Reflection: 6/7/11

Reflection
What film studies are being reviewed and practiced? What new skills have been introduced?
Today was entirely devoted to project, which is incredibly rushed and will likely be failed or pummeled in grades by everyone involved. Some new skills were forced to develop were that of making soundscape through the use of specialized objects to simulate various soundscapes such as rain and wind ambiance. Things like river flowing sounds had use the tap. Also, to make some specialized effects that were particularly difficult to extract such as an underwater sound, I learned to use sound filters in Final Cut Pro to derive the sound from existing effects, like the river flowing effect. Basically, what had to be done was to change the frequency and volume, so that a more echo and deep bass sound of water occurred which seemed as if underwater. Other ordinary skills reviewed was simply using microphones to record sounds, though it was slightly more complicated because we used video to capture the sound and had to extract the sound from the video. Other skills were basic editing in Final Cut.
Evaluation
How successful was I in achieving my goals and why? How could I/my group make use of our time more effectively?
We managed to record all necessary soundscapes however we have not verified the viability of each clip, which means we don't yet know if we have to re-record any of the sounds. We were also about to record the melodies, the music to reflect the mood of the comic, but because there was not enough time left in class, we could not even start which meant we had to come back over and over at lunch to finish the soundtrack and record the music next class. Therefore, we did not do well at achieving our goals today because we are no where close to actually finishing the soundtrack. We made use of our time extremely well anyway and even that wasn't enough to do it. We need more time but there isn't so we have to come back at lunch times and use all of next class to continue recording.