During the planning and production of our piece, we aimed to split the management roles as evenly as possible. As there is only 2 members in our group, we both had a lot of work to do.
One of the things that I was primarily doing was composing the music. We decided as a group that this would make sense as I am quite musical and have a better knowledge of the technical aspects of music than the other members of my group. I studied the work of one of my favourite composers, Hans Zimmer, as he has composed the music for many famous thriller films, such as inception, Interstellar, The Dark Night trilogy and many more. Zimmer is known for his fresh approach to orchestral music, creating a style of electronic-classical fusion that is very much his own. This kind of music works well for thriller films as it is very easy to build suspense using a combination of synthesisers and classical instruments. The sole piece of technology that I used for creating the music was GarageBand, using their samples of music and mixing these with riffs that I had composed myself. To build tension, I made the music intensify and added layers gradually, creating a crescendo effect. I also added in 2 key changes, to increase the tension of the music, fitting with the film. I had to make sure that the building of the tension in the music was synced with the building of the tension in the film. I was also in charge of filming, and this involved setting up the shots, positioning the camera, giving direction to the actors and also organising the logistics. We used a tripod to ensure that the footage would not be shaky. We had some technical issues when uploading the footage as a member of our team left, and some of the important shots were in her possession. However, we decided as a group that we would have to try to work without these. Our videos also had very out of sync audio, which meant that we had to erase the audio completely. However, this was not too problematic as our music was effective and it also fitted with our style to just have music. Manisha and I did the editing together as she had better knowledge of the editing programme (Final Cut Pro) than I, and we worked together as a team to edit our piece.
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