In today's lesson we did not actually produce any camera footage for the production of our film, however we did record the voice-over for our letter. Me and the rest of the group had created a letter in the previous sessions to be read out over the montage section of our film. We decided that in order to get the greatest result we would go and see if there were any willing students in the Drama department of the college, where we found our speaker - Andrew Thompson. Andrew spoke through our letter to get a feel of it, and then we took two recordings of it and we were extremely pleased with how it came out:
Me and the group used a piece of technological equipment we had not yet used in Media A-Level and we found it to be extremely effective. This device was known as a 'Zoom Box Audio Recorder', it was simple, quick and captured the speakers voice very clearly. When we had finished recording, we took down the speakers name so he could be included on the credits screen, and thanked him for helping us out. We then transferred the audio clip onto the Mac and opened up 'Garage Band'. As this was a 'love letter' or was at least supposed to appear this way, we decided to add some Echo and Reverb to the speech to create an almost glorified ambient feel. Strangely enough we found that the 'Gospel Choir' vocal effect worked particularly well for our letter, although we did alter the 'Master Echo' and 'Master Verb' to get the echo of the voice exactly how we wanted it. This was also one of our first experiences using the 'Garage Band' and I found it worked excellently for what we were hoping to achieve. Although the editing we carried out on the sound was arguably simple, it was enlightening nonetheless.
Risk Assessment
Although this was not technically a filming session, it did include working with various external members and using equipment so here is a short risk assessment assessing the various things we did:
Consent of actor
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