ENG 229 11.R: Sound, Interviews, Kalman

Today’s Plan:

• 5 Year MA
• Extra Credit Opportunity: Making the Hollywood Blockbuster
• Checking in on Interview Responses [11:00-11:15]
• Sound [11:15-11:25]
• Lining Up an Interview Take 2 [11:25-11:50]
• Kalman Comment and Chat [11:50-12:15]

Making the Hollywood Blockbuster: Screenwriting

Alvaro Rodriguez (Chicago Fire, Machete, Dusk til Dawn Series, Seis Manos, Rust). November 13th, 6pm. Lindou Auditorium (basement of Michener).

Checking in on Interview Responses

Let’s keep track of responses in this document.

Here is our current list of interview participants:

• Prof. Peterson, Phil 100 Trip, Leona, Ben
• Prof. Finan, ASLS 160 Elijah, Easton, Braeden
• Prof. Weber, ASLS 160
• Prof. Romulo, ENST 100 Lauren, Juilanne, Jonathan
• Prof. Denny, Writing Center Tiffany, Anna, David [Get some B-Roll of the WC’s new sign]
• Prof. Kraver, 262
• Prof. Bailey, 225
• Prof. Kraver and Bailey, Revised EED Major Abby, Katherine, Keelie, Sofia, Sydney
• Prof. DeWitt Carl, Austin, Gideon

Sound

Let’s try an experiment to get a sense of audio quality.

Let’s try an example now and upload the audio and video files to our collective google drive.

Now let’s try a sync. Here is a video tutorial that has a really quick way and a really precise way to sync audio.

If we have time left in class today, I’d also like to work on adjusting the audio volume of sound again.

• Let’s make sure our phone volume is maxed out and our mic is clear
• Let’s check the quality setting for our voice memos

Here is the drive to upload our sample(s).

Kalman

I’ve got an activity planned for Canvas.

For Next Class

On Thursday, the 21st, I will reward credit for progress on the Kalman project. I will ask you to share whatever raw footage you have collected by that point. There is no scheduled homework between now and Thanksgiving save to conduct your interview/capture B-Roll and work on the Kalman project.

Next week’s class sessions will be dedicated to creating an opening credits for our new video. We will all use the same stock footage as a sample (video collected last year).