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Related to LO3
Woman in black case study.
To achieve LO3 i wanted to look at a similar sounding film on a larger scale and what their sound team consisted with. Below is a screen shot from IMDB of the sound department crew names and roles.
As it can be seen, ‘Woman In Black’ had around 22 people in their sound department. This included around 4-5 location sound people, including mixers and boom operators, 3 rerecording mixers and a range of sound editors, foley editors etc. They also have a supervising sound editor who would be in charge overall and assistant sound director. These role match what was previously mentioned in the roles of each.
Related to LO1 and LO2
After finishing the film i sent a client feedback form to the director to show if i achieved my first 2 learning outcomes. The results to the form are as followed.
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How professional was he to work with during the shooting process?
As professional I would have wanted him.
Were you Happy with him throughout the shooting process?
yes, very good quality of work. Pleasure to be around
Anything that could of been improved?
The sound log (but i understand there should have been someone helping him so i don’t mind at all)
Things he did well?
Good knowledge of what he needed to do
good foley sound and mixing too
Were you happy with him throughout this process?
yes
How professional was he to work with during the post production process?
very professional, worked very hard
Things he did well?
Foley work in such a small amount of time
Are you happy with the finished product? State Why
High quality sound like we intended
Out of 10 what would you give the overall product?
9/10
How good was the communication between you and Jack throughout the process?
very good clear use of communication Not information overall during busy times kept information vital
Would you work with him again?
yes
Related to LO2
The original deadline i was given was the 12th but because of some issues i was given until the 13th, in which the Media group visited my house to pick up the finished and mixed version. My living room wasn’t the best place to screening a film because of the background noises from the road at the front and the nature out the back. However was limited to this because of the sound theatre being fully booked. We watch the film and they were all happy with it. However because of the listening environment i suggested they re-listen to it in a quieter environment and to talk to me if there was any issues with the mix or balance of audio.
They then got back to me later on with some more feedback. The director said the film balance was very good, however needed to be played full volume with speakers plugged in to hear it. Therefore i turned up the master fader up slightly and slightly tweaked the mix in order for it to sound a bit louder. And re met the group in the edit suits the next day.
Related to LO2
On the 10th of December, my plan was to finish a draft mix of the whole film. I still needed to do slight bits of editing. However I organised a meeting with the director to show him a draft of the soundtrack. This was sent to him before the meeting, and the media production group watched it along side with the music that was composed by Matt Jones. Therefore the director was prepared for the meeting and cold give me instant feedback when running through the film.
However he said that he was really happy with it so far and there was only a few slight changes needed to be made. This was mainly issues with volume, e.g. the wheelchair falling in to the bush, and the sound of the crickets in the night scene, in which i took into account and modifiers as suggested. The other thing was the sound of the crows in the last scene. The crow were originally randomly places to give ha atmosphere a dark feeling. The director said he liked the sound but they sounded like they were being played too often seemed like every time the actors finished talking the sound of a crow would be heard. Therefore i roomed some of the sounds to make it less like that. Apart from that the director said he was happy with how it sounded.