FINAL - Project: 'Marcus Jefferson's - My Inner World'

(Notes: A problem happened in the uploading process which meant that a while line comes down the right hand side of the screen a few times throughout the film. This was unintentional and is not on the original, something caused this to happen, as it was being uploaded and happened every time.)

Week Twelve.

For the final week of post production, it's been all about finishing up both the essay and film and getting everything completed to a high standard. Once I had the audio completed, I went through the film and finalised all the text and tweaked a bit of the colour and contrast throughout the film to make sure it's to the best that it can be. For the text I still feel that it may be a bit to revealing and let to much of the story unfold to early, loosing some of the surprise for the viewer. But the story needs to progress as the film does and I feel this was the only way I could get it across.

      Here are some shots of a few of my story boards I drew up in the early weeks, my scanner didn't work so I just took a picture of them on my phone. Here are some examples:

Story Board 1 - The Introduction.

Story Board 3 - Streets Sequence.

     Overall I feel the project this term has gone quite smoothly, only facing a few minor problems as the film progressed. I still feel the concept of the film is original and interesting. I have also learnt from some mistakes I've made this term and also from things I've done well to. I will take this on board and make sure my project next term is even better.

Week Eleven.

In the penultimate week leading up to the deadline, work has solely been focused on both post production and starting to evaluate my progress and reflect on my project so far in the essay. I also had a few last minute shots I had to capture, including some close ups and alternative angles for the in house sequence making it a bit more interesting.

    After I sorted out the audio last week through Soundbooth, I took all the audio, cut it up into each section of the film then placed it all into the Logic Pro file where I had already been messing around with different sound effects. I then fine tuned these, using just a fraction of a variety of different effects to create my sound.

Heres an example of the sound I've created. The clip consists of sounds of the toilet, the shower and then the washing machine. Effects I used to create these were a Channel EQ, Compressor, Autofilter, Space Designer, a Pitch Shifter and a Flanger. Take a listen.

 Householdsoundstest by Dynamik

Bare in mind this is still a work in progress and the sounds will probably be edited further before deadline. But I wanted to display a taster of what the sound is going to be like. To create the washing machine effect, along with adding a number of other plug ins, what I did was, with auto filter, I latched the lfo rate and then manipulated it while playing the sound back, I sped it up as the washing machine went faster and then slowed it down just as the machine did to stop. Creating the sort of helicopter sound which really intensified the noise of the washing machine.

As for editing the footage has all been put together and now needs some tweaking to get it right. The text also needs a lot work, as it needs to tell a story while not revealing to much about why your hearing like you are. This information will all be displayed in the last shot of the film.

Finally, I've been trying to create my project to fit with the surrealist movement of film, as this is quite an unordinary piece of work. While researching the topic I came across a great quote from Linda Willams in her book Figures of Desire: A theory and analysis of surrealist film. She described the key objective veyr well by stating that 'the main goal of all surrealist art is the liberation of the expressive powers of the unconscious from the inhibitory and rational powers of  the conscious mind.' (1981, p.41)