Foley, Music, Trailer
Wow. Long time no update!
I’ve been busy editing the film and it’s really starting the come together. I’ve made adjustments to the shots, changed some, added some and visually the film is pretty much done. I think I’ve just about cracked the pacing, the film is still 35 minutes long, put everything seems to flow better now. I’ve masked the entire film shot by shot into a 2.35:1 ratio so it’s looking extremely wide and very cinematic! I’ve also been doing a lot of sound work. I always forget how much work sound editing is – there’s only ever going to be one track of video but so far I have over 10 tracks of audio! I’ve downloaded and mixed various ambient and foley sounds from freesound.org, a brilliant royalty-free sound effects site, but I’ve also been recording some sound of my own. Now that I have my own mic I’ve been doing some of my own foley, breaking celery, squishing cabbage, sharpening knives – make of these sounds what you will….! Once mixed into the film they sound awesome and now most of the film is finished sound-wise as well.
I’ve been adding some music to see how the film plays with some sort of rough score. It’s tricky, because I have some amazing songs that fit perfectly and I really want to use them in the film – but clearly I can’t charge people to come see it with copyrighted music in it. (The plan is to have a premiere at a local cinema then screenings at school.) The online version will definitely have these tracks in though. It’s almost time to hand over the work to Greeny, who’ll be scoring the entire film for me.
In other news a brand new trailer, as I mentioned in the previous post, will be released on Halloween! It’s absolutely fantastic, if I do say so myself. I’ve spent God knows how many hours on it, much more time than I ever have done on any trailer before, probably more time than the full-length editing of some of my other films! It has a professional voice-over and some amazing sound effects. It’s been ready for nearly two weeks but I wanted to space out the release of trailers, seeing as though I don’t plan on releasing the film until early next year. Also Greeny has been hard at work composing some amazing music for the trailer. He gave it to me yesterday and I was blown away, it’s a really catchy and completely unique sounding score. I can’t wait for him to do that with the rest of the film.
Which pretty much brings us back to the film itself. Greeny and the music is the next step forward, not counting colour grading which is what I’ll be doing over the next week with some new software, Red Giant’s ‘Mojo’ colour grading software. Considering it took Greeny two weeks to compose 1 minute of music for the trailer, and over the next few months Christmas distractions and then exam distractions begin, I’m glad I set a release date well into next year. The next problem is working out how to send the film to Greeny or whether he should work with me on the music at my house with my software… Decisions, decisions.
And that is about it. Expect a post on Halloween revealing Corpses’ official website and the brand new, full-length trailer!
