Intentions: Score

Whilst I continued to storyboard, Coupy began to look for music to put to our film opening. I suggested that we contrasted the trail of events by opting for a classical piece in order to catch the audiences’ attention somewhat. The website ‘Audio Network’ was recommended to the class by Mr Jackson so this gave us a starting point in order to begin our search for an appropriate piece of music.

Coupy showed me a few tracks that could potentially work, and not long after we made a short list. We listened to each track a few more times and eventually decided upon Ian Hughes’ – ‘Elegance’. The track can be heard below.

As previously planned, we intend to use this score both diagetically and non-diagetically in our film opening.

Test Footage

Over the weekend, Coupy had a practise with the StradiCam in preparation for our filming sessions over the Christmas holidays.

Steadicam Practice

Upon discovering that I would in fact have to use the steadicam during filming, I thought I’d better get a bit of practise in. I watched a few videos on YouTube, which as it turns out are fairly unhelpful, and then resorted to just having a play with this new equipment. It took me around 15 minutes to balance up the weights correctly in order for the device to stay steady in my hand. And that’s when I had my dumb blonde moment… I had been charging the battery, so forgot to put it back in the camera. Upon putting the battery in, I discovered this added an extra few pounds to one side of the camera; thus completely throwing it off balance and declaring the past 15 minutes of careful weighing pointless.

But none-the-less, I re-balanced the device and managed to get the hang of handling it. All in a good days work!

Album Review: The Kooks – ‘Inside In/Inside Out’

First released in January 2006 by Virgin Records, the album was a great success for the new indie-rock band, The Kooks, reaching number 2 in the UK album charts, and selling over 2,000,000 copies worldwide since it’s release eight years ago. The album flows seamlessly from song to song and yet still ranges from softer love ballads such as ‘Seaside’ to more roudy tracks such as ‘matchbox’, describing the evens of a ‘lad’s nigh out on the town’. However, my personal favorite song on the album has to be ‘Sofa Song’ – just a small peek inside the mind of your average, British lad.

The Brighton boys write everyone of their songs based on their own experiences and thought processes, making the music accessible to everybody who had been through, or is in, the young adult stage of life. The events they sing about are pretty bog standard as far as day to day life goes, but this is what makes their lyrics so relateable, and I’m sure that any Kooks fan such as myself would tell you, this is what makes the band so lovable and curiously charming.