Film Foundations

    In class today, we watched the Netlix documentary The Speed Cubers , a documentary about two speed cubers: Felix Zemdegs and Max Park. The film was about how the two of them got into speedcubing, their "careers" in the sport, and their relationship, before filming their performances in the 2019 Rubik's Cube World Championship in Melbourne, Australia, though neither of the two speedcubers wound up winning.  The film was very well made and used many of the documentary film-making techniques we learned. One example would be playing footage as someone was giving an interview. Another example would be the heightened sound played whenever someone was solving a Rubik's Cube. The sound was louder than it actually would have been, which I believe helped immerse the viewer in the world of speedcubing. The film also did a good job showing the relationship between Felix and Max, and how they both pushed each other to be better despite Max's disability. Overall, I really e...

 Over the past couple of days, I have worked on a soundscape in Adobe Premiere. For one of my sounds, I started out by recording myself playing the piano and messing with the audio. I ended up getting an interesting sound when I reversed it and distorted the audio, so I tried using a piano sample from bensound.com  instead. I also used some sounds from soundbible.com , and recorded myself reading an article, which I pitch-shifted and reversed.  I am satisfied with the end result, as the initial goal was to create something that felt uncomfortable to listen to, and I feel like I succeeded in that. If I were to do it again, I would have tried recording more of the sounds myself, and tried being more creative with them. I was also unsure of how to layer sounds at first, and still struggle with it, and I do feel that that is apparent in this soundscape. 

     Recently, I worked on a film showcasing basic camera movement. The film was filmed without dialogue, and I utilized the movement to make the film more interesting. At first, when writing the film, I spent a while trying to edit the film to make it appear similar to an older silent film. In hindsight, I probably should have used a preset rather than spend a lot of time trying to get the perfect colors.     While filming, I had a couple shots with camera movement. My favorite shot with camera movement was the shot when I was taking a video of someone reading a book, I had my sister push me in a chair, and I think the shot turned out very well. All in all, I am quite proud of my film.