Burning the disk

 

Everything is now finished in the production element of our film. We just checked that everything was in order and then showed the final version to our teacher just to make sure that it was at the kind of quality that we wanted it to be at. We also showed some of our other classmates to get some feedback on it. We recived positive feedback from both our teacher and classmates so we decided that we were ready to burn the video to a disk ready to hand in. 

After Me and sam brieflly went outside to play a small part in one of our friends media projects, we came back in and began burning the disk ready to hand in to our teacher.

We were really pleased until we attempted to play the disk in another computer and realised that it didn’t work. We consulted Micheal, our media technician who said that he would look into the problem. Later today we returned and it turns oput the the disk only doesn’t work if you try and play the file from the disk in quicktime, in a DVD Player or the Computers DVD playing programme it works fine.

Creating the Sound Track – 1

With the final cut of our opening sequence ready to go I began work on the sound track. For this I used another apple programme, Logic Express 9. I decided to use this programme because it is a professional level audio editing software package. It is also a product that I use almost everyday in my other AS/BTEC courses, so i am very familiar with it and all of its functions. I also knew that it has a feature that allows a video to be put in on a video track so that it is easy to sync music to video, a feature that would prove extremely useful to me.

I began the process of creating the soundtrack by using an Alesis IO2 USB Audio interface which is very useful for plugging in microphones as well as Direct Inputting guitars and bass. I began by direct inputting a guitar and messing around with some note patterns.

I decided there was one that I liked so I decided to build the beginnings of the sound track around that. I found that it sounded good with a tape delay insert (effect slot insert) so I used that. It was in E minor so I played on another track a straight E minor chord behind it to build up the texture. This was beginning to sound good so I decided to add a new layer of guitar playing every 4 bars, creating the effect of the music building up. As the video got to the heroin scene I decided that I wanted the build up to increase dramatically so I added a guitar with distortion playing extremely fast on one high note that was slowly bent up, so that it started sounding good with the rest of the music but then as the situation became more and more dire it began to clash and sound dissonant. I then decided to create a cracking noise that accompanied the flashes that signified the injection. To do this I used a midi keyboard with an electric piano sound that I completely messed with using a bit-crusher effect, making the sound harsh and whip like. I decided that I wanted the same kind of noise but less harsh right at the begging of the sequence to make it seem like he is waking up. For this I just duplicated the track and toned down the effect and then played a different note in. I then changed the volumes so that the noise fades in. With all this I then decided that this track would benefit from a kind of synth that comes in as he takes the cocaine the second time, so I used a pre programmed synth that sounded good, that played it in at that point, but then held the note so that when all the layers of music stop as he passes out the synths can be heard droning through the background.