How I Plan to Conquer Sounds and Location!

 Hello Blog!!

Hannah again :)

I have missed you all since my last post yesterday regarding my partner Sabrina and I's genre topic and our plan on how to bring our story to life.  Now that you know the genre we are choosing (sport's drama), let's get down to detail on how we are going to make this film under our time crunch.

This is the first week since our assignment was prompted to us by our teacher.  There have been some hiccups in the brainstorming process as we have explored rom coms, sports dramas, and even teenage coming of age films.  After much research and Google Doc collaborations, we have landed on a sports drama introduction idea about a track athlete using her sport as an escape from the harsh reality of her mundane/ harsh life.  In order to make this film introduction come to life, my partner and I started thinking of locations to film.  Of course, we came up with the track at our school.  The track team is not in season right now which is beneficial to us because it means fewer people on the track.  My partner and I are planning on taking a day towards the end of next week to start venturing around the track. We will check to light, the possibility of the stadium in the background, places where we can get an establishing shot, etc.  

This upcoming Wednesday, my partner and I will create a storyboard for our project.  We are planning on using our time in class and if we are not finished we will use our personal time outside of school to get this done. This upcoming week, we MUST finish our storyboard so we stay on schedule.  

In case you do not know what a storyboard is, here is one we created from a previous film project that Sabrina and I both worked on:

As well, for this project, we have many sound effects that need to be present in our film introduction in order to embody and express drive, determination, and resilience.  The audience needs to feel the struggle from the track athlete working through all these emotions on the track.  Sounds such as heavy breathing, feet running on the track, sweat dripping, muffled sounds from clips in the past.  These are all sound like may need to be covered on voice memos instead of live outside in order to play over the visuals used in the intro.  In regards to sound, since we will be showing clips from the track athlete's past to show the struggle and escape track gives her, we will insert muffled sounds/arguments into these clips of the past to further express the thoughts of the athlete as she is running. 

There are foley sound websites that allow you to buy foley track sounds however, my partner and I do not think these sounds are as great because they show the noise of an entire track meet when really we just want to hone in on the individual track star's breathing and body noises as she runs on the track by herself.  The focus is more on the individual main character instead of an entire audience and track team.  

One example website of foley sounds that we want to stay away from are:

https://www.audiomicro.com/sound-effects/sports/track-and-field

That is all for today!

Hannah signing off✌🏻