Random litte Update for y'all.

On January 26th 2010, Avatar overtook Titanic in the worldwide boxoffice, The epic movie, set in the year 2154, raked in a staggering 1.841 billion, becoming the best-selling international release of all time.

Opening Title Sequence Update

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Jon Lotitz in The Critic

Despite the fact my OTS wasn't quite finished, i asked my teacher and a few students to view what progress i had made so far. The feedback i got was positive despite the fact i was being very precise about audio - i insisted that some of the diegetic sound was shifted out of place but nobody else noticed.

I then asked Jamie Reeves to view my OTS and help me cut it down and make it "speedier" he advised i cut some of the walking out and speed up the cuts as the Femme Fatale enters the room, i trial ran this and it worked much better, the pace of the whole OTS speeding up til the end. So i kept the improvements, Thank you Jamie :')

I've now added more non-diegetic sound and removed diegetic that was unnecessary, i now just need to add my Film Title to the end and i will ask more people from different age groups to view my finished OTS and review it.

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Sound Effects ( Non-Copyrighted )

Obviously i couldn't leave the original audio in, it altered throughout the scenes (level of volume, cars/absence of cars, people, wind) which would be irritating to the audience and maybe a bit confusing. And so i removed the majority of the audio except the sounds which i found were important - footsteps, doors shutting, phone dropped, i kept these because they are the key signifiers for Film Noir in my OTS and they create tension in the scene. They play a certain role in my OTS, for instance the footsteps not only create the sufficient tension but also add the the contrast factor that i want (the contrasting footsteps, pattering of Victim and heavy heels of Femme Fatale). What i rid from my OTS is the diegetic. accidental sound as it played no particular role in my story-line, such as cars starting or planes passing over are not necessary to my OTS and so removing them allows more focus on important audio (footsteps). Plus i can add music or sound effects later on as an under-laying sound.

cutting and overlaying audio/sound-effects

I decided to keep some sounds that i could overlay sound effects over the top of, I kept certain sounds which I then made louder than the sound effects when necessary, therefore blocking out accidental or unnecessary noise that may be paired, I could make unnecessary noise quieter or cut it out altogether.

altering the volume of certain sounds

I don't personally have access to a medium of creating sound effects but was kindly provided with a some discs CHOCK-A-BLOCK with sound effects to choose from (Special FX, Atmosphere/Ambient).

ways in which i can alter my sound (reducing, heightening, bass, delay)

What did i do different? Well i want my OTS to provoke questions in the audience about the story-line and so for that reason i decided to keep and remove certain conventions. I decided against using music, i felt that music can reveal too much about the story-line (lyrics) or can be too informative about the mood of the characters or the scene, for that reason id decided to use a series of underlaying sound effects, many long-struck notes that blend together alongside a heart beat to create tension, only the heartbeat revealing when the tension picks up in the character themselves.

I also decided against a voice over, again because a voice over can be too revealing of what's happening, yes a voice over is typical of a Film Noir Genre but i chose not to be bound by those conventions fully, as i don't want to reveal too much to the audience by telling them straight exactly what's happening and how my characters are feeling (are they expecting what is about to happen? are we watching a memory? etc).