Music Studio

On Monday I went to the music studio to have a go at putting lyrics to our music piece. I wanted to try the music with lyrics because I thought it would be effective. After listening to the song in the "Brick" opening and other songs with lyrics they felt really powerful. I wrote some lyrics that I thought would work well with our footage of Beth for our opening sequence. Then I asked permission from my mum if she would sing the lyrics. I asked my mum because I knew she would be capable and it was practical for me and Alex as we didn't have to rely on someone else. We practiced singing all together and trying out different notes and styles of singing. After some practise Alex recorded the singing in. We listened to certain bits to see if it worked. We re-recorded any bits that didn't sound right or were out of key.

Below is the music that we have pre recorded a few days back with the lyrics.

 I have included some pictures and lyrics of the song to add some interest.

Progress

Today we did a screen recording of the film and what we have so far. At the beginning of the project we planned to have the opening start with all the clips of Beth. But while putting them all together in Imovie it lost its feeling and there was too many shots of Beth one after the other. So we decided to have the establishing shot start with Beth then cut to the other characters making links between them and Beth then it cuts back to Beth again. We plan to have the last clip of Beth laying alone and cold to leave the audience with that last powerful shot.

Film Progress

This is the Title for our Film 'Beth Marwolaeth'. We felt that this was really effective because it was simple and wasn't too distracting. We really liked the fact that the behind scene was still visible through the letters of the title. With the water flowing in the background it shimmers which is really striking.
                                                                                      


These pictures below show transitions used within our film. We have fades when the picture fades to black then fades in again. We also have an overlay of two shots this is unusual and creates interest between shot transition.
                                                                                     



Production Development

   


Here is the development of the Production Company Logo. I have also made a short video (see right) of the Production Company in animation. I used Windows Movie Maker to create this animation. I am really happy with it and hope that we can use it at the start of our film.

Music

                                                     

With the help of my friend Alex we made the piece of music in Logic Pro.

Alex recorded in the piano piece as our starting point. Then we recorded it into sections with different chords. We then quantised the whole piece. We added the ambient sound which goes behind the whole piece. The next stage was to put a female choir part into the back ground to add some varation.

These are some screen shots of development of the music piece in Logic Pro. This is where we built up the different parts of the music.

 

Version 1: Piano Solo

                                                        Version 2: Piano with ambient sound.

Version 3: Piano, ambient sound and choir.

Music Development

This is the proposed piano piece for our music. I decided to change it to this one as the previous one had a fast beat that didn't flow with the opening sequence of our film.

Brainstorming

These are some of the words that sprung to mind whilst thinking about the production of our film Beth Marwolaeth. I have been jotting down some words that are really powerful that could be made into lyrics for our music piece.