MoMI Reflections

One of the many interesting demos at the MoMI was the sound effects demo showing the scene from titanic and the building and layering of sounds used to create the sense of what's going on, the mood, and the background noises like the crashing ship, people running, water splashing, etc. each of these noises are recorded separately by foley artists and then put together by the sound editor. I already knew that the dialogue was recorded separately, but I didn't know that every single thing you hear in the movie is also recorded separately. It was interesting to learn how the foley artists create all the different sounds used in movies. Like how something so small like a sound of a can crushing can be used for a massive part of the ship crashing. All of this sound effect technology has helped expanded the creative boundaries that filmmakers have because they can literally Create any scenario they can think of and make it come to life in their movie. 

Final Project Shot List

Jacqueline Tawil and Michelle Cohen

Shot List for Final Project

We will be doing a documentary of Kim Hamadani, a Hunter student who is majoring in Psychology and minoring in dance. We will interview her to see what it's like to fuse her two passions.

Shot 1: Pan of the studio showing us around


Shot 2: Shoot the dance studio empty, maybe from a floor angle


Shot 3: Shoot her dancing but start with tight shots, starting from the feet up then expand the shots to eventually show her whole body dancing.


Shot 4: Ask her about how she started dancing


Shot 5: Why she loves dancing & how it makes her feel


Shot 6: Talk about her recital


Shot 7: What she wants to do with psych and dance

Blog Post #3: Relationship Between Shots

Media blog post #3: Relationships Between Shots 

http://youtu.be/2TVyJ-51jzc

This is clip of the film, "French Connection" during a "chasing the train" scene. The clip shows a man holding a gun to a train operators head, while below the train tracks, there is a man driving speedy, dangerous and recklessly, in order to keep up with the train. Most of the shot sequence is constantly switching between two shots. It is either of the view of the driver, of what's in front of him, or it's a closeup of his face. When the camera is showing the drivers view, it conveys a feeling of realness. It makes the viewer feel like they are in the car with the driver and the intense, high speed chase is palpitating. These emotions are definitely conveyed through the driver shot. The close up shots of the drivers face show how the man behind the crazy driving and the closeup intensifies the anxious feelings even more during the chase. When the camera shot switches to opposite the car, so you see the front of the car head on, and witness it crash, it is giving you the angle of a pedestrian. All of these different shots help not only convey the emotion and feelings in the scene clearly, but they also help and benefit each other by showing various angles of one scene, while still maintaining the screen direction.

Josiah's Interview

https://soundcloud.com/jacqueline-tawil/interview-project

Here is the link to my interview of Josiah