Blog Post #63 - CCR #3

3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

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CCR #3

3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

My production skills developed greatly while producing my project, “Beneath The Hood” in many ways, from editing, to background research, to recording, to even something as simple as explaining things to others. 

Before I started this project, I did not utilize many tools I had available to me, such as using score in the background of a scene’s audio. Here is an example of a project I had made earlier this year, called Pork.

This project lacks any score, or sound effects, which makes it seem less convincing, and more empty. This leads the audience to being unengaged, and bored while watching it. 

During the production of my project, Beneath the Hood, I researched into the effects of score on an audience, I learned, specifically studying the effects of score in the movie “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”, about how score effects an audience’s expectations of a character, how interpretation of an action can be changed depending on the score, and how score can be used to manipulate an audience’s emotion.

An example of these effects is at the end of my project “Beneath The Hood”, when the score is used to ramp up the audience’s excitement, and build up energy towards the end, which I could use to transition into the next scene, and improve an audience’s feeling about Ed, Fern, and the film in general.

This research into score has greatly improved my mastery over score. Speaking of research, my skill of researching things has greatly improved. An application of this improved research skill has been to research different editing techniques to use in my project. 

Before my project, my editing skills were very minimal. Afterwards, I learned to control the pacing, transitions, and audio levels within the project, making it feel faster and more entertaining. This also allows me to further drive home a narrative to the audience, and control their expectations and emotions. Here is a clip from my project that I feel benefitted from the improved pacing and audio of my project, Beneath The Hood.

Finally, I learned to better communicate with others in order to make the production of my project more smooth. This was gained by the experience of recording this project. For reference, Beneath The Hood took two full 5 hour days to record, being 2 minutes long, and taking many takes, while my third CCR only took two hours to record, even though it was 1.5 times as long. I have gained experience into telling people involved in my production my visions.

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