...time to get messy

Soundscape is rapidly approaching and not enough work has been done. The storyboards are finished, and uploaded. Now to get on with filming, recording and editing!

I've finalised the order that my mini-sequences are going to be edited into, decided where the sounds should be placed and have the prop and location list sorted. All that's left is to actually MAKE the film. I am a bit worried about timing, more so that it's not the correct length for the brief. 

I find time planning - as in how long a piece and its sections will last - really difficult. It's why I find timing in animation so hard. I can't see in stages how long a movement or sequence should and will last. I need to work on that - I think that to do so, I should do more trials/tests before committing myself to a FINAL storyboard.

FINAL SOUNDSCAPE!

For research towards the visual side of things, I used http://www.gregology.net/Reference/Sextionary and http://amog.com/lifestyle/sex-euphemisms/ - I found it helpful to have such extensive lists that I could pick and chose from to keep each mini-section in keeping with the rest. This is something I feel I need to work on with my own planning, to come up with a much greater base of initial ideas so I have more scope to edit - rather than picking one idea and sticking with it no matter what.

On the use of sound - In the first year, we had our first real sound-influenced task, and I felt I leant to heavily on imagery and added sound as an afterthought. In the first half of the second year's first term was the soundscape project. Learning from the first sound task, I feel it went too far the other way and was a soundtrack with irrelevant imagery added in for no real reason other than the brief said to. 

This Soundscape project I feel has finally shown I have managed to created a product of sound and image working together. For this reason, even if it fails in all other aspects, I am please with how it turned out. Obviously as with all work I can see it's faults and flaws that I would ideally change and improve upon in the future but as far as progression goes, I feel I have definitely got a much better understanding of how to incorporate sound into my films.