Today, I spent some more time
looking for music, this time collaborating with Ran the editor and Ethelia the
director for what would work well with the footage we captured in our first
shoot, namely the montage scene. I was leaning towards Secret Garden’s songs,
as they were calm, almost tranquil, yet sad songs that would work well with a
montage of a love-drunk girl. After Ran had completed an assembly edit of the
montage, I looked through it and found that the footage did indeed match that
solemn mood of Secret Garden’s melodies. I decided on Cantoluna as the song that would play during the montage, and Ran
taught me the settings for converting the song into an AIFF format. Using an
online converter, I simply pasted in the YouTube URL of the song, changed it to
48000hz, and converted it. I then took the converted file and placed it in the
computer’s public DropBox so that Ran could retrieve it from a different
computer, thereby maximizing efficiency between looking for music and sounds, and
editing the actual film. From this process, I was able to practice working
efficiently with Ran, and also learned how easy it was to convert a song into
an AIFF file. Collaborating with classmates is an extremely important skill,
both in school and in the “real world”, especially in projects that have many
people working towards the same goal, for example the gaming industry.
In this lesson, we were also able to
record a few of Jonathan’s lines as a waiter. After practicing his lines in Cantonese
for the past week, it was time to record it. We asked Mr. Chang for a Canon
HF300 simply as a recording device, and then a boom-microphone to record the
sound, as well as the microphone stand outside Mr. Chang’s office. We then asked
Dr. Lau if he could open one of the music practice rooms for us to use. Once
inside, I spent the next ten minutes trying to make sure the cable connecting
the boom-microphone to the camera stayed connected, using my earphones to make
sure sound was recording. Finally ready, we were going to start recording, only
to realize that we needed a reference for Jonathan, to make sure his lines
would match up with the video. I used my iPhone to record the coffee shop scene
played on the Mac. It was poor quality, but it served its purpose. When we
began recording, we found that Jonathan did not say enough “watermelons” on
set, and that he didn’t have enough time to deliver all of his lines. Ethelia
was able to cut some of his lines to have them fit, but this taught me the
complications of relying on post-production reconstruction of audio, and the
importance of recording sound on location.
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