Week 1

Heylo

First week gone of the project. Heres the first Diary report

# What was your plan for this week?

Task D1.

The plan was to pick the suitable film and outline the narrative type that the sound effects should portray and what style of the sound effects should be used in the film. In doing this assess how best to use the porgrams and equipment to plot out the narrative outcome.

# What did you actually do this week?

What actually happened was a short series of tests running the equipment and some of the software as the editing suite has not arrived yet. Also a general feel for the projects narrative was accumulated and the overall theme will be "mystical and abstract" which goes well with the style of the film called URBAN ABSTRACT.

Also due to the loss of the part time job I decided to use the time to take a break for a few days to recuperate and to playtest soem games and watch a few films. That being said I have also completed the series Full Metal Panic and intend to move onto Neoin, as part of my creative influences.

Also what happened this week was the buying of a PC from overclocked.co.uk called the Titan Goliath, which will help me out as my laptops drivers are failing due to heat; even though I have placed a fan at the back of it. So this will therefore require time to install all my programs and have it integrate with all my hardware as well and this might take a few days.

# If there are any differences between items 1 & 2, please explain why.

What I would have liked to have done is write a small summary of the narrative I would like to achieve but considering my art is rather untouchable or readable it escaped me how to use my art to portray this. All I can say at this point is I want it abstract and sort of give you the feeling your in a vacuum with this sound happening to you in the first test film sense of course.

# What worked well this week?

The new software instruments called Evolve works very well I can see myself using that in a few pieces of the film.

# What did not work so well this week?

The evolved instrument has one flaw, it so far only plays in Kontact which does not have a record option, I will therefore have to build a slightly complex system to record from my laptops outputs through the monitors and into a small mixer and then into the pro tools interface MBox 2 mini into a pro tools session.

Also the DR-07 recorder that arrived has a problem and so I will be getting a replacement soon. My dynamic mic seems to be oddly broke also.

# What have you learned this week?

To read carefully into what your buying, very carefully.

# Describe all the items that have been added to your portfolio this week?

Evolve is now in my arsenel, so too is the DR-07 recorder, and soon to be a PC that can handle more than this sony laptop can.

# Do you have any other comments to make?

I am getting a little worried about the project, I have ideas for the sounds, but I have no way of making them at this time. This might be considered a good thing as Im diving intot he project or bad as my lack of experience shows in this area which I have delved into on purpose to strengthen my weaknesses, Film sound effects.