Lo3: Be able to plan the sound production

Soundtrack ideas: I want to include wild tracks, atmospheric sound, sound effects and dialog/ speech.

Planning material

Production schedule

Story board

Treatment

For my sound I am aiming to create whimsical sound effects, calming dialog and nature focused atmospheric sound. I will be filming a mockumentary to use my sound in. In this work the viewer will follow my character Tansy as they complete a quest to traverse the woods, with a bindle leant on there shoulder they will journey across a many landscapes including wheat fields and dirt paths and come into contact with various creatures such as snails and leaf bugs. Finally to complete their quest they will find a snug spot with a view of the sunset, undo their bindle and set out a cozy picnic, where they drink their tea and eat a jam sandwich. 

I will target this project at young women and girls within the ages of 8 - 19 in both the ABC1 and C2D audience. As this is a short film it will complement the lifestyles of young women that have little time to relax and watch a long movie  they may have little time because they are university or collage students or have part time jobs along with there studies, or girls that have a short attention span. As my character is a mythical pixie my viewers won't identify with my charters culture or race but they may relate to their personality, likes and dislikes. 

My cast will include: myself as the director, prop maker, camera person and Foley artist. And sally B and Jamie B as voice actors.

My props will include: a clay character in a shabby worn out costume including boots trousers and a shawl, my background characters will be dressed in winter coats, wellies, jogging bottoms and jumpers they are dressed this way so that they can walk in muddy cold locations. For my clay character to compete their journey they will use sticks, miniature tea cups, miniature bread, miniature camping equipment, a bindle, berries and nuts, leaves, a miniature soy saws fish bottle, mushrooms, miniature plates and cutlery, marbles, plastic rubbish and finally flowers as props.

I will be using: A Cannon 2000D camera, microphones, A dead cat microphone, ring lights and torches, A tripod and headphones. This equipment is needed to: record sound accurately, film in good quality, create good lighting for my setting, steady my camera to film still shot's and listen to sound to make sure I have recorded the sounds I want.

Asset table

Annotated script

00:00 plants rustling in wind

00:05 walking stick tap

00:14 tassel gangling, steppes, waling stick

TANSY *whistling* *grunt* jumping movement 

00:23 steppes, walking stick

TANSY *humming*

 00:45 TANSY oh! a pebble-lee-slow

00:58 TANSY hey-ho Twiggle Pot lovely day for trudging

 TWIGGLE POT *grumbled reply* smocking a pipe

01:07 bug movement

01:14 *whistling*

01:38 walking with stick

01:51 TANSY *singing* I trudgedy trudge through the ferns and the dandies over the hills and the mounds, up in the sky I can see the birds fly over the hills and the mounds. plants rustling

02:21 TANSY oh good! only a thousand more grass tramples to go.

02:50 *happy sigh* my mum loved the snow drops they were her favorite. gangling

02:56 TANSY *singing* I trudgedy trudge through the whispering grass over the hills and the mound, as the sun shimmers down the butter-leaves fly over the hills and the mounds, hay ho hay ho onward I go over the hills and the mounds 

04:43 *Tea slurping*

04:53 nock on hollow wood

Foley

materials used to record Foley 

- boots

- broom

- plastic board

- twigs and leaves

- grass

- cup of tea

-hollow object 

-keys

- wood

Risk assessment

Recce for sound recording 

Identify issues and resolutions to legal and ethical issues 

I followed intellectual property writes by following copywrite law, I will be producing all of the sound in 'Trudge in the mud' myself, this includes wild tracks, dialog, music, sound effects and atmospheric sound. To prevent copyright of my own music I will make sure it is copyrighted. 

I will make sure my production will be ethically produced by providing my voice actors with food, drink and regular brakes. I will depict cultures appropriately and realistically, for example I will not use stereotypical accents that offend viewers. I will treat the space I am recording in and the voice actors respectfully. My music and language will be appropriate for my target audience as it will be calming, easy to understand and wont include any heavy topics or inappropriate language. In my music I will not make parody music I will come up with my own original ideas.  

I followed BBFC rules to make sure my sound followed a PG rating, by not including anything that may scare a child under 8 years old, I have not depicted themes such as injurie, bullying, crime or discrimination in a positive light, nor have I included nudity, bad language or graphic violence. I will also make sure my sound is suitable for my product and not include swearing and anything too intense. 

Some pre-production documents that I have used to resolve the legal/ethical issues that I have outlined include a consent form for actors whose voice I will be using to prove that they have consented to being in my film, a risk assessment to prevent any harm coming to my cast/crew during the recording stages, a location recce to highlight any issues that could ocour in the production and prove that I have permission to be in the location and a production schedule to plan who will be working when are wear so that tasks are ethically spread out and the cast/crew is given enough time to complete the task.