SOUNDTRACK PRODUCTION - 10 week movie "Runaway"

Our single camera production is about a homeless girls'survival on the streets, rather than making a normal short film with dialogue we decided to test ourselves and produce a silent film. As this is a subject that needs awareness and has a lot of emotion attatched to it, we knew we could use sound creatively and effetively to display these emotions.

We have chosen to add a non-diegetic backing track which runs almost entirely throughout the film to set the mood and give it ambience. We have cut, looped and dipped it in parts so that it fits in with each scene. This track is called Untitled 3 by Sigur Ros (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeuvegBZFuM) It fits the mood we were trying to achieve perfectly but was shorter than our desired length. We cut it at a certain point and looped it in reverese as we wanted to give it a proffesional look and didnt want it to suddenly cut out then start again. We were also careful that by making a silent film with a backing track that we didnt want it to look like a music video or take the easy option by using the track as it is so we carefully edited it.

The first scene in the short is a girl having an argument with her mum, argument scenes are usually hard to make tracks for because of the emotion has to display to the audience. Especially as ours has no dialogue sound, we knew we had to decide this carefully, at first we though we might have a more heavier, more upbeat, fierce song to mirror the emotion but instead we decided that our original track had a really good effect because we loved the way it contrasted with the visuals.

When filming we recorded a variety of fowley diegetic sounds such as cars passing, wind and footsteps. We also used sounds from SoundTrack Pro such as doors shutting, breathing and coughing which required a more professional sound. We also have titles throughout displaying the day and emotion so when each title appeared we wanted a non-diegetic sound for added effect. We chose a sound called ‘Auto door garage’ in Soundtrack pro and repeated it twice for these titles. For one particular scene we wanted to have drum and bass style music that sounded like it was coming from another room. We found a track from youtube and imported it into SoundTrack Pro where we added distortion and reverb layers to make it sound like it was coming from another room.

Script Annotated with Sound Track Ideas:

Rough Cut in SoundTrack Pro:

 

 

Editing Backing Track:

Final Cut in SoundTrack Pro:

 

 

Final Cutin Final Cut Pro: 

Music Spotting Log: 

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PRODUCTION UPDATE - 10 week movie "Runaway"

Rough Cut:

Final Soundtrack:

Final Cut: 

Link to to final cut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNx2izdo8Qk

CALL SHEET -10 week movie "Runaway"

By Aimee Lister

12/12/13

Scenes 1-3

SHOOTING SCHEDULE - 10 week movie "Runaway"

By Aimee Lister

Scenes 1-10

dates 11/11/13 - 12/12/13

RISK ASSESSMENT - 10 week movie "Runaway"

By Aimee Lister

"Runaway"

Loanach, Chestnut Farm Drive, Althorne 

12/12/13 - 3 hours 

Molly Noble 

Dawn Lister 

Liam Meade 

Paige Archer 

Aimee Lister 

SHOT LIST - 10 week movie "Runaway"

 

By Aimee Lister

Scenes 1-3

scenes 7-9

scenes 4-6

PROPOSAL - 10 week movie "Runaway"

Proposal

Our short film is a story of a girl who runs away from home, showing what she is faced with when leaving home and taking to the streets. Our film approaches different issues people are faced with when living on the streets, and we show each of these issues in different scenes. Separated like chapters, we made a list of issues we wanted to approach being; anger, neglection, desperation, shame, hunger, greed, isolation, determination, hopelessness and exhaustion.

We wanted to translate her emotion through using subtitles, and completely removing all dialogue. Her thoughts and feelings will be explained through on screen text as the film progresses. We will still be using diegetic sound, created through foley, soundtrack pro and using the microphone on set. We are taking an artistic risk by eliminating dialogue but we believe it will create a more personal and honest connection with the character and audience.

By Molly Noble

 

We are targeting our film at mainly adolescents, since we want our film to create awareness of the struggles which comes from leaving home. We also think the editing techniques and filming we’ve used will appeal to aspiring filmmakers like ourselves. Since it is very experimental, artistic, and abstract.

We think if we were to sell our programme to a channel its would be E4. Since our target audience is a very similar range to theirs. And our film does have similarity to the issues approached in some of their programmes for example skins.

We plan to market our short film by creating posters, which we will place around colleges, schools, bus stops accessible locations for our target audience, being adolescents. We also want to create a viral marketing campaign, pop ups which will appear on popular sites such as facebook, twitter and youtube, commonly used by our main target audience. We also want to appeal to have our viral campaign on websites such as ‘grolsch film works’ a website which celebrates creative film.

TEST SHOOT LINK - 10 week movie "Runaway"

Test Shoot Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLe4lg6ntgo

SHOOT UPDATE 12/12/13 - 10 week movie "Runaway"

12/12/13 - Fourth shoot

Location: Lonach, Chestnut Farm Drive, Althorne
Scene: Argument with mum
Actors: Molly Noble, Dawn Lister

Location: Lonach, Chestnut Farm Drive, Althorne
Scene: Girl packing bag
Actors: Molly Noble

Location: Station Hill, Althorne
Scene: Walking and trying to hitch hike
Actors: Molly Noble

Overview: For this shoot we used a different camera, we used a Canon DSLR 600D, this was different to using our sony and canon camcorders. We really preferred this camera, it gave a better more professional look and was easier to use. We got a more steady shot because it was smaller and it is also easier to transport. It is also simpler to edit the footage because you can just import it rather than log and capturing it. We feel we had a better shoot than previous days because of the camera and that we her happier with the footage we shot, we would definitely use this camera again. Most of our scenes on this shot were also inside which made lighting, sound and any previous weather problems we had easier to solve.

STORYBOARD SCENE 7 - 10 week movie "Runaway"

By Paige Archer

STORYBOARD SCENE 3 - 10 week movie "Runaway"

By Paige Archer

BUDGET - 10 week movie "Runaway"

By Aimee Lister 

Production: "RUNAWAY"

Prepared by: PALM PRODUCTIONS Date: 11/12/13

Length of Film / Programme: 6 minutes

	Budget	Actual
Script & Rights	0.00	0.00
Producer’s Unit	0.00	0.00
Director’s Unit	0.00	0.00
Talent	0.00	0.00
Above the Line Total	£0.00	£0.00
Extra Talent	0.00	0.00
Talent Expenses	0.00	0.00
Casting & Rehearsal	0.00	0.00
Production Staff	0.00	0.00
Art Department	0.00	0.00
Set Department	0.00	0.00
Prop Department	0.00	0.00
Special Effects	0.00	0.00
Wardrobe Department	£50	£45
Hair & Make-up	0.00	0.00
Still Photography	0.00	0.00
Camera Department	0.00	0.00
Sound Department	0.00	0.00
Lighting Department	0.00	0.00
Grip Department	0.00	0.00
Transportation	£30	£30
Crew Expenses	0.00	0.00
Location Expenses	0.00	0.00
Location Office	0.00	0.00
Film & Lab / Tape Stock	0.00	0.00
Production Total	£80.00	£75.00
Film Editing	0.00	0.00
Video Editing	0.00	0.00
Titles	0.00	0.00
Music	0.00	0.00
Post production Sound	0.00	0.00
Digital Video Post Production	0.00	0.00
Film & Lab Post Production	0.00	0.00
Tape stock / DVDs	£5	£5
Post Production Total	£5.00	£5.00
Insurance	0.00	0.00
Office Expenses	0.00	0.00
Fund-raising Expenses	0.00	0.00
Distribution	0.00	0.00
Contingency	0.00	0.00
Overhead Total	£0.00	£0.00
Grand Total	£85.00	£80.00