Sound design and back to editing!

Copola's "The Conversation" intended to give us some insight into sound design and how it drives the narratives forward. It is an immense editing tool and creates phycology in the picture. For Monday's class we had to come up with specific sounds we connect with the scene of a young woman spending the night in Dracula's castle. All our suggestions stem from already established conventions from earlier films using such soundscape. We also watched a scene from "The English patient", where the use of sound or silence creates unbearable tension. At least with me, it played with my nerves to the maximum. Walter Merge, who we need to read about, gets under the phycological profile of the Nazi officer, trying to reflect his way of thinking through sound.

In the afternoon we discussed some options and alterations from the 3- act- structure with Richard, and came to the conclusion that it undoubtedly makes the screenplay more interesting, but also requires a lot of experience to create such piece. Most of my favorite directors brake the 3-act-structure, but they've all made at least 20 feature film, from which the first ones are not very successful. But eventually you learn the lessons and start playing with the narrative much smarter. I personally prefer bringing an unusual element to the narrative, but it doesn't always work, or it take ages to fit it properly.

On Tuesday we continued with the research approaches, heard some entertaining stories of what could go wrong :) I don't know if it is just Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, but I start to think the old directors are twisted.

And now let's talk about the best part of the week- editing! Back in the DTU, we started with AVID. I like it much more than Final Cut, because it seems more reliable not to crash whenever it wants. Avid will definitely not let us down, besides it's easier to use. I strongly hope this year we have more editing classes filled with rich content, unlike last year when we barely touched Final Cut.

I'll end up with the last beat of the week- Friday, when we watched Life on Mars and talked about themes of a few successful Scottish shows. I have to admit I quite enjoyed Life on Mars! Why not even watch it again, when I find some free time. Dissecting such shows is quite helpful for us to establish the subthemes that positively bring hue to the series' profile.

In the mean time, this week, just like the previous one was busy with preparation on "The Golden Rule". Fingers crossed the weather is good next Saturday, so our race can take place.