This week is filming week for the experimental films, Danielle and I had a very clear and concise structure and schedule which has come in our favour. We have scheduled this film to only take two days to film as most of the it is effects in the post production, and all the production footage is archive, and film shot ourselves with a DSLR.
So, this morning we scheduled to meet at ten am this morning to collect a sufficient bank of archive footage we felt was relevant. We wanted to source clips that showed old technology such as old computers and televisions to show how much technology has changed. The first video we came across was Steve Jobs presenting the first Mac computer. We agreed we both liked this as everyone has an association with Apple products, most people own a piece of Apple technology, people will be able to connect with it.
From this clip, we went on to find an old mobile phone commercial we felt was fitting, and a Gameboy advert that we could use for our archive footage. We then decided to look for Glitch videos for inspiration to get ready for filming. We found so many videos for inspiration, as we liked the abstract shapes, and also the saturation of the colours, so this is something we are drawing inspiration from. Listed below are some links to the videos we got inspired from:
From our initial Digital Materialisation short film, we used an online robot called Eviebot to record what she said. As we liked the robot likeness to her voice and lack of depth and a monotone sound to give a cold sinister feel to the words. However with Eviebot we couldn't get her to say exactly what we wanted, you just had to type things and use chance that she would say something we felt was good to record. Nevertheless, we did some searching and found a website that we could type exactly what we wanted and use some effects on the website to change the pitch, tone, length and gender of the person and their voice. Here is the website listed down below:
Using this website we found a voice, pitch, length and gender we felt was best suited to create the same sinister, cold tone like Eviebot. Using this website was far more effective as we could get the exact results we wanted and didn't have to leave the results to chance, like with Eviebot. We recorded a preview of what the website gave us and the sound we wanted to achieve:
After realising we could get this robot to say exactly what we wanted, we came up with a script of things we think would be best suited for our voice over. listed below is the script we devised:
2.Slide to unlock
3.Digital overload is now central to the human condition
4.Our brains are wired
5.You have forgotten where the off button is
6.Are you feeling overwhelmed?
7.Just check the internet for five minutes
8.Control alt delete
9. Escape
10.You cannot escape
11.You have no identity without the internet
12.Who are you without the internet?
13.You’re hiding behind a screen
14.Don’t be afraid we’re all watching you
15.You let the world comment on your existence
16.Hashtag no escape
17.You have a notification…
18.Share your location with me
19.Don’t you trust me?
20.Lol
21.Lmao
22.Omfg
23.Fml
We then went on to spend the rest of the day recording the voice over exactly how we wanted ready to cut down and edit in the post production.
I hope you enjoy. Thank you.
This robot is very old fashioned robot style - modern computer voices are more alluring and in a way more scary like Siri or the computer voice in 'Her' by Spike Jonze. I was wondering if there's a reason you have gone for this style of voice?
ReplyDeleteBut I like the use of the voice though.
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