Actual Recording List 1

1. alarm

2. bad smoking

3. better hairspray 

4. cutlery

5.door closing/key turning/getting in lift

6.filling up kettle

7.footsteps down corridor

8.GHD sound

9.hairspray

10.kettle boiling

11.kettle top

12.mouse footsteps

13.oh my god no 

14. heard something said

15. perfume

16. plug plugged

17. pouring kettle

18. rythmic squeaking

19. shower then toilet

20. shower then toilet

21.sparking up & smoking

22. stereo sound effect 

23. the zip

24.turning on kettle

25. window sound 

26. yawn 

Planning

Initial Planning

this is a list of what we initially planned to record:
 - bed squeaking
 - alarm
 - tossing/ turning of bed covers
 - yawn
 - sigh
 - putting kettle on
 - toilet flushing
 - brushing of teeth
 - shower running
 - hairdryer
 - GHD sound
 - hairspray can
 - toaster
 - kettle
 - sounds of speading butter
 - biting into toast
 - getting dressed
 - rustling clothes
 - putting on clothes
 - slamming door
 - key turning in lock
 - large gust of wind

Ideas

We roughly considered a number of ideas and then settled on one.

- A persons idea of paradise, all the sounds that would surround that person. For example one persons paradise could have been a meadow and all the sounds that surround it.

- A Zoo, it would have been interesting to do a tour as if the person was visually impaired to make the  audience realise how space appears to someone who can only imagine space and hear images.

 - A short story about a social problem

Our Idea
In the end we decided on the idea of "a day in the life of"
It will be a reflection of a person and the way in which they spend their day. In order to develop this idea I got ready one morning and Mari-Anne listened to all the sounds that occurred whilst i got reaady. After doing this we discovered that we were just going to do the morning sounds and the bubble of space that surrounded the character in a morning as it is an exciting part fo the day and could represent fresh life and positive vibes.

CMP Audio Project

For this project Mari-Anne and I decided to make our 3 minute audio file expressing a Sense Of Space, about a morning in the life of average inidivual. It will contain all the sounds that you would hear whilst getting ready in a morning. We hope to connect with the audience on a personal basis as each sound could be stereotypical of a persons early morning routine.

Pre-Production

Once we had executed all our research we then put together a short list of locations which included:
- The Old Nags Head Inn
- The Post Office
- The Penny Pot Cafe
- The Ramblers Inn

We contacted each of the above to ask for permission and all of them agreed after we then rang them back to give them a rough time that we would be visiting them at.

We then went on to draw up a Shot List and Inventory of the Kit.

Shot List

1. Medium Shot; following rambler
2. OTS; rambler walking
3. POv of rambler;walking through edale
4. Medium CU; rambler; from front
5. Wide shot; rambler heads towards the hills
6. Wide hot x 3;edale
7. Medium CU x 3;actions of residents
8. CU x 3; actions of residents
9. Insert Shots

Inventory of Kit

• Camera/Tripod
• apes
• Dolly
• Rain Cover
• Cast (Rambler)
• Costume
• Props (costume, map,walking gear,rucksack)

Research for Edale

We did lots of online research, Alex had never visited Edale before but I had some knowledge of edale and had ridden on horseback some the routes and trails shown on an OS map. However we looked at various wesbistes for different information
including:

- http://www.edale-valley.co.uk/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edale
- http://www.yha.org.uk/find-accommodation/peak-district-sherwood/hostels/Edale/index.aspx
- http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/edl/details.html
- http://www.derbyshireuk.net/edale.html
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/353

from these websites we took information such as:
- When trains would be going through Edale so we could time filming them from a good location
- A look at the various facilities that were available to us
- Different locations that could potentially be open for to us to film in/at
- What the weather was going to be like for the day so we could prepare ourselves, our actor and the equipment

one tool that was very helpful to us was the google maps street view becuase then we cold begin to think about the types of shots and the camera angles we wanted to use.



Edale - Portait of Place Project

For this assignment i worked with Alex Withers and we talked over a couple of ideas but quickly settled on one idea which basically was the following:

A rambler arrives in edale and the camera follows them through the village, exploring and capturing small glimpses of everyday life and then moves from the village to explore the big open space that is the Hope Valley. Great contrast is depicted from the great outdoors to the inside cafes and pubs.

Initially the idea was to just show the residents however we decided to bring an actress in so that we could achieve the shots we wanted and build a narrative. We were specific about costume and it was clear the chararcter was a rambler as she was wearing waterproof trousers, coat and rucksack.

Analysing Docu-Shorts

When analysing the short films we used a series of questions in order to distinguish whether we liked the films or not, what effects we found effective and what themes were coming through.
1. Identify the themes of the film, what were the directors primary aims?
2. Describe what you consider to be the main focus?
3. Did you like/dislike the film and why?
4. Was the film successful/unsuccessful in dealing with its subject matter and why?


Steel Homes, Eva Weber 2008



This is a still taken from the short "Steel Homes" the spider diargram below shows the analysis that I interpreted.

this all brings about the

Strange Lights 2010 Joe King & Rosie Pedlow

This was a different kind of Docu Short as it featured pretty much no script or speaking at all apart from the non diagetic sound after which was talking on the radio

PaperBoys Mike Mills 2001

This was an american short about Paperboys in america i liked it and felt it was interesting,



below is my analysis this is in more detail this time:

Documentary Experimental Approaches

The spider diagram below explains what the class definition of a documentary was. Part of this opinion and definition changed after we watched a number of short Docu-Films.