#12

WEEK #12 BLOG POST 

Which of the editing tips/techniques from this week’s videos is your group making use of in your final media work? What are you hoping this will evoke in an audience member?

How is your group planning to set up the work for exhibition? How will this help enhance the feeling of ‘being in a body’ that your media work is exploring?

I very much enjoyed this week as post-production is in actuality my favourite stage of film production. I had also learnt a great deal, particularly in regard to Peter McKinnon’s video on audio and SFX editing. The largest takeaway from that video would be getting creative with sound effects, whereby I don’t only need to utilise my own audio recordings yet I can also take from external sources (with permission of course). 

We intend to give a significant amount of attention to sound editing as it is a very important mode to this piece. Audio has the potential to be a very evocative tool as you are truly able to immerse yourself within it and we would like to harness this experience for our forthcoming piece. In saying this, we will experiment with altering volumes, selecting some pieces of audio to be heightened, ultimately causing some sounds to be more salient than others. Henceforth, differing sensations can be better noticed due to how they are organised collectively.

For the exhibition, we intend to exhibit the work on-screen (with no particular preference of whereabouts in the room it is to be played) and viewers (most notably) will watch the film with earphones. This is an imperative element of the viewing experience as audiences will feel immersed within the film due to the use of earphones. Earphones tend to ensure that listeners only hear what is intended as they block out any unwanted background noise from the exhibition space. This will also help enhance the feeling of ‘being in a body’ that our piece intends to explore as viewers will better hear and feel engrossed within the carefully constructed soundscape.