Project Update

Hannah, Courtney, and I finished all of our shooting on Wednesday. Due to the wind and the time of day, it was a difficult shoot, but we were able to get all the shots we needed. Even though it was sunny on Wednesday, the angle we were shooting from caused us to need to wait for cloud coverage. As a result, some color correction will be needed for a few scenes, but they are very brief shots, so it should not be too difficult. We are going to work on that portion together and use the processes we learned in class in order to make sure we do it correctly.

I have most of the project edited together as a rough cut and the only scenes missing are the two new scenes we shot on Wednesday. So I will be making our final edits to the rough cut and then editing it down even more today and tomorrow. Once I finish the editing process, Hannah, Courtney, and I are planning on getting together to work on final corrections, transitions, and color correction. I want to make sure we are all happy with the outcome since we have dedicated so much hard work and effort to the project, so that's why we will definitely have a group meeting before the project is due. We will also be working on all the necessary paper work and plan to be done by tomorrow night so that if anything goes wrong, we have Sunday to fix it. Overall we are on track to finish by tomorrow night, and as a group are very happy with our overall content and product.

Castaway Audio

I have never seen the movie Castaway  up until last night, but before that I remember learning about its sound track and how it was only composed of wind, water, and wood.  Up until actually seeing this movie I really didn't have any appreciation for this random fact that I knew.

However upon seeing the movie I have a new found appreciation.  I just assumed the audio was in the background and was no big deal, but now I see that for a good portion of the movie, background audio was the main source of the scenes.  Most of the scenes involve little to no dialogue and if there is any it is just Tom Hanks shouting at his friend Wilson, who is in fact a volley ball.

Most of the time it is very long shots meant to capture his emotion as he faces his situation or comes to a realization to his survival.  All of these long shots however are complimented by strong audio.  The constant sound of waves or the whistling of a strong wind really completes the movie.  It is the second half of a being that alone would be useless and unusable. So you have to give credit to the audio crew and the work that they put in to only use very basic natural sounds to create the environment in which we would spend the next hour of our time in.