Final Presentation

Final Presentation

Final Film:
Behind The Music Scene

Behind the music scene presentation from LauraBriscoe98

Transcript

Georgia:
Working in a record store on a day to day basis is always such a different task, ermm, because were also one of the only record stores I'd probably say this side of Europe that's also a venue.

Fergus:
I've been collecting records since I was about 14 years old so about four years and I've got a decent collection now, yeah, I will always collect it. I'd just like it to just you know to stay really popular and everything and hopefully it will become a really good music venue where a lot of bands play and stuff like that, you know. I think it could be really cool for the Sheffield music scene.

Georgia:
I think maybe the best part sometimes it the customers like I've i honestly I've met all my best mates through working in this store and like so many other parts of it like its weird they always say that if you love what you do you never work a single day in your life and that's defiantly how it feels working here

Fergus:
My three favorite records that we've got in this store at the minute I found this one the other day which is tears for fears the hurting, I'm not sure of the actual album its self but the track list is pretty banging so it's got mad world and pale shelter which are probably my two favourite tears for fears tracks

Georgia:
Favourite wise is err Minor Threat seven inch for err the salad days the reason being err when we first when I first got involved with this place I noticed that wed got like a lot of really awesome like punk errmm twelve inches but I grew up going to a record store in Camden whenever I could every weekend and like minor threat was always such a pleasant record there

Fergus:
And then err I've got Fugazi Red Medicine which is er another one of my favourite albums and there's an inside joke in the shop that I ordered in a lot of Fugazi records and Georgia didn't reckon they'd sell but we've actually sold quite a few so ...

Georgia:
Favourite part of this job is like every Monday morning we go through the different suppliers list and we like get to listen to all this new music coming out which is like you can write of a song in the first ten seconds if its bad or not I know that sounds dodgy and bad but like there's so much more music that I would never have gotten into err one of that is this really cool picture disk for love will tear us apart by Joy Division again there's er always a hilarious story as to how we get most of our records in I feel like one they should make a great paperback book errmm but yeah like this again its like the art work and stuff like that and I think that's cool we've got stuff all like this to Cure, The Smiths, if your really into bands you'll always got find it

Fergus:
And err last but not least I've picked Beach House Depression Cherry I really like the sleeve on this as well its like a velvet sleeve you can't really see because obviously its still in the shrink wrap but er yeah its just a really good album it sounds like summat that came straight out of like an eighties sci fi film but it didn't, its modern
It's really fun working here like obviously its just cool to be part of the music scene in general and I really enjoy working with everyone here like we all get along really well so

Georgia:
Every now and then you and your team will have this idea of lets do this really cool idea and you spend the whole day doing research on it so iiit honestly its the most unpredictable job in the world but that's the best thing about it
Sometimes you find little gems like this that come with like records like I think your never going to be able to achieve that with CD erm so I think things like this like this whole like little book of just like album art and stuff like that as well and like its so cool to have this to like go through wile listening to that record and you know I think that's really like the make or break of whether it is a record store is like the amount of times I've maybe walked out of record stores all over the world like when I've been in New York or Prague and stuff and you don't necessarily walk out with a record you walk out with something that sort of resonates that shop you know and were all quite creative people so i feel like this this nails it pretty well
Me and him will  just turn around randomly to each other and be like ohh did I ever tell you how much I love vinyl like that's literally an ongoing saying. Someone like my age it's like it never died down like erm, like I said when I was twelve and I used to get my pocket money every week and I'd go to all ages records and erm check them out and the sound quality and stuff like this and I think it sort of made that research cause everyone's got this sort of there nostalgic for a life they never lived. Its all these new bands that are driving like we have record labels that only exist in tiny little cities like this and they'll like drop there record and it's like the amount of new bands that are releasing seven inch records it's like the only way people will listen to music these days its the only way people are buying music because you are physically buying a thing.

Reflection on feedback

Reflection on feedback 

In our tutorial we had many factors pointed out to us that had room for improvement. One of these being the interviews. The interview we conducted with Martin had many faults. One of these faults being his answers to the questions. He was very boring and tedious with his answers and not what we were expecting of him. Due to Martin pulling out of video recording at the last minute we were only able to get a voice recording. This made it awkward when it came to the edit as we didn't have a face of the company and as the other two faces on film were very young and didn't fit the aesthetics. When editing Martin's interview we also noticed that his voice was very monotone and dull. This brought down the overall tone of the film especially as what he was saying was of no interest. Therefore in the tutorial these were the factors we were told to improve. Due to this information we made the decision to scrap Martins interview all together as it wasn't bringing anything to the film. This meant that we had to take a different approach to the whole film. We had to make sure that Georgia and Fergus' interviews were good enough to carry the film. 

We also had problems with Georgia's interview. It was made evident to us that she spoke extremely fast making it a little difficult to keep up and understand what she was talking about. We were advised to break up her interview even more and focus more on the points of interest as a lot of what she spoke about was a little boring, off point and unnecessary. From this we were able to split up Georgia's interview even more so it didn't get too overpowering. 

One positive at the rough cut stage was that Fergus was very enthusiastic and a fresh young face. This brought a fresh look to the documentary and an upbeat feel. He has a sort of cheeky look about him and brings a slight comedy factor to the documentary. From this feedback we decided to include more of Fergus' interview as it was much more interesting than Georgia's. 

Sound Structure

Sound Structure

Title:  Behind The Music Scene
           Sound of records being flicked through as the titles appear.


Interviews:
3 interviews:   - Martin, Record Junkee owner
                        - Fergus, Record Junkee employee
                        - Georgia, Record Junkee employee


Copy right free music throughout as gig music would be too over powering. Higher volume during cut aways and faded out to a lower volume during the interviews so that the music doesn't take away from the information. The music will increase in volume again as the credits roll, playing the film out and drawing it to a close as it fades out.

Interviews will be intercut to break up the information and so it doesn't get monotonous and boring. These will also be inter cut with cut aways with a voice over.

The documentary will begin with music, closely followed by an interview from Georgia. As we only have the two contributors now I will intercut the two interviews between Georgia and Fergus but also include moments of pure music. The documentary will also end with music bringing the documentary in a full circle, especially as it revolves around music it seems fitting to begin and end the film with music.

Sound Log

Sound Log

Here is the link to my sound log.

Sound Log

Research

Research

Our approach to this documentary was to take on a poetic style. As our narrative revolved around a personal story the poetic approach was best suited for our documentary. We will use cinematography and editing to emphasise certain aspects of this particular information gained from the interviews. The use of music will be used to make it feel more personal and add to the overall feel of the film.
Poetic Approach
January 2011, Life Through A Lens 

When editing the sound I found that we had to cut up the interviews to gain the information that was needed. This meant that when paired up and synced with the image a jump cut occurred. This lead to difficulties as you could tell where the edit in sound and image had taken place. Therefore we would use cut aways and keep the voice running over these so that the edit was not as noticeable. I heard about using this technique from a YouTube video while undertaking my research. 

YouTube Video 
CICS Teaching Tech, 20th February 2012, Video Production Tips

When it comes to our documentary we always knew we wanted to use voice over. We needed a clear narrative that told a story from beginning through to the end. The problem of this was deciding what order to put the interviews in and where to inter cut them with cut aways and to swap from one interview to another. 

When conducting my research I found a YouTube video that talks about the best place to cut audio. He informs me that if a sentence is said incorrectly and so you have another take the best way to connect the two sentences is actually in the middle of a word rather than at the beginning or end of word, this way the sentence flows much better and you can't see the edit. I will try to include this technique when I come to editing the documentary as it seemed to work well.
YouTube Video
Mike Russel, 11th December 2012,  Me 1 Minute - And I'll Give You An Audio Editing Secret

  

Sync Sound

Sync Sound

Sync sound is sound that is in time (in sync) with the picture. You can do this in one of two ways. You can do this with either a single system or a dual system. The single system requires the microphone to be connected to the camera. Although this doesn't work on DSLR as the sound quality is not high enough due to the sound files being too compressed. However when using an XF100 the single system sync sound is a good option as the quality is of a good standard and it saves time in post production as the sound and image are already in sync. The other option, a dual system, requires a zoom H5 recorder. Using this you will record the sound and sync it with the image during post production. To make this easier a clapper board should be used so that the editor knows if they need to search for a sound file to sync up or not.

For our Record Junkee documentary we decided to use both the single system and the dual system. We used the riffle microphone plugged into the XF100 as a single system and we used lapel microphones plugged into the zoom H5 as a dual system. This way if anything went wrong with one of the recordings we would have a back up option. We also had two tracks to chose from so that we could chose the one with the highest quality to make the best documentary we could.

Pitch

Documentary Pitch

Here are our pitches for the documentary idea. Our original idea was Record Junkee and this was the one we felt more strongly about. The main idea was to delve into the past of Record Junkee from the owners perspective getting an insight into his struggles to maintain the business and how now it is thriving. However we had a few complications with this initial plan due to the owner deciding at the last minute that he no longer wished to be filmed. He did give us permission to do an audio recording but this still meant changing the overall style of the documentary. In the end we decided to cut the owner out completely as his interview wasn't very interesting and his voice was very monotone and dull.

Documentary pitch from LauraBriscoe98

The Archive Evaluation

The Archive Evaluation

I have decided to evaluate The Archive as this documentary is the most similar to the documentary that we are attempting to create. Having seen this documentary it has given me some creative ideas as of what to include in our documentary, Behind The Music Scene.

There are many themes within Sean Dunne's one of those being nostalgia focusing on Paul Mawhinney's record collection. The record collection represents a lifetime of collection for something he is extremely passionate about.

The documentary takes on a contributor approach meaning the story is much more focused on their story creating a much more personal overall feel to the piece. We get a much more in depth look into the personal story of the collection rather than just general facts and figures about it. From this we decided to make our documentary more personal and delve into Record Junkee's past due to it previously being in difficulties. We decided to have the owner as a major contributor but also one or more of the employees.

Dunne uses a mixture of both traditional interviews with voice overs over the cut aways, some still shots and some movement shots using a track and dolly. The mixture of these techniques is effective in creating three dimensional spaces and prevents the documentary from being static. The use of movement makes it much more aesthetically pleasing especially as the shots are smooth due to the use of the dolly.

I enjoyed The Archive as it is successful in creating a connection with the audience. It tells us a personal story and begins to pull at the heart strings due to his life long passion of collecting these records. The use of the different techniques has inspired me and gave me ideas of how to shoot particular scenes during this project and in the future.