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 What I've Learned

For this latest film I wanted to try a different approach to my pipeline. Normally if I have music I do it at the very end and most often I don't even do it at all. Lately through watching more TV and movies I've come to gain a greater appreciation of the importance of music. So for this latest film I decided to start with the music. I intended it as an exercise for using music as a story telling tool. I'm not very adept with the creation of music so I got help from a friend who knew all the technicalities. Our process was we would come up with a vibe or feeling we wanted to get from the music and then devise a sound. In reality we just messed around with synthetic instruments we thought sounded cool. In this way the sound took on its own form, one best suited for itself. If we tried using the sounds we had to make the originally intended vibe it wouldn't have worked I don't think. Just another of the many instances where I've learned the importance of adaptation. Having the song did make writing much easier. In the future I think I might at least make one of the scores for a film ahead of time. It really makes incorporating the music later easier. It also provides a background for my subconscious to focus on as I write. The vibe for this film was dark so I used very high key lighting and low exposures. Originally Chris and I met up at his house during the day. There were some things I wanted to film outside but we soon realized that the bright weather would throw off the entire tone. So we met up again later at night. This is really the first instance I've absolutely needed my 50mm prime as the kit lens just wasn't fast enough. If I cranked the ISO to 6400 it was a decent exposure but the noise was ridiculous. Definitely want a prime lens anytime I film at night.

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