Choosing Music | Last Minute Idea

Whilst editing my digital piece to have my voice over match the images correctly I felt it was a little too quite with no background noise, so it was advised to me to include some Ambient music behind the dialogue, I quite liked the idea as I found there to be no background noise what so ever which usually isn't bad but typically in films there are tones used throughout to add suspense to the narrative.

I searched through my research and scoured through films to find any tracks which I thought might be relevent and found myself again coming back to Sin City, the music used in this is very ambient and adds suspense to the film which is exactly what I wanted for my work, I found the album on YouTube and listened to all the tracks to find one which would fit the theme and parts of the sequence I have created, I didnt want anything which was too loud or was too deep in level. I decided to go for 'Her name was Goldie' Which in the film is used when Marv wakes up to discover Goldie murdered in her sleep and goes on a rampage to find her killer. This to me was perfect I found the scene to be similar to what i have created in my work and for that reason thought the music would work well in the piece.

I layered the music to play alongside the images and the voice over, lowering its volume so that it can just be heard under my narrators voice to add a little more suspense to the images, this I thought worked brilliantly as I found the music peaked at times in the sequence where it was needed to add the suspense, it filled the gaps of silence (which were minimal) but works very well. the music was looped so that it played through the whole sequence as it was originally a little short to begin with, but I found where the music stopped in the middle was perfect for that particular image and dialogue and then began again at the right point for the ending I faded the sound out which works really well with the fade out from the image and my narrators voice. I am really happy with this piece as a whole as the music fits perfectly and personally i think the volume is at the right pitch/volume to inform my narrative successfully.

Draft One | Draft Two

After doing my research further in L.A Confidential and how they use newspapers throughout the film I had to have a re think about how I was doing my initial draft of my publication, I began by using the Newspaper title as the largest piece of text, when actually the largest piece of writing should be the headline below that, as you can see below I  began my first draft by doing it slightly incorrectly, for this reason I began a second draft in which I just re created what I was doing and whilst doing that I looked closely at the film pausing it to be able to see what was said on the from of Newspaper of the day so that I could incorporate it into my own Newspaper print.

As you can see from the images above, I changed quite a few pieces around so that they would link closely to the research i have done from the film stills. in my second draft I have made the title of the Newspaper smaller and created a direct and obvious headline which is bigger as it is the focal point, I also extracted quite difficultly some of the smaller text used on the Newspaper in L.A. Confidential which would be more legit to the time period and used them in my own work, for example the 9A.M Final is taken from some imagery as well as the idea of date, number of pages, issues and price etc. which I have altered slightly to my own preferences, below you can see the pieces which I took my inspiration from I have highlighted the parts which I have directly taken and some parts which I have done some alterations to. This particular shot was very helpful in allowing me to see the style of writing and the layout of how Newspapers would have been typically layed out.

Change of Idea

After realising that both my ideas for my digital piece and my publication were basically telling the same story I had to change my idea as I found I was too stuck in my ways with the Graphic Novel idea that instead of needing to edit the way I used the images as Ellen Nolan had told me to do, she said I should try to re arrange the images to the text to see which worked better at telling a story the image or the texts, however through my research I had stuck to my guns with having the story following the story of the screenplay I have written exactly which didn't help with telling a different story, because I didn't want to change this idea just a little bit I have decided to completely change my publication idea.

Below is a draft/mock up of how I originally wanted to my publication piece to look like as a graphic novel, as I said above this is something I have my heart set on creating for my entire screenplay, but I found the unit didn't allow any leeway in doing what I really wanted to do which personally is not good at all! however I do have plans to further my work personally to allow to me experiment with this idea further perhaps expanding into different areas of narrative in my own time so that way I can create work I am happy with.

So my change of idea came in a tutorial with Natasha while discussing others work, as part of the unit I have looked at various films following the genre of Film Noir and Crime, because of this I have also looked at film critiques of certain films which i thought might help me a long the way, from this I have decided to create a News Paper publication, as yet I'm not sure whether I want the piece to be in a journalism style telling the tragic story of the couple in my digital piece or whether I would like to write it from a film critiques point of view who may be looking at the piece of work. From this I will look into various newspaper styles from the 1940's and present as well as more film critiques to find an area which interests me most and I will work from this to produce my publication.