Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Roughcut number 1.



Had to bump this down in size in Imovie seeing as the original was a whopping 6.7 gb in size.

Basically, this is the first rough cut I've done so far of the final piece. Its about 15 minutes in length, which is pretty much the amount of time you need to preheat your oven before you throw on your dinner.

It's fairly lo-fi, admittedly, but it'll give you a bit of a heads up to where we are and where we're going.

Monday, March 12, 2012



Possible intro to the final documentary. I stress the word possible because there's a wide variety of stuff that I'll be getting in the next couple of weeks, but it'll be along similar lines.

Bit of a homage to PBS shows like "McNeil/Lehrer Hour" and "Innovation" from the late 80s/early 90s...incidentally classic PBS documentaries or study programmes rank among some of my favourite online watching so the style homage was quite deliberate...especially down to the synthesizer based music in the background.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Soundtrack - intro theme.

Click here - Words without stories (intro theme)

"Intro music to my final year project documentary.

The story, basically seeing as the documentary is dealing with conversational breakdowns, I dubbed my own voice saying a variety of different things in English, French, Afrikaans, Japanese and Spanish with the voices of a few people who were good enough to send me sounbclips, namely Eddie "Dreth" Rodriguez in Puerto Rico, Mike Haralambakis in Cork and Sinead Lynch in Dublin in order to try and create an overwhelming and claustrophobic background of people talking about a whole bunch of nothing until it reaches a critical point, hence the aggrieved scream of "shut up" at the end.

The music itself in the background was kind of thrown together in about an hour or so, and it isn't really all that important although its pleasant enough, all the same.

Have at it and tell me if you think it accurately gets the point across."

Doing more soundtrack work as the weeks go on for different segments where needs be.