Final Project Creative Critical Reflection: Misunderstood

Final Project Film Opening: Misunderstood

Foley Sounds

So, for most of my foley sounds, I am using a website called FreeSound. This website gives people access to free audio snippets, samples, recordings, and bleeps which are released under Creative Common licenses that allow their use. For instance, for my opening scene I am using a foley sound of a clock ticking as Sophie is in the psychiatrist’s office. But, I didn’t have the resources to create my own foley sound of a clock ticking. Therefore, I am using an audio snippet from FreeSound for my ticking clock.

(n.d.) Free Sound Effects. Creating Sound. Retrieved April 4, 2016 from

http://creatingsound.com/sound-effects/free-sound-effects/

As for my other foley sounds, I am planning on creating them myself. So, for instance, for footsteps, I will just record an audio of my own footsteps and then I will edit and record them all in a recording software that I have called Studio One, which is very useful and user friendly.

(11/04/2011) PreSonus: Studio One. DAWfreak.se. Retrieved April 4, 2016 from

https://dawfreak.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/presonus-studio-one-professional-2/

Company Logo and Design

For my company, I have decided to name it BTozzi Films, after my website. I have discovered a free logo design website on Google by the name of DesignMantic. How this website works is that you type in the name of your company and what kind of company it is (Advertisement and Media, Agriculture, etc.) in a search bar. After you have searched the site will give you multiple options to choose from. If you have a certain idea in mind, then you just type it in the keyword search bar.

For instance, for my logo I have decided to do a blue globe made up of puzzle pieces. This was because, since my film is about a girl with Asperger’s Syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum, I thought it would fit. Considering that the symbol for autism is a blue puzzle piece.

Sound (Part Dos)

Okay, so the whole thing about recording my own soundtrack for this film opening? Yeah… I don’t think that’s happening. This is mostly because I don’t think I will have enough time to record and make the song seem as professional as it should… you know, considering that the deadline is so soon.

So! Instead I have decided to use a website called Purple Planet, which is a royalty free music site. I decided to use this website because I saw that another student in the past year used this website, and it seems as though this student did not have any problems with this website. Also, this website seems to be very user friendly! Let’s do this thing!

Setting

So for setting I have decided that I am going to film my opening in a doctor’s office. A psychiatrist’s office is what I had in mind because as I was doing research, I discovered that multiple people with Asperger’s Syndrome do go see either a psychiatrist, a social worker, or even a behavioral psychologist to help them deal with what they’re going through. So, for the opening I have decided to do most of the filming in a doctor’s office to show Sophie discussing what she has been going through with her psychiatrist.

But, after some thought, I felt as though only a doctor’s office setting would be very boring. So, I have also decided to do use another setting, which is a park, for the flashback scene in my film opening. This flashback scene will introduce where the two main characters, Sophie and Ethan first met.

Also! One more teensy weensy little thing. I have decided to make my characters the original age that they were intended to be (teenagers). Mainly because I was not able to find any good forty year old actors for the life of me. So, now I have gone back to my original plan and have made my two main characters in their late teens. Until next time!

Opening…?

Okay, so here’s the deal. Lately, I’ve been struggling a little bit to come up with a good film opening about a forty year old woman with Asperger’s falling in love. I’ve been going back and forth to whether there should be a voice over or not. But, I think I am starting to get a more certain idea.

So! What I have in mind is to have the main character, Sophie, being shown lying down on a couch talking to her psychiatrist about how her life has been lately, and how she’s been dealing with her… condition. I was thinking of making the entire film, and the opening, a narrative film of her reminiscing her life, especially when she met the main male protagonist of the story, Ethan Carter.

But, the thing is, I don’t know how I’m going to present a film opening about a woman with Asperger’s Syndrome without making it seem cheesy or cliché. So, that’s why I was thinking about making the film a narrative more than anything else. But, I am still pretty skeptical about this. Let’s just hope it all ends well…