Class 4 Lecture Summary

Sounds, play an important role in telling a story, it creates the mood and helps convey the emotion at that point in time to the audience. Music is a loose description of this background sound because of the sound even though played by an instrument rarely follows the rules of song composition and sometimes these sounds may not be produced by an instrument at all, it could be a sound effect produced by something in the story e.g. footsteps, creaking on a wooden floor, gunshots and the ricochet of the bullet on a surface near the protagonist. All these effects fall under the category of scoring and sound design. A music composer with an understanding of the emotional effect of sound s responsible for the scoring film and the changing mood of the story, the sound designer is responsible for the non-music sound effects, to create an audio effects in the film. A foley artist does a different job where he creates sounds not captured in the filming process or replaces sound captured in the filming process. A boom operator captures the dialogue between actors on the screen. A Sound Engineer will mix the audio and put it all together. Assignment 4 (due October 1) is to create an animatic of the "Condom Use Story" using sounds to communicate moods and timing of the images from the storyboard. There will be marks added for the recording and placement of dialogue in the piece. Grading will be based on: Meeting the deadline, Creativity of Content, Adherence to theme using sound, Addition of recorded dialogue. PREFERABLY AS A QUICKTIME MOV FILE.

The second half of the class we discussed the different roles involved in video production:

Client: Wants a story told
Producer: Responsible for getting the story told, sometimes will operate as a writer in telling the story:

Director: responsible for the Performance Style of the Story on Film

Actors: perform as Characters within the story

Casting Director: responsible for the selection of the actors to play the characters in the story

Director of Photography: Responsible for how the scenes are composed and shot.

Production Designer: Is responsible for set/Location Design, usually some architecture/sculpting background.

Art Director: Responsible for the details and the look of the set, elements in the shot it all looks when the actors are in the shot.

Stylist: The stylist is responsible for the look of the actors and will supervise, hair/makeup/wardrobe personnel

Lighting Director: If a DP requires it, a lighting director will solve complex lighting issues.

Gaffer: Responsible for electrical considerations related to lighting and camera equipment.

Key Grip: Responsible for placement, removal and care of equipment on the set.

Best Boy and Best Boy Electric: senior assistance to the Key Grip and Gaffer respectively.

Boom Operator: Responsible for capturing dialogue between actors during scenes

Foley Artist: Responsible for producing sound for the movie after production

Editor: responsible for putting the shots and audio together to tell the final story.

The producer traditionally would take overall responsibility for pre and post production duties, but recently, directors started to take on more responsibilities in post.

In-class assignment identify crew members necessary to produce a 30 sec commercial, given that audio and script is already available.