This was an exciting three days for Glyndwr University in Wrexham as it was hosting FFresh - The student moving images Festival of Wales.
The timetable schedule was between 11 and 12 am registration began when students of Glyndwr were then given passes to gain excess to the 3 days events.
Below are some images of the students signing in.
Some of the events sponsors were
The event that I attened on this day was called
Desiging the sound for - The Gospel of us.
A talk givern by Dai Shelly and Eleanor Russell
stills from the film we saw
a link below to a trailer of the film
I found this talk very interesting because it was another area as a viewer I didnt really think about. The sound side in what ever I watch seems to have gone hand in hand where in actual fact it is can be treated seperately into different sections.
This is a breakdown of how it was explained to us ....
Sound is split into:
Dialogue – conversation
Ambient – background noise
Soundtrack – Music and the Score
Foley – sound effects (SFX) – this is important for films which are intended to be sold abroad as the sounds can be recreated without the dialogue/voices which will need to be translated.
Foley is very interesting as it was something I thought was used only in plays over the radio etc but it is very much an "alive" industry. I had an insight into one of these studios of post-production last year on a uni trip to London. Basically a foley artist is someone who creates sound effects such as footsteps, breaking glass, doors opening etc.This can enhance nasound to any filming material needed.
We were firstly given a brief introduction to each speaker.
Dia Shell - his career was inspired by the sounds on Paul McCartney’s ‘Live and Let Die’.
He has done demos with bands such as Catatonia and The Super Furry Animals. He now has his own studios where he synchronises pictures with sound.Dai is also is a sound-mixer who works on TV dramas and films.
Eleanor Russell - is a freelance sound editor/designer. She has 25 years experience and has worked on animation , films and dramas. Some she has worked on are Indian Doctors series 3, Outpost and The gospel of us.
The Gospel of Us was filmed on location and it's based on the Owen Sheer's novel and screenplay and starred Michael Sheen in a three day Passion play which he acted out in his home town of Port Talbot in Easter 2011. Dave McKean – a world famous illustrator was the film director.
20,000 people were included as the audience and the crew had just 1 chance to get all the film they needed.
13 cameras were used on the film, along with 8 sound recorders.
There was multi-track recording on hard-disk – 4 were used on each location, plus a roaming one.
There was a PA system (with a microphone, amplifier and loudspeakers) in the background to try to eliminate sound delays
ADR – Automated Dialogue Replacement – the process of re-voicing the original dialogue after filming to get a cleaner soundtrack. Re-voicing may be needed to correct voice projection, inflection or lip sync.
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Live sounds experienced on location are always difficult and different to studio recording and this is where Eleanor and Dai came into working on the film together.
The process of auto-conforming post production increases sound quality by using an editing system which combines a timecode based edit decision list (EDL) with the original video and audio to produce a version of the edited video which is high quality.
Eleanor firstly as role of a sound editor is to interpret the mood of the film (e.g. to make things scarier, or like summer, etc). she is responsible for selecting and assembling sound recordings in preparation for the final sound mixing of a television program. Dai's role is to then create the final audio track for the film.
I enjoyed how the speakers taked about what their jobs entailed on the film. In layman's terms it meant that I could understand and stay focused on the content without being overwhelmed.
INTEREST - 10 /10
DELIVERY - 10/10
CONTENT - 10/10
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