Throughout our sound lectures I learned about how much sound adds to clips and a film overall. Intense sounds increase stimulation in scenes and make things stand out. This can be really helpful in stronger plots like a murder story, or horror film. The directions for this project were to create a film on a black screen only using sound effects and foleys. Four foleys had to be used, and a separate video showing the making of those foley sounds must be included. In the submission we also had to add in 2-3 screenshots of our editing timeline as a proof. A total of seven words could be used in the project (instrumental music was allowed). Me and my partner's approach during the brainstorming period was that we came up with the idea of making our film about going to a nail salon. Many sounds are around you when you are at the salon, so we chose that as our scenario. We made our planning on a word document, and we dissected each scene into multiple sound effects and added in some small conversation between the nail technician and the customer. Our outline of sounds helped us by being like a checklist, since we did some sounds at school and some at home, it helped us stay organized so we could get all the sounds recorded and into one file before editing. I used iMovie for my editing, on my phone. Overall, I think our films weak point was having certain sounds be hard to understand because of how quite they are. For example, the sound effect of brushing on the first coat of nail polish was hard to make, but by using the bristles of a makeup brush we made it as best as we could. To improve upon this, we could use scenes with stronger sounds so effects can be heard more clearly. Our stronger points in this film are our blending of sounds, an example being the mix of the customer initially walking in, music playing and the customer searching through the bottles for a color. It set the scene well and helped bring in a small conversation and started off the appointment.
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