Monday, 1 April 2013
Galp Pictures Logo :)
For the Galp Pictures Logo, our initial idea was to have the text 'Galp Pictures' within a swinging flickering lightbulb. We searched online for a swinging or flickering light bulb and the result of our search was that you have to buy the animation for atleast $79 .. we were shocked. So instead i figured as i have a lightbulb in my room and it swings, why not record it then use after effects to edit it. That plan unfortunately didnt go too well. So now it was up to me to find a way to create our logo. I ended up creating about 2 potential logos and 1 unfinished one due to time. The first logo i created on after effects was horrendous, it had all the colours of the rainbow on it and i wasnt too sure on how to use after effects. However through time i got better and better and became more familiar with after effects. The logo above was my second attempt at the Galp pictures logo, I used browse presets on after effects for the template then simply edited the layers, text, light bulb and effects. The final attempt was through photoshop, i had created a lightbulb and even got the flickering effect that we wanted, but due to time i wasnt able to finish it in time for the deadline.
When the logo was done, me and Louisa were brainstorming on the type of sound to create for the logo. We wanted a classic grand intro like the 20th Century Fox one. So in order to do that i had to do some research on the type of instruments, tone and effects used for such great intros such as that. Using some of the effects i found on the macbook ( explosion, chimes and a dreamy sound) i was then able to create the sound to go with our logo.
Bound Together Sound
Sound Composition : http://goanimate.com/videos/0bXX-U5gEt6s?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0FGaWGb4gDjs
As i was incharge of sound, i researched Generic thriller soundtracks from movies such as Se7en and also directors such as David Lynch, who create a more distort soundtrack which i thought would work quite well with our opening. I wanted an industrial drone tone of sound that added to the eerie ambience of the opening. I had to search high and low to find the perfect drone as i wasn't able to use the ones on youtube due to copyright. I finally found the drone i needed on a free sfx site and it was just a matter of building the soundtrack around that on Garage band.
As some of the shots in the first scene were centered around a school site, i needed to portray that with the soundtrack. Therefore i had to find sounds of children laughing whilst the female protagonist was being bullied, as well as get the sound effect of water dripping in the toilets , then imported them into the soundtrack. Whilst shooting the shots of the Antagonist arriving with the trolly, we realised we would not be able to fully hear the trolly move if we filmed the sound and the shot at the same time (if you get what i mean). So we had to go through a few steps to get the sound of the trolly.
Step 1 - Get the red bucket on top of the trolly and put the camera inside it.
Step 2 - ensure that the camera is stable and will not fall out
Step 3 - press record on the camera then walk around with the trolly a few times, making sure we have more than enough sound to select from
Step 4 - Edit the sound and import it into the scene with precise timing.
After gathering all the sounds needed it was just a matter of editing, triming, moving and pasting the sounds to the soundtrack with specific timing. with the drone continuously playing throughout the opening i had to add echoes, crescendos and diminuendos to the climax and intense points in the opening , change the key a few times and add eerie effects to it. Overall creating the final soundtrack to Bound ToGetHer. :)
As i was incharge of sound, i researched Generic thriller soundtracks from movies such as Se7en and also directors such as David Lynch, who create a more distort soundtrack which i thought would work quite well with our opening. I wanted an industrial drone tone of sound that added to the eerie ambience of the opening. I had to search high and low to find the perfect drone as i wasn't able to use the ones on youtube due to copyright. I finally found the drone i needed on a free sfx site and it was just a matter of building the soundtrack around that on Garage band.
As some of the shots in the first scene were centered around a school site, i needed to portray that with the soundtrack. Therefore i had to find sounds of children laughing whilst the female protagonist was being bullied, as well as get the sound effect of water dripping in the toilets , then imported them into the soundtrack. Whilst shooting the shots of the Antagonist arriving with the trolly, we realised we would not be able to fully hear the trolly move if we filmed the sound and the shot at the same time (if you get what i mean). So we had to go through a few steps to get the sound of the trolly.
Step 1 - Get the red bucket on top of the trolly and put the camera inside it.
Step 2 - ensure that the camera is stable and will not fall out
Step 3 - press record on the camera then walk around with the trolly a few times, making sure we have more than enough sound to select from
Step 4 - Edit the sound and import it into the scene with precise timing.
After gathering all the sounds needed it was just a matter of editing, triming, moving and pasting the sounds to the soundtrack with specific timing. with the drone continuously playing throughout the opening i had to add echoes, crescendos and diminuendos to the climax and intense points in the opening , change the key a few times and add eerie effects to it. Overall creating the final soundtrack to Bound ToGetHer. :)
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