This morning I had my interview with Peter Elliott, and asked him questions from my list, but found that he kept the interview going himself. I found I didn’t even need to ask all of my questions as he covered multiple topics within his answers.
I like the way it sounds. The recording is a bit quiet, but there is no noise or anything as we were in an empty, quiet meeting room, so I can just turn the volume up easily. So the clean recording is great, but also his speaking voice is very good. He speaks clearly and I feel his voice and tone matches the building. It’s very relaxed, low, quiet. I can already imagine ways to enhance this and layer over sound effects and such in the finished piece.
I listened to the 15 minute piece and took note of the main topics he was discussing, as well as interesting comments. I found there are some elements of the building I have neglected which he kept mentioning, so I think it would be important to include these, such as the L shaped courtyard, Courtroom 2, and the Dome; which I included a little bit of but probably not enough. From here I will collect some more images, possibly on Monday afternoon. I will then work on my Photoshop documents to make them expansive and to include more elements which will give the piece more visual interest and will allow me to make the piece longer. Hopefully tomorrow I will buy a surface to work on to give me an idea of the dimensions I need to be working in. Something practical, but still large. Then I will try printing these out on Thursday, so if there are any hiccups in printing, I can rectify them on Friday. From there I should be ready for filming on Sunday.
Alongside this, I need to be thinking about shot lists, and planning my shoot so it can be successful and efficient. I will also be beginning to edit Peter Elliott’s interview from now, so when I have the footage from Sunday, I can get straight into editing that and polishing it all, plus gathering a library of sound effects I can use. I need to pay special attention to this on the day, as the ripping of the paper and the tools and such on the piece are going to play a huge part. I can supplement these with recordings from a H4N later if I need to, but I would like to avoid this and keep the sound diagetic.
Full Interview: https://soundcloud.com/matthewsj-1/peter-elliott-interview
I listened to the interview and wrote down what times each topic occurred at to help me edit:
