A Dagenham Love Story - Evaluation
The
sequence we filmed is the story of a girl who is pregnant, and has been left by
her ‘partner’. The girl calls someone, and tells them that her ‘partner’ knows
about the affair. Then her lover arrives, who is a female. Then, her female
lover comforts and ensures that everything will be ok. But then as the female
lover tries to propose,she is cut short in her proposal, when the other girl’s
waters break.
During
the sequence we used all the listed sound techniques, but one. This was the
sound bridge, as it was difficult to decide what we could do for the sound
bridge.
In
the first shot we chose to use non-diegetic, off-screen, and contrapuntal sound
because it helped display how the girl was down and out and on her own. The
contrapuntal sound, (‘Knee Socks’ by Artic Monkeys) especially helps display
this as it shows she is on could struggle and be in trouble. In the next shot
we have on screen and diegetic sound, when the girl is calling her lover, to
tell her what has happened. Then we have off-screen sound, when we hear the
door swing open, and are looking at the girls face. Then we see who is at the
door, it is the female lover. In the next shot, the girls have a conversation,
which is diegetic and on screen sound, where they talk about what is going to
happen. In the next shot the pregnant girl gets up, and tries to leave. The
other gets up and tells her lover she has to tell her something. At this point,
we introduce parallel sound into the scene, (‘Love Story’ by Taylor Swift), to
help show how the scene is a loving and an emotional scene. But it doesn’t go
to plan as we hear an off-screen sound as the pregnant girl’s water breaks. At
this point the shots changes to the audience seeing the floor.
I
feel we captured the sound fine; however, it could have been better, as not all
the sound techniques were used, or used effectively. I found the sound
equipment easy to use within our filmed sequence, but some of the sound in the
sequence, before editing, didn’t come across well enough. We clearly showed the
difference between diegetic and non-diegetic sound, as we used conversations to
show diegetic sound and our soundtrack to represent non-diegetic sound. Also,
we conveyed the difference between on and off-screen sound, for we used the
girl crying for on-screen sound and her waters breaking for the off-screen
sound. Moreover, I feel we portrayed the difference between parallel and
contrapuntal sound well. This is because we used ‘Knee Socks’ for our
contrapuntal sound, when the girl is upset as it doesn’t completely match the
action of her crying. For the parallel sound we used ‘Love Story’, when the
lover tries to propose, for it easily represents the love within the scene.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, I do not think we used a sound bridge. Fortunately
the group know what a sound bridge is, but we did not put it into our sequence.
Overall,
in my opinion, the filmed sequence went well for the most part of the film. In
our filmed sequence I feel we used the parallel and contrapuntal sound well, as
it helped our scenes in the final edit of our sequence. However, I feel our
filmed sequence could have been much more successful, for example, when we were
recording sound it could have been much clearer. Also, within the filmed
sequence we could have used a sound bridge, for the group understood its
meaning, but unfortunately it didn’t make it into our film. Finally, although
this exercise was not entirely about the camera shots etc. I feel our camera
shots in this film were not as good as we had hoped, for we had already
completed a camera exercise.
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