19. Garageband

Garage band to create a soundscape:

-New project (loops and movie)

Loops:

-Name projects
-Make sure it saves to video drive(somewhere safe)
-Temp and key or song

Garageband opens up:

-Build together sounds to make a timeline
-Search by instruments or mood or both
-Search a key word, gives you all the sounds in the library
-Click it and it plays(in preview window)
-When you find one you like, click and drag onto timeline
-Hit space and it will start to play once on the timeline
-If you hear metronome, turn off at the bottom

-To extend a sound
-You could copy and paste it OR press the loop symbol, click and drag and it will extend

Add another sound for depth:

-Find another sound in the library
-Drag onto the place below your first sound(click loop and drag out if needed)
-Space bar to play all
-You can turn library into list mode.
-If sound overpowers other sounds you can turn down the sound on the left hand side( adjust volume levels)

Fading sounds in and out:

-Click drop down menu, activate volume levels, little green lien appears on timeline, click it and you can alter the sound levels and fades in and out throughout the timeline ( make sounds a little less sharp).

Adjust tempo:

-Make things sound slower or more sped up, window at the bottom, click up and down buttons until you hit the key temp signature, drag temp up or down to increase or decrease.

ONE IMPORTANT FOLDER

-Go to all folders, scroll down and find foley, click it and it is full of all sound effects and dubbed sounds ( means we don't have to go out of our way to make our own all the time)

-Export project: share at the top,export song to disc,hit export, gives you a place to save it and puts it wherever you chose to save it as a sound file.

One more handy thing:

Movies:

-Name projects
-Exact same window opens except it states drag movie here.
-Drag movie into the timeline
-It will convert into a preview window
-So its useful when building sound around a clip
-If you want the preview window bigger you can click it and it comes out


We don't want the original sound so we need to delete it:

-Click sound, backspace and it deletes it
-We have the entire garageband library to add our own sound, click and drag sounds in the same way

14: Analysing Conventions in High School and Youth Drama's

Mise en scene, Camera, Editing and Sound

Youth Drama- La Haine

The Youth Drama film La Haine uses the camera in a way that resembles a documentary style film at the beginning of the introduction. This captures the audiences attention as it also hold the semantic field of police, riots, violence and rebellion. No close ups are held at the beginning of the intro due to the fact that they have chosen to convey no sense of emotion that may disrupt the ambiance of the scene. Editing in the intro is slow in order to show as much action and violence as possible. When the actual filming starts many more shot reverse shots and match cuts are used in order to present a more personal view into the riots at that time. Mise en scene consists of police, riot gear, dogs, casual clothing for protesters, weapons, cars and estates. These indicate a very personal and intricate point of perspective to the riots for the audience. The sound that has been implemented can be seen to be the non diagetic sound of a rock song about the riots, synchronous sounds of explosions simulating violence and diagetic sounds of news broadcasters referring to the riots.

High School Drama

The lighthearted and comedic High school drama Mean Girls usually uses camera in the introduction to display close ups, medium shots and over the shoulder shots to demonstrate the protagonists or secondary characters facial expression. In addition to this a point of view shot is used from a very low angle at the beginning of the intro in order to emphasize the immaturity of the protagonist and how she is treated as a child. The sound used throughout is a quirky and uplifitng sound trap enforcing the joyous and bouncy nature of the protagonists first day until it becomes ruined where the sound track slows down much more and the notes become much more suspended and extended. Editing Is sharp and of medium pace while occasionally tipping into fast in order to correlate with the bouncy sound track heard in the background. Finally, mise en scene is seen to be colourful and stylish for teenagers causing the outfits worn by some very different to others. The setting of the high school reflects this factor.

5: Watching (YMIAD)

24: Font styles and type faces

FONT STYLES

Arial black is a sturdy, bold font that would be great for a youth dram due to it not being too curly or girly and more dramatic and hard.

 Copper black is slightly rounded but still bold and big which suitable for a youth drama.

Comic sans its quite skinny and not very bold so wouldn't be something we would chose when trying to remake a youth drama.

Georgia is blocked and bold and is easily seen. It is a hard font which would be a good representation for a youth drama.

Valencia is too formal and cursive for a youth drama font. It is very smooth and oft which isn't recommended.

Old english font is too difficult to read and too detailed for something as simple as youth drama credits. It is bod but lacks what we look for in font.

Possible Ideas:

FIRST PLAN:

(default)

Have the male protagonist seen training for a match. For example punching a bag or the air.

As he is punching we can slow is down so as he punches again we have it transition to an event that later occurs for example:

1) He beats up his girlfriend: Have his initial punch transcend into him hitting her, see her body fall to the floor, double or triple her image to create a dramatic impact.

Then have him come back into training, punch a few more times. Then we slow mo another movement, a punch or a kick or an upper cut from him and transition into:

2) Kicking someone who is on the floor, a rival gang member? a friend?

a punch into punching someone again??

upper cut transcends into him stabbing someone, same motion as the upper or lower cut would be.

the back to training, zoom on his face and as he blinks have the girlfriend with a bruised, cut face appear where his face would of been and as she blinks have her face replaced with the other person he either kicked, punched or stabbed with a nose bleed or bleeding lip then have it go back to his face and one final punch.

SECOND PLAN:

1) The scene starts with the protagonist lying face down, dead as police are at the scene.

The whole basis of the scene is to help the audience discover how the crime occurred.

2) The whole intro will be rewinded in slow motion causing the main character to rise again off the ground as police leave the scene backwards and the criminals arrive to show how the stabbing occurred.

3) The slow motion rewind will be fastest when the scene begins as the police will be at the scene for a while. once the criminals enter the scene the rewind will be much slower in order to focus on the lighting details and camera angles used.

4)The end of the intro will consist of the main character freezing while entering the scene.

PLOT:

A snitch:

Him getting a camera and hand are shown.

Over the shoulder shot of gang member together, snitch takes a photo of them.

hand shown passing a photo over, other hand receives it.

fist flies round a corner, black out

23: Institution.

Institution: 

Looking into films written around youth life we found that GATEWAY FILMS has helped produced two films our group love and are well known youth dramas.

ANUVAHOOD:

Anuvahood is a youth drama with a male protagonist facing problems due to him being in a gang/youth environment.

SKET:

Sket features a female protagonist who seeks revenge for her sister after she is involved and brutally injured due to being involved in gang violence.

22: Initial ideas

Youth Drama.

PLANNING IDEAS(first):

As a group we looked up different ways in which we could start off the remake we are going to make. We ended up finding a clip of a video game trailer called Dead Island. Within the trailer the protagonist is seen dead on the floor in the opening scene. We thought we could use this idea and reverse the events from that initial point by jump cutting from the main event to the a day or two before the event took place. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrEwCWV8W4Q (Link to Dead island trailer)

Social Groups and Character types:

In our remake we want to show youth/gang life and how it affects people in reality. Because there are only three of us (two boys and one girl) we are going to get help from some of our friends, from college and from where we live, to help us in making our youth drama look as real as it possible can.

POSSIBLE IDEAS:

• Rivals gangs resulting in a fight causing serious injury
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• The protagonist(a male) gets himself caught up in a gang and ends up in a fatal situation
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• Based around honey trap (female protagonist) and how they are affected i a gang/youth environment

AREAS:

As a group we figured out an area close to all of us that could get a good aspect of youth life was Camden and the areas around.

The nightlife of camden will set a great atmosphere for our youth drama and is authentic as it is a popular area from youths to hang around.

GENDER: Mainly males as that is the social stereotype of a gang (use our friends to form numbers)

CLOTHING:

Mainly items like trainers, hooded jumpers/ hoodies and tracksuits or baggy jeans to support the stereotype of a gang.

Actors will have to use slang in their speech to present the idiolect a gang member would have.

Actions: Needs violence, drug and alcohol use and crime.

MISE EN SCENE:

A boxing club is a cliche and overly used way of starting a youth drama and could work well for our remake.
 (idea from my brother the devil)