Shaun of the Dead: Final Product

Planning documentation: Shaun of the Dead.

Shaun Of Dead Production

Sounds needed list:

• Foot steps in outside
• Hitting the roadblock with the shoe
• Yawning
• The man’s running
• Breathing
• Winds
• Zombies moan
• Foot steps inside
• Scratching/ itching hair
• Fans
• Fridge opening and closing
• Drink cans sound
• Slipping sound
• Freezer opening and closing
• Noise of food package from the freezer
• Money/ coin noise

Sounds	How I make it?	Props
Foot steps in outside	Use our shoes	Shoes on outside
Hitting the roadblock with the shoe	Kick the roadblock with shoes	Shoes and roadblock
Yawning	Use person to make a sound	Person
The man’s running	Use person to make a sound	Person
Breathing	Use person to make a sound	Person
Winds	Go to outside	Winds
Zombies moan	Use person to make a sound	Person
Foot steps inside	Use our shoes	Shoes inside

Scratching/ itching hair	Use person to make a sound	head
Fans	Use laptop fans/ Office have fan	Laptop/ Office
Fridge opening and closing	Tesco fridge	fridge
Drink cans sound	The drink cans	The drink cans
Slipping sound	Use the shoes on the water to make a sound	Shoes and water
Freezer opening and closing	Tesco fridge	fridge
Noise of food package from the freezer
Money/ coin noise	Our coin	The coin

Animation Foley: Evaluation

Princess Monosoke Evaluation

When everyone was put into/ chose groups for the soundtrack project, I was paired with William Horsefield, Who originally wanted to do the ‘Akira’ clip. This was wills choice but as I am not good with vehicle sounds, I suggested the ‘Princess Monosoke’ clip as we both could provide the sound this and I could include my knowledge of weaponry and armour to help make the Foley.  We both began on the pre-production, which I am not really good at so that could have been improved.

I became ill and William was on his own when it came to producing the sounds at first but when I turned up, we managed to begin making the sounds. William had made some sounds, which I commented on which were good and which were bad, such as Williams Flying arrows and Running horse sounds were good. Will let me take part in trying to edit but because I had never used Sony Vegas Pro so William decided to teach me about it and taught me the basics of the programme. When it came to creating the sounds, I tried to get hold of a real bow for the sounds but my friend’s bows did not have enough poundage in the string to create the sound of the string and I ran out of time when it came to contacting the people who could provide one so We opted that out for using elastic bands as they can have the tension and the elasticity to create an almost similar sound. Sound sounds were harder to create than others, such as the voices as there was no script and where we filmed unfortunately created an echo in our voices.

I believe that if we were given more time to create the sounds, we could have produced much better Foley and even turned the green-screen room into a Foley studio. That way, there would be little to no echo occurring and we could have planned out how to make each sound better. This way, we could have also improved our sound quality and help them sync in with the clip on an improved level. During editing, We tried to as some echoes to some sounds and remove the echoes for our voices but this was to no avail and we could not figure out how to do this, not even with the help of our tutors, Gary and Scott.

Princess Monosoke: Final Product

Planning Documentation: Princess Monosoke Shot list

	Timeplan	Shot Description	Foley	Soundtrack
	2 Secs	Rider escapes arrows	Flying arrows, hooves, cloak, quiet wind	War Drums
	3 Secs	Rider puts face mask on	Cloak, hooves, mask, quiver, quiet wind	War Drums
	2 Secs	Riders perspective, sees people running	Hooves, Distant crowd, Animal quiet wind	War Drums
	1 Sec	Samurai shops defencless civilian	Soldiers, sword, civilian	War Drums
	1 sec	Rider prepares arrow	Animal, hooves, rider, quiver, bow, quiet wind	War Drums
	1 sec	Rider aims and something wrong with arm	Clothing, Breathing, Bow, Hooves, quiet wind	War Drums
	1 sec	Rider winces in pain	Rider in pain, breathing, clothing, hooves, quiet wind	War Drums
	1 sec	Rider takes the shot	Sparks, Arrow, Quiver, Hooves, quiet wind	War Drums
	0.5sec	Camera follows the arrow's tragectory	Fast wind, Arrow	War Drums
	1sec	Arrow hits samurai's arms	Arms coming off, Arrow	War Drums
	1 sec	Arms and Katana stuck to tree	Tree thud, Arms flopping, leaves	War Drums
	3 secs	Samurai's look confused, lady escapes, Rider gets past	Basket, Soldiers, Peasent, Rider, Animal, Man falling over, quiet wind, following Rider	War Drums
	3 secs	rider wincing in pain, checking his arm	Rider in pain, breathing, clothing, hooves, quiet wind	War Drums
	3 secs	Two samurai horseman parallel to rider	Distant hooves, quiet wind, Hooves	War Drums
	2 secs	Rider notches an arrow ready	Bow, Hooves, Animal, Quiver, quiet wind	War Drums
	1 secs	First samurai horseman shots an arrow at rider	Distant hooves, quiet wind, Hooves, Arrow getting louder, fast wind	War Drums
	1 sec	Rider leans back and dodges, Shoots at samurai	Rider, Hooves, Animal, Clothing, quiet wind, Bow	War Drums
	1 sec	Arrow flys through the air.	Fast wind, Arrow	War Drums
	2 secs	First Samurai is decapitated	Metal sound, Thud (Decapitation), Horse hooves	War Drums
	4 secs	Rider rides into the distance	Hooves, Rider, Quiver, all gets quieter	War Drums follow Rider and stop
	5 secs	Second samurai stops, yells while dead samurai falls off horse	Body falling, Thud, Metal, Horse grunts, Samurai	Nothing
	Sound needed	What will be done?
	Cloak in wind	Wave a jacket through the air	*
	Quiet wind	Either breath of wind	*
	Loud Wind	Use the wind	*
	Flying arrows	Record arrows flying through the air	X
	Clothing	Rustling clothing	*
	Quiver	Either Use real quiver or lots of pencils	*
	Drawstring	Bow's Drawstring	X
	Sparks	Two old coins	*
	Breathing	Breathing	*
	Metal sounds	Lots of change (coins)	*
	Body falling	Plastic wire holder (Green screen room)	*
	Samurai	Our voices	*
	Rider	Our Voices	*
	Basket	Kick a Woven basket	*
	tree Thud	Use a table	*
	Arms flooping	Hit a piece of meat	*
	Decapitation	Plastic Cable holder (Green screen room)	*
	Grass	Rub clothing	*

Planning Documentation: Princess Monosoke plan

Plan: Princess Monosoke

We have chosen the animation from ‘Princess Monosoke’ to create the Foley sound for.

Location for sound recording:

• -       Green room
• -       Empty classrooms
• -       York College grounds.

Sound required:

1. -      Cloak
2. -       Hooves
3. -       Quiet wind
4. -       Loud wind
5. -       Flying arrows
6. -       Mask
7. -       Clothing
8. -       Quiver with arrows in
9. -       Bow and drawstring
10. -       Rider in pain X2
11. -       Sparks
12. -       Breathing
13. -       Animal sounds (Talbuk, horses)
14. -       Metal sounds (armour)
15. -       Falling bodies
16. -       Samurai sounds (Deaths, Angry, Yelling, Character lines)
17. -       Basket
18. -       Tree thud
19. -       Limbs flopping
20. -       Decapitation
21. -       Grass being walked upon
22. -      Soundtrack: War-Drums.

Props required for Foley:

1. -       Pencils
2. -       Paper
3. -       Form of metal (Coins)
4. -       Bow with quiver
5. -       Our voices
6. -       Wind
7. -       Weaved basket
8. -       Clothing
9. -       Footsteps
10. -       Cardboard box (For War-drums)
11. -       Wall.
12. -       Our Bodies.

Foley: Why does it prevent copyright issues?

Why Foley Prevents Copyright issues

Foley can prevent copyright issues for a multitude or reasons. The reasons behind this is that the Foley is created for a certain project and collaborated together in post production meaning that the Foley sounds overlap each other. Because the Foley is overlapped with all the over audio including soundtrack, characters talking and other Foley effects, It is near impossible to extract the sound from the project and the other method is to recreate the sounds, which means that you have created it and the copyright belongs to you.

Foley sound is also sound created from ordinary items and ordinary sounds that are heard on a day to day basis unless specified are not subject to copyright after all, Is it easy to copyright the sound of any old creaking chair? I do hope not.