SOUNDSCAPE
Soundscape is the space in which characters live
Night shift being a horror the sound is supposed to bring out the scary element, tension and fear.
Through sound we have to bring out Andiswe’s fear, tension, pain as well as Matthew’s beasty nature.
The sound has to evoke the audience’s emotions of tension and suspense.
Music plays an important role in creating suspense and emotional impact so we plan of using music to that effect.
‘’The use music is one of the most effective ways that a movie can use to create a certain atmosphere or sense of mood in movies” (The artifice.com) …show more content…
Hitchock remarked that 33% of the effect of psyco was due to the music.
ON SET RECORDING
We have two locations one is a hall that we are using as a night club, for this location I have to source sounds effect to make the audience believe we were in an actual bar, the ambience of night clubs, effects of a party atmosphere, people drinking and talking, bar fridge hums all this makes the night club scene real and believable
The other location is at an abandoned hospital; with its tightly spaced echoes the location is good for a horror movie sound.
The ambience of this abandoned hospital is that of a haunted place which works well for a horror movie.
“Ambience work in the most prime way, they can speak to our brain sub cautiously ” (Tasos Fentzola 2016)
According to light film school.com “majority of fixing the audio happens at location scouting”
The abandoned hospital is a good pick for our film.
MICROPHONE CHOICE For dialogue my microphone choice is the short gun microphone because its a directional microphone and it selectively picks up sound from its front …show more content…
When operating a boom it’s very important to know the camera and actor movements, this helps to keep the boom out of frame while getting the microphone as close as possible to the actor for crisp sound.
Booming Over head: Recording dialogue between two actors (Andiswe &Mathew) in the same shot, this technique is going to help a lot because the microphone is put above and slightly before the actors, places in the Centre of both actors which helps to create a clean recording.
“ When booming from overhead, the mix between all actors delivering dialogue sounds more natural meaning less mixing in post-production” (Matt Hibbard 2014)
Booming from below: This is where a microphone is placed slightly ahead and below the actor, angling the microphone directly at the source of sound, am using this technique when recording the sleep over scene, it will be useful because it’s ideal for small spaces.
POST PRODUCTION
For dialogue scenes, the sound is to be recorded onset but incase of any mishaps I plan to make an arrangement for an automated dialogue replacement to be