Audio Project 2 – Time

I was unable to attend this meeting because I was at work but I was kept up to date over Facebook.

Callum and the group sat and watched the first mix we had presented to the group, and he took notes on things that they wanted changing for the next meeting, after taking a break from listening to the sound we were able to see some of the things that the group were picking up on, such as foley and atmos being way too loud in the mix, and certain spot effects being way too loud in relation to the rest of the mix.

The same evening we sat down and amended all of these issues, ready to give a second draft to the group the next day.

We organised this meeting because we became aware of a lot of dead space in a phone call at the start of the film, as well as a lot of potential plot holes and a general lack of narrative to the film.

For this meeting we had recorded two versions for the phone call; the original version, and the version that we created.

We first showed them what we had recorded instead of the original, while making them 100% aware that we had recorded the original version and so could drop that version in instead without any trouble.

Both Kelly and Gabby said that they liked the revision, and were happy for us to use that instead of the original, so we sent them our notes so they could add it to the script.

In this meeting we were presented with a picture lock of the film, meaning that the media team were finished with editing until after we had finished the audio. we presented them with an estimate of 1.5 – 2 weeks for us to be able to finish the audio for the film, as we were able to work simultaneously (myself on foley and music and Callum on atmos and dialogue) which they were happy with, and we agreed to keep eachother updated on any progress or problems.

In this meeting we were given a short clip of one of the finished scenes to start working on, we were told at the time that this scene was subject to change once it was in the whole film, so we decided to take it still so we could start working on building up our cache of relevant sounds for the finished film.

In this meeting we handed over our audio to the media group, after finding out that this is the way that dialogue is synced, we then also explained to them about how the .AAF file types worked, before organising a second meeting for once they were happy with the footage and editing that they had done.

We also offered our assistance for if anything was wrong with the new way of working.