26.03.10 SUCCESS!!

Today was probably the best day we've had on this project. We got in pretty early and reviewed the sequence and made the final minor edits we felt necessary. It was the first time Olle or Geraldine has seen what we had done and we were very nervous, part of me expected to hear the words "re-shoot"...To be honest I think we had been putting off showing anyone, just in case but Olle really liked it and said it was "one of his favourite". We were ELATED!! He asked us to cut a few of the longer scenes to make them more alien and later showed us how to add filters to the clips. Geraldine also said she really liked it and wanted us to keep it short and intense and agreed with Olle in thinking we should really cut it up and make it a completely alien sequence. So we set about chopping up any of the longer scenes and randomly rearranging them to create a deranged movement. We were both really pleased with what we had after their advice. Olle was really helpful today in showing us how to alter the colouration and direction. We altered the saturation of one of the black outfit clips and the image was really delicate, it was really quite beautiful.

After lunch we converted the music we had made for our piece, but now it was so choppy and erratic the rhythmic bass line didn't really work, we tried to speed up the music but it just didn't work which was disappointing. We went on youtube to try and find some sound effects to lay over the film, parts of the sequence the existing audio worked well so we considered just complimenting that. On searching for "white noise" we came across a very strange little electro track called "bye bye butterfly" by Pauline Oliveros.

I don't know how on earth we found it or why it came up on our search but it was perfect!! So we tried to find it online to download but had to open an itunes account and buy it, my first itunes purchase was this weird little thing! We converted the file and added it to the time line. The full track is around 8 minutes long and Pauline is some sweet looking old woman, it really is surreal but the composition is exactly what we were after. It started with alien sort of sound of sound effects and noises building into a crescendo of dramatic electro and choir boys finishing with an eery squeal. We cut out sections of the track to shorten it and keep the good bits and it just fitted perfectly. The track fits so well as though it was made for the film. We are so impressed and all our friends kept saying how disgusting our film was which is amazing. Geraldine also commented on how creepy Loz was, which was nice. We showed Olle again later, by this point Grace and I were quite delerious and couldn't stop laughing at Loz scrabbling around to the rediculous music-I think he thought we were insane but still said he liked it and showed us again to put more of a dramatic filter on the film. Robbie eventually kicked us out of the room and we felt VERY accomplished. All we have left to do now is colouring the monochrome/black scenes and credits.

We decided we wanted a hard hitting,simple title. We thought about using "Tempest" in the title. We thought about "Tempest of the Mind", "Entrapment" and "escapism" but I inventually thought simply "Turmoil" summed it up pretty well and Grace agreed. We searched its official meaning and thought it might be quite cool to use the definition as the actual title. We also agreed we both want to use a clip of the flickering tv to house the credits. We did attempt to do the credits today, but I think we had pushed our luck with FCP as it didn't do what we told it, so we'll tackle that final hurdle on Monday. We are so close to finishing now! ITS EXCITING!!