Wild Card Crew Position

I was assigned director for the wild card project. At first, I was pretty overwhelmed because this project allows for more creativity - which is great - but I knew it would be hard to come up with a final idea. We ended up deciding to do an experimental narrative, and I'm pretty excited to make it happen. After the last project, I realized that I really like making experimental films so I'm super excited about that aspect of our project. I don't have much experience for narrative, but I'm glad I get to get more practice by working on a narrative project as well. I think I have a solid vision for the film and our group is cooperating really well; we seem to have the same or complementary ideas.
I'm especially excited about the dream sequence/alternate reality shots in our film. We're thinking of using filters and maybe some slow-motion shots to get the dreamy, otherworldly feeling. Overall, I'm very excited about this project and finally being director, I'm determined to make it my best one yet.

Wild Card

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Editing 3B

I enjoyed editing 3b much more than I thought I would. I didn't really have much experience using Premiere or working with sound, but once I tried it I got the hang of it and it was actually really fun. The only problem we ran into is, when Troy was editing, Premiere unexpectedly closed twice, causing our project to be lost. In the future, we can avoid this by utilizing the auto save feature.
I found it really fun to listen to the sounds and put random ones together, layer them, speed them up, etc. I think manipulating sound made the visuals so interesting, especially making some sounds sound like something completely different. Since we did two soundscapes, it was a little tricky making the audio coordinate with both, but I ended up loving both of our parts. We put a lot of time into editing and overall, I'm extremely happy with the outcome. This was probably my favorite project thus far, which is funny because I thought it would be my least favorite. After editing, I feel more comfortable using Premiere and I even feel inspired to do more experimental and sound work.

Recording Sound

My group met Monday and Wednesday to record some sounds and overall it went well. It was really fun recording and trying to make sounds interesting; I think the dialogue clips ended up being rather funny and I'm excited to see how they're used. It was awesome to use such seemingly insignificant, everyday objects and then hear the sounds that came from them. I feel like sound is something very easily disregarded and this project helped me notice the sounds around me and what it adds to life in general. My favorite clip is probably the sound of a rubber band being flicked, it makes kind of an interesting beat and sounds really cool on the h4n. I also thought it was cool how some sounds that were made with objects mimicked the sounds of things like someone's footsteps, grinding metal, etc. I think a lot of the sounds can be interpreted by the listener and I'm interested in hearing how people use them.