BA2b - Week 2 Summary

This week we had the Cross-Collaboration project with Fine art, where we were put into groups with some Games students and Fine Art students and given a word which we had to use as inspiration and make a film with. It had to be focused around an object that we make/ acquire and have it be part of the narrative of the film. We got the word cube, and the photo below as inspiration -

In our group, we started by going to the castle museum, taking note of the fact that its a massive cube itself. Our first idea came from that, making a 3D model of the castle and then have someone pick it up, working with perspectives. The castle had some interesting things related to cube, but not anything that really shook us. After a tutorial with the fine art tutors, we decided on a more solid idea of having a film ABOUT making a film, involving rolling some dice (the cube element) to see which idea would win. We would make it similar to a spaghetti western with close up eye shots and dramatic music. I bought some large styrofoam dice and on the day we had set to film, we decided on a new idea - an actual spaghetti western involving the cube dice instead of guns. This idea made the cube elements more prominent in the film, and added more elements of humour as we all wanted it to be an entertaining film. I'm proud of what we achieved in such short time, as we only had under a week to make this, taking into account that the interchange week was the same week.
Below is the final film, which I was the camerawoman for.

This week was also interchange week, and I chose to go to the Electromagnetic Sound Worlds as I've been interested in digital sound for a while but never gotten round to working with it. It was a whole day session where we learnt about Electromagnetic sounds and that they're all around us, we just need the software the record them. We were then given some recording appliances in groups, and given time to explore Norwich finding interesting sounds. We had some technical difficulties with our device, and had to use a different one which recorded sounds with vibrations instead so in the end we had less sounds than I would have wanted, but it was a fun experience nonetheless. In the afternoon we were shown the basics of the Adobe Audition and then allowed to edit our sounds how we wanted.