Final Project

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MOMI Visit: Blog #4

Not Pictured: Me

The audio demonstrations section at MOMI stood out the most to me. My group participated in one demo while another one stood out, but there wasn’t time to participate in it.The first demo was the ADR Room where you can dub dialogue for different movies like Coming To America, Babe and School of Rock. The first one we only saw from the outside window, but Babe and School of Rock was done by two members of the group. The first step was School of Rock with the first step was to watch the scene with caption. Then it was to practice the line as the scene was playing out. Final step was to say the lines with the scene and that is what would be used in the recording. I wondered how well it would sync because during the second step it didn’t sound like it matched up. When the program played the ADR over the scene, it matched up almost perfectly, like Jack Black really sounded like a young woman.

The next student did Babe and that also matched well. That was aided by the fact the film was made to be ADR since it used speaking animals. What I learned by this process was how accurate the dub can be. During lecture, there was a demonstration video shown about the ADR process with the fast food workers needing to be dubbed by new actors. The process looks very precise now. The other demonstration that I witnessed, but didn’t participate in was the Movie Score section. Remove the score from a film and add a new score. The tone can change dramatically such as when the music from a scene from Independence Day was removed in favor of a more hopeful sounding John Williams like score. It might have been John Williams, but I didn’t see the screen. It made it look like the arrival of alien spaceships is awe inspiring instead of something to dread.

Blog Post #3: Editing Analysis of Damsels in Distress

This establishes the 180 degree rule for the scene. Characters Violet, Lily, Heather and Rose are seated at the porch. Lily gets up. She meets Charlie and brings him over.

The shots are an example of continuity editing. Lily walks back to her seat behind Violet in shot 1, and sits down in shot 2.

Shot 1 and Shot 2 are also examples of eyeline matches between Violet and Charlie. Charlie is standing up so Violet has to look up.

More eyeline match between the two shots 5 and 6. Difference in shot 6 is that it's a point-of-view shot for Charlie.

In shots 7, 8, 9 and 10, Violet and Charlie directly address each other. Shot 7 and 10 is on Violet's point-of-view shot, she looks at Charlie in a new angle.

These shots are an example of graphic match. Shot 11, Violet has a suspicion about Charlie. It cuts to shot 12, Rose and Heather who look at each other who suspect that Violet is interested in Charlie. Shot 13 is Rose's point-of-view shot, looking at Violet and Lily.

We get Rose's point-of-view because she speaks next. Last shot is Violet's eyelevel with Rose, but not directly speaking to her.

Final Sound Project

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Sound Project

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What I Hear

I'm at LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City. I stand outside the corner of the C Building on Thompson Avenue under the sidewalk scaffolds. The cars drive past and make turn. I recognize the revving. It's like it grunts. The sirens of a police car speeding past and honking. This section isn't offering a lot of variety so I walk down the block. I hear more conversations from two older men. I don't stick around long enough to hear them. I cross the street and take a left turn. I walk past a food truck, America's best chicken tenders. It plays some music, sounds early 2000. Past that I sit on the bench across a food cart. The smaller engine rickets and sounds like it's dying. The wheels on the ground, the engine and items bounce up and down. More people talking. Someone says they'll take a picture of the Empire State Building. Overhead is helicopter flies over. Something exciting. On my way back, I go a different way. There's construction site. No machinery noises. I hear stacking of wood. Wood has more distinctive and not the same as metal. I walk under different scaffolding and there are students under there. I walk past them and one says it's okay. The city symphony is made up cars(everything about cars from engines, wheels, honking, sirens), music from cars or trucks that blast outloud, the whirls of flying vehicles and people talking to eachother. It helps me understand the time of day because this is a busy time of day. People talking isn't as loud as the cars. Cars drown out everything.

Video Project

Intense Walk through the Library from Ronald Iniego on Vimeo.

Over 250 Words

How do you sum up what you want to do as a creator in 250 words? It must be an excercise in attrition, to bombard your writer's block inhibitions until you just have to say it. I don't know if I'm at that point. I see what I want to do in my career in my daydreams. I see that ultimate goal of one of my ideas made into a film. I see the goal of getting a job as an editor on industrial films to support myself. I see myself at graduation, finishing up feature length scripts, shooting proof-of-concept footage for a crowdfunding website. They are in my daydreams, but they aren't going to be pipedreams. That's why I'm in school and in this class. It's time for some these to become reality.

All my life all I ever wanted to be was a filmmaker...or something to do with film

I'm Ronald Iniego, in case you didn't see the blog name. I'm not just after a degree, I want the skills. I haven't worked with a camera yet, but I have worked on screenplays and studied the form for years. That is just fun for me, coming up with ideas and writing it down. Some start as long paragraphs, outlined for the 3 acts. Others are just single sentences waiting for the inspiration or second idea that I can combine with it. Some of thse ideas are too big, but others are feasible.

It's not original to say Martin Scorsese is an influence, but I think my first exposure to him is unique. When I was about 9 or 10, I stumbled upon Goodfellas on TV. That opening blew me away and I never changed the channel. It got me thinking about movies as more than entertainment, that they were something more. Just as big an influence are the action directors like Paul Verhoeven and James Cameron. There are times when just a genre B-movie can crossover to A-quality and Total Recall and Cameron's Terminator pictures cross it. That's what I want to do in my pictures. To take an idea and elevate it to go well beyond expectations. There are the disenfranchised actors, women and people of color, who don't get to be the main character and I want to write specifically for them.