Sound Production - Pictures

Location - Bridge
Sound - Lift closing and Opening and we can hear voice saying Lift going down

Location - Bridge
Sound - This sound noise of closing mini doors twice.

Location - Media floor
Sound - This is a sound of someone closing the doors

Location - Media area
Sound - this is a sound of a printer how it printing something or photocopying

Location - Media area
Sound - this is a sound of looker and the cage which someone want to open.

Location - PE area
Sound - This sound represents of food machine and someone try to type in on the screen a number and you can hear a beeping sound

Location - Media area
Sound - this is a sound of a key and the chain

Location - Media area
Sound - this is a sound of someone closing a zip up and down

Location - Media Area
Sound - this is a sound of someone making squeals 3 or 5 times

Location - Media area
Sound - This is a sound of someone walking and you can hear a footsteps

Morvelisa's Critical Approaches - The Lift - Marc Isaac's

The Lift

This short film documentary which is call "The Lift" was released in 2001 by the British director and cinematographer Marc Isaacs, the film was made in UK in typical english tower in East London but the date of released was in March 2003 in USA.
Marc Isaacs has made more than 10 creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 since 2001, and his documentary that he made which was "The Lift". The Royal Television Society and his work has won Grierson, RTS, and BAFTA awards, as well as an abundance of international film festival prizes. The film exuded poetic value and painted a simple, profound portrait of the human condition. In 2006 he had a retrospective at the prestigious Lussas Documentary film festival in France and his work has been included in numerous documentary books and academic studies, and because of his work and filming the documentaries people learn about him and how he is very creative.  

The Purpose was less clear due to absence of voice over and plus his documentary was structure, he use of Cutaway,shots for example Fly (alive/ dead),the lift shaft. Mostly he used establishing shots(high rised flat),how the camera work it look very naturalistic from Marc point of view, also what he included that he show the close-ups odd face expression of people who use the lift

The quotes of his documentaries which he says about his own work is "They are predetermined to a large extent because they are conceived along with the idea and integrated during the shooting, but aesthetic decisions are also fully realised during the editing. Every film needs to have a strong aesthetic element. It is the film’s visual world which carries just as much meaning as the stories told verbally" He want to show his documentaries clear as possible to understand. Marc Isaac's documentaries give a clear view that his films are targeted mostly at adults at age 18+ and above because the questions that he ask in documentary give a clear clue that the film is targeted at adults.

The another of his documentaries which is Outside the Court and this short documentry was was made in 2011 and what in this short documentary he want to tell as is that he spend 3 months talking to the people who were coming in and out. Whilst waiting for their cases to be heard they reveal their lives, what was interesting that he ask 2 or 3 times about if they think that they are clear out of any criminal or offences, and he ask them how was inside, and of the people was saying that everything is secured and there is nothing that they going to miss because they got fences and I am think that this short documentary was aim at adults again becasue it show how the life is difficult if you done something bad and you can't move the time backwards and this court can caring on for months or years.

 - How do you feel the issue (s) it addresses may have impacted on the above?

Audience Profile - Lesson 4 Homework

Audience Profile 1 - Bowling for Columbine

Name: JAMES PARK

Age: 25.

Gender: MALE

Ethnicity: White American

Educational background: Doctor

Location: United States

Martial Status: Married

Occupation: Critical CARE

Income: $281,000 a year

Favourite TV programme: Medical programs and surgeries

Demographic:  A - Higher managerial and professional

Religion: Christian

Interests: He like to play football and watch TV

Nationality: American


Bowling for Columbine I felt that the film is fit for more of a mainstream audience because the documentary's purpose was to spread awareness about gun violence in United States and how easy it is to get a weapon in some states, also a mainstream audience because it has been released outside the country that it was created in to show other people for example in Europe how the violence and criminal are getting worse, in terms of age group I will say 16+ or over due to again the sensitivity of the controversial subject of violence and gun fire. Moore was able to widen his target audience by having his film shown not only at film festivals but also on a global scale which his documentary will be recognize every where and Michael Moore's viewpoint as he's openly mocking Americas gun policy and this is not right he want to get rid of violence by making this documentry and open eyes to all people in U.S

Audience Profile 2 - Lift

Name - Alex Smith

Age - 25.

Gender - Female.

Ethnicity - White British 

Educational Background - Studying Film, TV and Broadcasting at Ravensbourne University in London.

Location - London Bridge, Greater London.

Marital Status - Single.

Occupation - Full time job in BBC.

Income - £8.57 per hour.

Favourite TV programme - Friends.

Demographic - C2 - Skilled manual workers

Religion - Christian 

Interests - Running, tennis, fashion, music, painting and sketching.

Nationality -British. 


The Lift documentary in terms of what conventions were used to target certain audiences, in my conclusion that the target audience can be described and niche because the reason being the documentary was focuses of the lives of residents living in a flat in East London. In The Lift, this short documentary was aimed at a much older audience than it was in the documentary Bowling for Columbine, but the documentary important topics were discussed by Marc Isaacs such as one of the residents past and how he was about to cope with it, the target audience for this film would be that of an older audience. Marc Isaac looking through his style of directing and editing it's shown the main focus of his projects are on the people not himself which is why he makes on screen appearances infrequently in his documentaries and he want to direct camera at audience only.

Sound Production - Recording Dialogue - SETUP

Location

The dialogue recorded on location, which in most cases is the project’s only source of dialogue in post-production, not always recorded with correct technique or equipment's , which results in poor audio quality or create noise background or the voice-over have been not record correct.

My studio - Setup 

This room will consist of two wooden doors which will be gap between them to stop the noise being heard in the recording studio. 

Room Acoustics - This shows how the sound travel around the room and how is reflected from the wall to your ear. 

To reduce or prevent room acoustic different materials such as foam, double layering.
Foam absorbs sound around the room which leads to less reflection.  

Triple glazed windows will be used to minimised the sound

Equipment
For equipment's you will need dynamic microphone, but firstly you need to know what the best microphone to pick To record high-quality location sound the right type of microphone must be used: ultra-directional for external locations, directional (shorter) for interiors, and non-directional for cramped interiors. Shotgun mic outdoors, hyper-cardoid indoors or in a location with a lot of reflections - Schoeps MK41

Headphones -There are some great professional quality headphones styled and suited for recording studios. There are fewer suited for location use. Choose a location headphone for its low weight, high strength, comfort and extended frequency response

Mixers -The design of these portable audio mixers has been driven by the requirements of professionals in film, TV news, documentary, radio, effects recording, and music production. As a consequence, they are the only range PROKIT recommends.


Recorders - They record to removable Compact Flash or external FireWire drives. Another 2 track, as well as a 4 track recorder model, records to an internal 40 GB hard drive


Sound Accessories - If you need replacement windshields and clips, XLR cables, replacement lapel microphones, Undercovers, Overcovers

Monitors - You need the software to edit the sound track, also the screens to see the film footage to see when to record the sound in time.

Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine

The Bowling for Columbine is a American documentary film made in 2002 and it was written, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore. Michael Moore was born 23^rd of April in 1954 his full name is (Michael Francis Moore) , he is an American filmmaker, author, social critic, and political activist, also Moore's written and cinematic works criticize globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership which the previous president of USA was Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the main things which happened long time ago and he written „the Iraq War”, also the American health care system which is very bad and capitalism.

The film is focusing on main causes for the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and other acts of violence with guns, where in America you can buy weapons everywhere and bullets in every supermarket in every states. Michael Moore focuses on the background and environment in which the massacre took place and he is showing, tragedy, interviews with teachers and students and he showing the reactions of people how they react on the situation which happened long time ago and it show that they scare and they been praying to survive. Moore also including the South Park co-creator Matt Stone, the National Rifle Association's then-president Charlton Heston and he seeks to explain why the Columbine massacre occurred and why the United States' violent crime rate and it show that the crime in U.S grow with every year.

What was interesting that in United States you can get free gun for opening a bank account, in a early scene we can see a bank in Michigan that gives customers a free hunting rifle when they make a deposit of a certain size into a time deposit account, and he explains that every American person should have a gun to be safer at home.

Moore played a great role in his documentary film and succeed in spurring viewers to think more about the nature of violence of American; but as a gate-keeper with tendentious and aggressive approach in his documentary film, all the communication that he did seemed symbolic and some sort of individual heroic, hardly add up to a rational approach or real answer to the issue.

Michael Moore’s film enjoys a commercial success: with a budget of only $4,000,000, it grossed $40,000,000 worldwide, including $21,575,207 in the United States. It also broke box office records internationally, becoming the highest-grossing documentary in the U.K. This documentary was successful in particular geographical areas such as in Germany, Greece, Australia, Spain and United Kingdom because the total gross went over $1,000,000 and this was very successful because the film show United States in different angle and how it look like now and how the life is going on there.

I feel the issue of a bowling for columbine it show the United States in angle of weapon and crime and this is addressed to people who are young and how to know about the real life in America. The interview with Michael Moore saying about the Anti-American, and he is saying that he is an anti-American and “very pro-American you there’s nothing, there’s nothing more to do for you country, then to dissent when you feel that there is a need to send to speak out against things you see that Iran and odd and to give people opportunity to laugh had are at their own foibles” Michael Moore, the another topic which is involved in the film which he was interviewing Charlton Heston and the actor said that the problem is with Americans mixed ethnicity, Moore said that “non-aligned I don’t do vision are British television everything you see is exactly as it happened and take to there’s no reaction thers’s no, you know bakery might have seen European documentaries do this home every fact in the film is true but the film has my point of view” also Moore want to show and believe that is shooting and crime in violence in the country.

I think that the trailer show that the group of people who been targeted are children and teenagers because the film trailer says that the shooting games make the children a monster or the killers and everything is caused by the video games and game make young people in the future as the killers.

Sound Production - Sound Production for films

Titanic Boat scenes  

This short clip showing a scene how the main character try to survive and this is Diagetic    

Dialect - In dialect of this short film are people speaks they are shooting and also music create the tense, also as a audience you can feel the emotions and create the fear.

Sound effects - whistle sound, water splashing, the sound of whistle someone blowing it, the sounds when someone try to swim and also you can hear someone breathing, someone pain and how she is afraid of death.

Music - The music is very sad and it creates the tense but when is coming to fast action music speed up.  

Asteric and Obelix 

This is the short scene showing Asterix and Obelix trying to fight the army of Cezar and this is Diagetic sound because you can hear the different voices and commands of a army and leaders. Sound effects which you can hear is bangs of weapons and different guns, people talking and screaming, the sound of loudness footsteps, trumpet giving instruction what to do and how he screams at them, music which is used is very fast and it gives us the fast tempo of army fighting, the tension speed up because of the music.

X-Men 3 Battle

Dialect - The person is commanding all the time in the battle and telling them what to do, also the war is very stereotypical and the examples you can hear very deep voice make confident the stereotypical voice, the sound effect are very newest because you can hear the sound of wind, bangs or any explosion, because it show the superpowers of heroes, but it sound it look very good,

Music, the music in this film speed up with a every second with every hit or punch, this music give lot of tense to the audience, and I feel this music is very good because it compares with the film and it fits to the action which is going on.

This is a a diagetic sound because you can hear the sounds how people speaking and givings the commands.

Sound Production - Dynamic Mics X3

PG58 Dynamic vocal Microphones                              

Specification: 

Dynamic (moving coil)

Polar Pattern: Cardioid 

Freq. Response: 60Hz - 15Khz

Sensitivity: (1Khz)  - 53 dbV/PA, 2,2 mV/pPA

The microphone company SHURE
The response for microphone frequency is curve

Cost: 90 to 130 pounds

Shure PG52 Cardioid Dynamic Kick Drum Microphone                                                                                                                      Specification: 

Dynamic (moving coil)

Polar Pattern: Cardioid
Frequency Response 30 to 13,000Hz
Sensitivity: -55dBV/PA (1,8) 1 Pascal = 94dB SPL

   Shure SM58 Microphone                                                                  Specification: Dynamic Microphone                                                P: Cardioid                                                                                          Freq response: 50Hz - 15Khz, Sensitivity 1kHz/54dbv/PA/1,8mvPA                                              

Sound Production - What is Sound for films production

Sound effects often made by sound production company often made up using different layers of sound, sounds design is vital for films and TV. The equipment's which are use to create the sounds are; microphones to recorded, headphones to listen what you have record, the speakers or monitor with the audio visual software, some company they using sound effects from library.

The recording companies, when they planing to record the sound effects for film, they have to watch the footage and record in time with the video footage.

The recording companies listen to audio mix on various playback system analyse mix, any various audio software can be used although( Logic are industry standard) 

Amplitude is the objective measurement of the degree of change (positive or negative) in atmospheric pressure (the compression and rarefaction of air molecules) caused by sound waves. 

Sounds with greater amplitude will produce greater changes in atmospheric pressure from high pressure to low pressure.

Sound Production - What is sound?

All the sounds are vibrations traveling through the air as sounds waves Sound  waves are caused by the the vibrations of objects and radiate outward from their source in all directions and the vibrations compresses the surrounding air molecules 

The sound waves are measured in milliseconds and also is the measured by Db.







Frequency

Frequency is the rate, or number of times per second, that a sound wave cycles from positive to negative to positive again. Frequency is measured in cycles hertz (Hz). 

Amplitude 

Amplitude refers to the strength of a sound wave, which the human ear interprets as 
volume or loudness.