Uncopyrighted Music

Hi, Im finding it difficult to find any uncopyrighted music on the internet for the background of the car chase.

Does anyone have any CD's with uncopyrighted music on?

I think we need something quite fast paced, abit like drum and bass. Ive put a link up for need for speed that is a good example of what I think ours should sound like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpzAiRPy5s

atmos track

hi, don't nknow if we will have time to do this but i have just been driving and come up with a good sound we could record when driving past stationary cars and with the window down the cars block the wind out and it sounds quite gd as an atmos track.

hey

hey. i have like 40 uncopyrighted songs whcih we could use. and i agree with sam, i just have some concerns, lastweeks progress on the amount filmed, if that is guna be the same progress as this weeks were guna really struggle to make 5minutes =[

ive edited most of the pictures with teh cop cars, guna do the rest today guys and ill edit it in tomorrow after our DVD session.

really like the stop motion from yesterday sam. looks great. =D



kev.

if you can watch the car chase scene from Bullitt, got some really good ideas on sound and what we need visually. if we could get a piece of non copy righted music just to go in the background it could make it sound better.

for visual, over drivers shoulder, close ups on face both from the front and at the side. we could do it from the front outside by putting some blue paper behind the back window and if you make the camera wobble it gives the impression the cars moving. saw it in a film last night so if we did that for like under 4 ish seconds the audience won't notice. shots like looking up at the drivers, so the camera is like in the drivers footwell. 

we will need to do stuff like this today. 

hi, just wanted to say i thought the last bit of stop motion went really well today just need to wrap up the real life footage tomorrow, but that should be no probs. had an idea for a shot, for the real life footage for when the cars jump off the roof we could move the camera forward and lower the angle to create the impression of the cars moving faster and so as not to see the cars slowing down.

Close-ups

I think using lego men in the stop motion is a really good idea becuase we can get some reaction shots to the car chase. I also think we need some reaction shots in the real footage part. Ive had a look at that clip from Casino and I think we should try and create something simular to that. The character looks really anxious and paranoid and it adds tension the the scene. This will also padd out the first scene and create continuity between shots. Another idea I had was maybe using abit of dialogue for the real footage. Again this will add tension and show the characters emotions.

we are missing people!!!!

check this out, I have looked at loads of stop motion car chases so far and they ALL consist off TWO things: one, cars crashing into each other and two, PEOPLE! we have no people, pedestrians or anything! I dont have any toys on me at the flat, but I wanted to see if we could edit some in, they dont even have to look good or realistic... CHECK THE LINK BELOW... its funny - if push came to shove we could draw stick figures or something... let me know


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0QK26hOltE&feature=related

POP ART

Looking at what Kev has shown me today on the Mac, concerning my "pop art" idea, your way was the best way to go, I wanted our film to look playfull and so forth but it looks cheesy in a proffessional way, it looks neater and a lot better, thanks for taking my idea and improving it, I think we can all agree it looks better!

so annoying!

I just wrote a load of stuff on here and it totally vanished!

I was thinking as our film is basically a spoof, I thought it would be a fun idea to do an " Extras" bit at the end, it won't be time consuming because we can jus use clips of the footage we already have and perhaps interview each other on what went well and what didnt, its just an idea but I thought it would be something different from all the other groups! we could also use clips and pictures we have taken from our phones! think about it and let me know!

BY THE WAY

Nicola. just thought id share something with you. hopefully you will like it. its your idea taken further which we could easily edit in.
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looks much better in full resolution.




kev

had an idea for another sequence

on one shot have the helicopter appear in background, then go to a p.o.v of helicopter catching up a chasing cae, then go to a reaction shot of one of the drivers going "oh shit" etc. this will tke up some time then the helicopter could crash into somthing, maybe a thunderbird? whatever

PROJECT =]

Hey Guys.

Really like the green screen idea. thing is it needs to be really well lit. rekon we could get that studio area? if we could that would be great.



edited all of the pictures, this is the sort of thing it looks like, took ages cos when i first did it you couldnt really tell so i had to over emphasize it, hope youse like it.




the image was a gif but didnt work =[ but as you can see its the cop car lights. looks alrite when it moves. and storyboarded in words the stop motion sequence. so i know how its going to date.



we need to do more though. guna mash the footage together this week. had problems with sams hard drive though., its formatted as FAT32 so you cant transfer big video files so i couldnt do anything with the actual footage without disrupting the file and making alot of files go offline and thats why i edited the most time consuming thing. the stop motion.



also. you guys know how we made the cars jump with the sticks, i have tried to edit it out but using the clone tool it doesnt look that great. but i think they look fine the way they did so....



but i have two options on how we can get rid of them, one being really time consuming and re shooting that scene but shooting it with no cars so that the layers can be over lapped and the sticks can be erazed or maybe changing the picture in final cut using 'transform' and zooming in a little. ill have a little fiddle this week. but personally i think its really minor and that we should consintrate on getting all the stop motion and real footage completely shot this week.

also harriet how you coming on with the sound etc. i know its not really any of my business as im not the production manager, its just a growing concern thats all. been thinking about this project all week.




Kev.

hya, thinking for stop animation, does anyone have any zoo animals? so the chase could go through a zoo. does anyone have subuteo? so likewise they could drive through a match and maybe even score a goal. also thought we could break away to like a fast & furious esc street race but our car chase cars win.

Green Screen

After looking at the footage today we definitly need some reaction shots from the characters in the car. For an A-Level project I used chroma key to create a background that moved behing the characters. I think we could create a basic animation for the car windows. I have had a look on you tube and found a video that shows how you can just use green paper and then pick the colour out to animate on to.

Heres the link;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9CBxAs4Osc

The program I used was Macromedia Flash player, if we think we will have time we could use this to create a simple animation to match the set we created.

EDITING

The last post wouldnt let me add anything else so i had to start a new post. i have found a great photoshop book on still editing so if we export some footage as a filmstrip i could see what it looks like as a cartoon effect, similar to the desaturated look of the top image which was done with doubling the layers and desaturating the top one and lowering the opacity.

kev

STILLS

Hey. these are the two ideas ^^

EDITING

Hey guys. edited most of the stop motion that we filmed on friday. looks great. just a few ideas for style for the actual footage. i really like salaryman6 by jake night, and think that the colour and letterbox style look great and think would suit our video if i could get hold of the filter. just want to know what you think. i think i have attached it for you to look at. if not i was thinking a shadowing greyscale look. 

kev.

stop motion. friday 27th march

i really enjoyed the stop motion today. i felt that although none of us except kev had done it before it looks really effective and am looking forward to seeing the finished clips in action. i really like the set and think that we have put alot of effort into it and it looks really good. i am really looking forward to tuesday and finishing the stop motion and maybe we can experiment with different ideas that could work. i have been thinking and one idea i have come up with is, if it was possible would be to chroma key a picture or clip of either me or josh into the scene were the cars are jumping over the train. just a thought i know it could be difficult to do but if we get the shoot rapped up maybe we could have a play about with it??? see you all on tuesday at 9am sharp kids.

More ideas for sound

I was thinking we could use a helicopter sound for the birdseye view shots of the toy cars. this would add to the chase feel of the scene. We could record the sound of a skipping rope for this.

I got the idea from the Apocolypse now clip we got shown in the sound lecture. I also think we need a really good soundtrack to use for the chase. I have pasted the link for the apocolypse now clip below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ADTPYAEi80

wed, 25.03.09 first day of filming!

I think todays filming went really well, although there were restrictions due to the weather, I'm glad that we chose to shoot the rest of the "car chase" when we did, just because we can't film one shot doesn't mean we can't film another section to keep the ball rolling.

I'm looking forward to filming close up "wheel-shots" and getting the extra shots of the "hands on steering wheel" ATTENTION TO DETAIL KIDS!

Also I really liked the impromptue idea of shooting the film from the POV of both cars, initially we were just going to shoot the film from the side view mirror and getting both car shots and filming not only from the side view mirror but from the POV of the chaser, was exciting and a fun, not to mention the extra footage which will fit in nicely with the montage of clips of the whole car chase!
I think the next step will be just getting it perfect, all the little shots for example: switching the engine on, the close up wheel spin shots, the close up of the car skidding through the puddles which I thought was a great idea Sam!! It will look very effective.
Oh now I come to mention it I also think a shot of what Josh can see in this rear view mirror.- I'll just film from the back window of his car could be effective... a refective POV shot of what Josh can see.
I've started work on the fake models alothough its alot tougher than I thought it would be! PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!
welldone guys, good job today!

Nic

Todays Filming

Well done everyone about today. i think we covered alot. from talking to people on our course we are miles ahead. if we can get almost all of the filming done this week ill log it and start editing next week. personally i think we are working very well together and think we will more than likely finish our project well before the deadline if we continute to work at our current pace. Also i will bring another tape tomorrow just incase and i think we should maybes meet up tomorrow evening to show one another our work on the model set. btw from trial and error i think that the best solution for making the set is A4 craft card and not that cardboard i got us all from work, as the final set would look alot more professional and 'slick' with white craft card.

ill shall bring my slr on friday for the stop motion filming. and when my computer is fixed i shall make some 'pop art' style graphics for the video. i think its due back in a week and a half, unless if you refer back to the video i posted on here under sam's 'hi guys' post, if you fast forward to the end there is another way in which we could do the explosion which will also look really good. just for your consideration guys, just get back to me with feedback when i start and edit and stuff.

cheers,

Kev

Ideas for sound

Alot of the sound will be recorded on set, for example - car door shuting, footsteps. For this we will need a rifle mic to ensure the sounds are really clear. We could echo the sounds of footsteps for example to create an eerie feel and create suspense.

We could record some radio clips to edit in for when the character turns on the ignition of the car. The music on the radio could carry on after we cut from inside the car and could then become the soundtrack to the chase. I think this will help the shots to flow together.

An idea we talked about it our first presentations that i think we should try and do is include cartoon style sounds for the cars, like the japanese style sounds used in the Kill Bill. I think this will add to the spoof effect that we are trying to create.

You tube - example car chase

Ive found an example of a stop motion car chase on you tube. I think this one works really well, the close up shots from behind the cars look really good. Although it does work on the floor i think it will be better if we make a set like we said, I think it will add to the spoof effect.

Here is the link;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svaI-9Baao&NR=1

ok

sounds good guys sorry i haven't been in touch ive been working soo much recently!
we should probably check this at least once a day everyday from now on, just to say in the "loop"... cya at 2.30 in the hubbs guys

My inital idea

The subject of my film will be the digital world we live in today. It will represent the digital journey of messages, data and conversations that we all have every day. The piece will give audiences an impression of a journey that we can only imagine because we can never see it.

Style - The film will have a similar style to Stefan Nadelman’s ‘Terminal Bar’. There will be a voiceover used at the start of the film as an introduction for the audience. We will use images of different types of communication technology, but will use zoom and pans to keep the impression of movement. Similarly to ‘Terminal Bar’ we will split the screen when building up the digital sounds and conversations. This will create a rhythm and give the piece a sense of movement. For the interview shots we will position the camera below the interviewee, this will give the impression they are typing their answer into a computer or mobile phone.

hi guys