Monday, 18 November 2013

P.1 Characters Biography Kelly

Kelly.
She was born on the 6th of January 1996. Her dad ran the biggest company in town and her stepmother simply went out with her friends. They were the typical parents that didnt care about their daughter only about themselves and their money. Kelly was born in France but she moved to England when she was four years old as her dad got promoted.
She doesnt read any book as she is too usy going out with her friends and going shopping. She is the kind of person that looks down on you just because how she has been raised and because all the money she has.
She has light brown straight hair with a few wavey bits. He hair falls all the way to the middle of her back. She was quite tall and skinny, she pretty much looked like one of them girls that boys would turn around and stare at her. Her mum died in a car accident when she was 8 so that made a big impact in her life. Her mum was a nice and gorgeous girl, she was kind and caring. She fell in love with Michael when she was 12 and she wanted to be with him ever since. She has been in a few dates with him so that motivated her to carry on and to be a better person, she felt like she could be different when she was around him.
When she realised that Allie got in her way it changed everything, she because more arrogant and selfish.


P.1 Characters Biography Michael


Michael was born on the 16th of November of 1996.
He was the kind of guy that was once popular but decided that they were a bad influence so he cut some of his so called friends and just hang around with Jake. His parents have been married for years even though he doesn't quite know if they still love each other as sometimes he wakes up to see his dad sleeping on the couch. He was born in England, never has been anywhere else as he doesn't like family vacations and he rather stay in town reading some book and watching films. He loves to draw and read book such as fantasy and horror. He listen to any kind of music but specially indie.
He hangs around with his best friend Jake from primary school.
He is quite tall, dark brown hair, pale with pink cheeks and average weight. He wears normal jeans with a jumper and a polo underneath.
He went into hospital when he took drugs with his last friends which made a big impact in his life and made him want to change as a person.
His goal is to finish college and go to University but his future seemed harder to get to when he meets Allie

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P.1 Characters biography Allie

Allie Stewart.
She was born on the 12th of March 1996. She lived with her mum as her dad didn't care about her or anyone else in the world apart from his money, therefore she did not want anything to do with him whatsoever, he was as dead to her as she was to him.
She lived in America then when all the supernatural started to happen she had no choice but to move to England.
She is an open minded person when it comes to music but her favourite category would be heavy metal, rock and Indie. She would read books such as Bukwoski. She loved all of his books but specially 'You get so alone at time that it just makes sense'
Shes never really had a lot of friends as she has to keep changing colleges and everyone knows about what their family are capable of. They're just freaks according to everyone in town, but then again they're just rumours. Or thats what they think anyway.
She is a 17 year old girl with long black wavy hair. Different from all the blonde girls at her new college. She had this green beautiful eyes that no one has ever seen. She had long eyelashes and pink cheeks. She wore no make whatsoever as she was naturally beautiful. She wore jumpers with mid length skirts, she dressed quite old fashioned which is one of the reasons why everyone thought she was a freak.
She was average height and average weight. She wasn't anorexic like most of the girls at college.
The fact that her dad used to be brutal to her and her mum made a big impact in her life. It changed her life around but she doesn't regret what happened as it made her such a strong person and gave her strength to do things she would never do before. That's how she realised she had powers. With all the anger built up in her she couldn't control herself and ended up hurting her dada without meaning to.
What Allie is trying to achieve in this screen play is fight against her father and end up with him as if she doesn't he will end up with her and her mother and maybe the whole town as he is powerful too. Her mother doesn't have any powers whatsoever and she doesn't know about her ex husband having any either which is why Allie has to stick with her.
Her motivation is to finish the evil and be able to control her powers as she wont be able to have a normal life and keep her powers otherwise.

Her mum has been really ill recently and she promised her mum that she wouldn't use her powers anymore, and that she will try to have a normal life and look after her. Just be a normal teenager.

Thursday, 14 November 2013

P.1 Foley Sound and Sound Effects

Foley sounds:

Foley sounds are like sound effects which are added in films, tv series and even video games.
Such as to make the impact of bone breaking sound can be done with breaking leek which is how one of the foley artist does it.
It can create horror sounds which are really effective for horror movies and builds up the tension for the viewer. Every single horror film has some kind of foley sound in it.
They also make the footsteps for the characters to make it more dramatic and noticeable and inform the viewer of the details.
A lot of people fail at making foley sounds because they don't have the qualities that it requires such as timing and a creative mind.
The advantages of using real sounds for the special effects is that it attracts the audience as they might recognise the sounds.

This is how Ben Burton found the real sound for the laser guns in Star wars.

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

P.1 Research into Recording Ambient Sounds and Dialogue

Recording Ambient Sound:

Ambient sound recording is the noise you can hear on the background without having any character interrupt it. Such as when you can hear the birds tweeting and the wind. That is ambient sound but it stops being ambient sound when you can hear someone footsteps. 
Ambient sound is very important in film as it creates continuity in films between shots so there is not rough sound cut to mess up the sequence.
Its also important because it creates an atmosphere to the audience and helps them get into the characters body as you can hear exactly what they can hear.

The advantage of recording ambient sound while filming is that you are going to get exactly what is in the scene and at the exact same time as the action happen so you don't have to worry about getting the sound you need from the library such as in free sound.org and make sure the sound fits the video on premiere pro.
Hard cuts should be used between two shots because it would jump and would not flow therefore the sons would change dramatically and it would look like like there was no effort put in it.


Recording dialogue:

Recording dialogue is important while shooting a conversation because you get the character talking at the same time as the dialogue is playing and also you get the ambient sound which make it look more complete instead of just having the clip and recording the dialogue and adding it to the sequence.
Also if you do that you have to make sure it links well.

Looping consists on the characters looking at their original clip and them recording themselves talking to make sure they get the dialogue at the same time as the clip to make it flow naturally.
Location shooting might be hard to capture as the characters might be too far away from the character and you might not be able to hear what they are saying. To solve this problem the best thing to do its record the original clip with just ambient sound and then record what the character says with a microphone and add the two sounds. The dialogue and the ambient sound together to make it flow.