for the fight scene with the food that he sourced which was vegetables, meat and nuts. With all the items we used we practiced so that the best outcome would be produced. Celery sticks implicated the sound of broken bones. Nuts cracking for a sense of cracking noises and bone movement.

Some of the Foley sounding sequence events that we did have to make and invent the so included: Picking up the shopping bag, snapping bones, opening a door, answering a mobile phone and walking down a corridor with no noise.

When creating some of the noises it can be suggested that we learnt it was a great help to have the footage available for viewing as, we could then view it whilst making the noise, which meant that the timing was perfected. This also meant that we could alternate as,  we could view before making the noise which meant that each noise was less time consuming. I felt that this added and adapted our organizational skills; meaning that we worked much better as a group as, it gave us direction.

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One could consider, that mixing two noises together gave a great outcome as, it added to noise effect meaning that it made the noise seem more cohesive to the footage, this was visible through the fight scenes such as, mixing meat slaps and crunching nut shells gave a realistic falling sound to hit the floor. This meant that those less indirect actions that maybe not noticed until the reviewing stage could have those background Foley soundings to make the fight look real and continues instead of an alternative of stop and go.

Previous to the Foley sounding we did improvise by making sounds. Claire made sounds for the fight scene in which turnt out rather well. Although, the sounds produced was good we did choose to use the vegetables to see how it could turn out; especially if we took this avenue within our own opening title sequence.

The editing process was completed on Final Cut; Nicola and Daisy completed most of the editing of the Foley soundtrack, which turned out rather well. We completed most of the sounds within the lesson which helped as, it meant most of the Foley sound could also be finished within that time and it re-shooting/sounding needed to occur we could time manage well.

Overall, I basically learnt some skills that will hopefully help us as a group to produce a great opening title sequence. The skills in which I learnt include: learning to work betters a team more cohesively, shooting skills as well as being able to film. In summary, I would say that what we produced worked well and if an opening title sequence with a fight scene as, a convention would be covered.