Foley Sound

Foley sound is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added into a film/video/other media forms in order to enhance the audio quality. It can be any sound from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to closing a door and then breaking glass.

For my video I am going to be replicating the sounds of:

• A door opening
• A golf club hitting the ball 
• People muttering
• Footsteps 
• A golf ball smashing into something 

In order to create these sounds I am going to

Equipment I am going to need for this will be to make the noises will be:

• Golf club
• Golf ball
• A door
• Several people

Equipment I am going to need in order to capture and record these noises will be:

• Cinemizer E614 Mics
• Firewire audio interface with 8 mic pre-amps
• Headphones
• MV44 soundproof headphones

The photos above is me using equipment to recreate the foley sound of a golf club hitting a golf ball 

Designing my ident on adobe illustrator and after effects

In order to create my ident I used both Adobe Illustrator to first design the images to be used and then Adobe after effects to actually create the animation using said images from illustrator. I took screenshots of the created images on illustrator first and chose the colours I preferred. I managed to easily create a circle and triangle with the circle tool and then pen tool, also in order to make the letters M and C, I felt it would visually creative if we could edit at another copied circle and triangle and turn them into the actual letters. I took inspiration from The Weinstein Company ident in which they make 3 triangles become a W.
Using the scissor tool to cut out parts of the actual shapes and then moving them together so they became letters. After then grouping them all together and taking more screenshots, I moved them to adobe after effects to begin editing and create the animation. I first put in the circle and managed to get the animation to make it fade out as if it was turning, while turning a piece of it came off in the shape of the triangle which was the one I had made on illustrator, the circle then continued to turn and fade while the triangle turns as well separated. Once the circle was completely gone I got the triangle to fall into the centre of the screen which also had a line emerging from the bottom so now was simply a triangle on the line. Using more fading tools I managed to make the triangle shrink to fit in-between the custom made M and C which came up from the line and beneath the line the word "productions" came out and thus made the full title.










I used this photo to get this specific colour chart however I ended up going with my second colour tally as I preferred the other colours.


I used this photo to get this colour tally which I preferred to the other one I felt the first options colours were too bright.


This is the custom made M and C that I made from editing 2 triangles that and one circle, both the triangle and circle were copies of the ones used as the graphic element in my ident.

Ident draft

Before I begun designing my ident on Adobe after effects, I drew diagram sketches of the animation I wanted on several different post card notes and then took a vine sequence of them all in order to show an understanding of what I wanted to do.

history of title openings

Silent films:
Throughout the years title sequences have greatly improved, becoming more extravagant and graphic through the indentation of cinematography. Before in silent films title sequences would be simple title cards, inter titles were used to show dialogue and information about the plot. Cards were used at both the beginning and end of the film to first show the title and director of the film then the end and the actors names etc.

Talkies: Sound was eventually brought to films removing the need of title cards although subtitles were eventually created aiding people who could not hear.

60's and the birth of the titles: Alfred Hitchcock's movie North by Northwest was one of the first to have an opening using kinetic typography influencing the 1960s television predilection for title design which cause the start of strong graphics-led sequences for many television shows. Further development of more extravagant graphics and during the late 1980s and early 1990s digital technologies managed to change both television and movie industries. Soon after films and tv serues began to develop more cinematic experiences for television, including more elaborate and considered title sequences.

Modern era: As of the beginning of the 21st century, title sequences have a very wide variety of media besides film and television including video games, conferences, and even music videos. Graphics have drastically improved creating much more vivid and powerful title sequences.

Treatment for feature film

1.  A working title

2.  The writer's name and email

3.  A short logline e.g. ‘And Then Came Love’ is a character-driven romantic comedy about a high-powered Manhattan single mom who opens Pandora's box when she seeks out the anonymous sperm donor father of her young son.

4.  Introduction to key characters

5.  Who, what, when, why and where.

6.  Act 1. Set the scene, dramatize the main conflicts.

7.  Act 2. Should dramatize how the conflicts introduced in Act 1 lead to a crisis.

8.  Act 3. The final conflict and resolution.

1. Youth

2. Max Cochrane email: maxcochrane11@gmail.com

3. "Youth" is a drama bout a teenage boy who dreams of being a professional golfer but unfortunately has a long line of struggles in his life, his father died leaving him with his alcoholic mother, they are lower class and since he doesn't go to school he is anti-social but tries to see the positives of his life despite there being many down sides

4. The first scene we are introduced to the main protagonist who is a teenage lower class boy with dreams of being a professional golfer

5. Main character (unnamed for now) watches actual golfers and plays in alleyways set in the day in London, he does this as he aspires to be a professional golfer in future, set in London

6. We are introduced to the protagonist and get an idea of what his life is like and grow sympathy for him, it opens with his watching actual golfers play.

7. After having a good day he is mugged for anything he has and they steal his bat, he returns to an angry mother mad that knows he has stolen money from her.

8. He eventually manages to have a talk with his mother who sympathises with him and eventually gives him his dads club and he leaves feeling better and excited and ends with him again watching golfers play.

Advance in technology within the film industry have been beneficial for both audiences and institutions

I think it that the improved technology in the film industry has benefitted both audiences and institutions for example the audiences have been benefitted as now they can enjoy a much more wide variety of more realistic and gripping special effects, it causes the movie to be more exciting than if the special effects were awful, it causes the film for the audience to be more entertaining if the special effects are good and from this the institutions are benefitted as they are praised for their good special effects and gain more positive publicity and a better public name for themselves.

Another way in which audiences are benefitted is the CGI has dramatically improved, for example movies such as Lord of the rings and Rise of the planet of the apes obviously don't have real apes or creatures as hideous as Gollum, however with the improved CGI effects they become very realistic causing the audience to enjoy and appreciate the CGI much more than if the CGI was bad which just makes the movie look a lot worse and just ridiculous sometimes. Again this causes the institution praise for its ability to produce realistic CGI causing its movie to be better.

Sound has also been an improvement in films, in old films dialogue and music can sound rather odd in a few ways difficult to describe but there is a definite difference between sound in new films than sound in older films, dialogue, non diegetic and diegetic sound just sounds much better with in films nowadays. If any movie has bad sound effects it dramatically affects the movie in a very bad way, it can be disappointing and highly frustrating trying to actually understand or listen to the sound of the film. If a movie has quality sound it benefits it greatly by causing the audience to enjoy it a whole lot more, no audience is happy with a good film that has awful sound quality.

For films such as Star Wars the older version arguably being the best trilogy ever had at the time amazing special effects with the laser shooting, the lightsabers and floating objects. This managed to amaze audiences and gain more popularity and gain Lucasfilm loads of praise for its incredible effects. In this however the downside is now since audiences have seen said effects in the films every single Star Wars film now has been expected to blow the minds of audiences by giving them more insane special effects, this can be the down side of films nowadays, due to advances in the technology they are now generally expected to have much more spectacular effects to excite the audiences, if a film was made now with the same quality effects that were first used about 10 years ago it would be very harshly criticised or thought to have had an extremely low budget.

With that audiences have been benefitted with constantly more incredible effects in movies however have also now generally expected each film that comes out as the years go by and technology improves we expect better effects or we become disappointed with the film.

Opening sequence pitch presentation