The Adventures of Bethany Beddow

Last lesson .. final deadline

The music
We had more disappointing news's about the music, the choir leader said 10 minutes before we were meant to be recording that she didn't want the children t sing the lyrics in "I like it" song. Some of the lyrics were too "inappropriate for" for 10 year old's to sing.
As a replacement they sang Abba "Take a chance on me" because this was the only song we could only find that was appropriate for the children.
They wouldn't let us chance a few lyrics in the song so it was ok for them to sing therefore we just had to go with Abba and hope for the best.
After putting Abba with our sequence we decided it sound ok and have stuck with it.

Sequence
Today we completed our sequence with the final cake and put another cast's name on it using skittles and i stop motion. We are now going to upload it to the blog and have finished.
:)

Music crisis!!!!!!!!!

As you may know, the soundtrack for our film opening is a famous song called 'I Like It' by Gerry and the Peacemakers. However, we were given some devastating news that we would not be allowed to use it because we did not create it ourselves, yet we were told we could use a ready made sound track at the beginning of the project back in january!
LUCKILY, our teacher was not aware that we had organised for a children's school choir to sing the soundtrack and on our own accord we sent letters home asking parents for their permission for their choir to be used for educational purposes, of which we got 100% to go ahead. Their name will also star in our opening credits.
So, yay!

Teacher Comments

Further to our conversation in class yesterday, action points to take forward from the rough cut to final cut include (some of which you may have already worked on):

- Use fades to achieve softer transitions between the animated sequences with the credits, and the live action segments.
- Break up the shot with the flour tipping over with an insert to avoid using a jump cut.
- Create a soundtrack for your production company logo in Garage Band
- Replace the existing music track with the one you intend to use for your final cut (although I know this has yet to be recorded, but your plans are in place to do so on Wednesday according to our conversation)
- Remember to be shooting for a total running time of approximately 2 minutes (this looks to be happening so far)
- Is there going to be a title card with the name of the film itself somewhere in the sequence???

Production company soundtrack

Today we made the soundtrack for our production company, "underwater productions". We used Garageband to create the soundtrack. To start with we listened to lots of different bass lines to try and use one of them because we were going to layer lots of different sounds to create an individual sound. In the end though, we decided to just use a jingle which was already in Garageband. We tried to use different sounds with it but because it was quite busy anyway and its only for 5 seconds we decided to just keep the jingle on its own. We then added it into our finalcut and faded it in and out, and then the soundtrack carries on playing.