Poetic Sound

screen shot of garage band work

So as my role was cinematographer for this project so i let Danny get on with it helping him where ever he needed. Where he most needed help was with the poetic, using the small quotes layered over the found footage we had worked really nicely but it felt very empty and we had to find a solution. We decide that we would go with creating our atmos track and as I had done something similar before and new how to use garage band and soundtrack pro the best in the group i went ahead with attempting to create something. 

Knowing that Acid House/ House music waited 8 bars of 8 beats before adding anything in i wanted to keep to this style and using the track at the begging of our documentary as inspiration i set about creating something. I wanted it to be more of an atmospheric thing than a song so thats why the kind of beat that is there only come's in at the end and  was there to carry you onto the actually documentary. 

In the end i was surprisingly pleased with what i made and i think that it ties the whole poetic piece together.   

Screenshot of working in soundtrack pro 

Shot list

Screen shot of the Shot list from day 2

We kept a shot list of all the shots that we did around manchester and of the interviews to that when it came to editing the footage danny had a better idea of what he was looking at. unfortunately we had to do this on Tonys phone as we had no paper to hand a the time. 

Tghe shot list also meant that through out the day we had an idea of what shots we had and what we needed to get as especially on the second day of filming there was   of shots that had to get.

Storyville: The Black Fish - The Whale That Killed

image of killer whale at Sea-world

This documentary was a actually suggested to me and i thought I would give it a watch. I have never watched a Storyville documentary before but this makes me want to watch more of them. 

This was a documentary about the killer whales at Seaworld and others it looks into the attacks and sometimes killings by the whales. It tries to explore how it was dealt with and who was at fault. It starts from the begging showing the audience how they originally got the whales  to Seaworld centre which was a big shock to me as they were captured as babies from the wild which is a shocking thing for the audience to see.  The documentary then goes on to explore the reported attacks and the efforts that went into covering them up.

This documentary is all talking heads and interviews with ex-trainers and environmentalists with found footage of the shows and sometimes of the attacks which i was not expecting. Although it is very much talking heads the found footage that they had was good. This documentary is very moving both for the people that died or got attacked and also the whales that are in captivity and clearly not happy. 

Although this documentary is very thought provoking and very much worth a watch. it is very one sided its hard to see it not being the right side but it is very much one sided. There was no interviews from a current trainer or anyone from Seaworld itself.