You Are What You Eat

While going through my sound reports as part of the editing process, I came across these beautiful gems from my audio engineer, Ricky Haas (a.k.a. Richard L. Haas III), describing the quality of the audio recording for each shot. Not only do many of them feature vocabulary that I would not typically relate to sound recording, they reveal a full-throttle wit and willingness to have fun! They brought a smile to my face during the tedious editing process, so I decided I had to share them with you, dear reader:

Scene | Take | Remarks
BB      3         "Way Better Dude"      ...and indeed, it does get better!
BB2    1         "Tasteful"
BB2    3         "Pristine and Beautiful, like an Arctic Glacier"
BB2    5         "Fan-freaking-tastic; potentially 'da best"
Broll   1         "Hysterically wonderful"
Broll   2         "Brilliant, in the way British people describe awesomeness"
B1      6         "Not bad, as the Obama meme says"
Room tone    "Way better, virtually sound (pun intended!)"

And of course, my favorite sequence...

BA1   3         "If this take was my child, I'd be proud of it"
BA1   4         "Good; as compared to the last take, this is my niece"
BA1   5         "Rivals take 3; let's call this "Gary Oak""

Those of you who have taken a capstone class at Fairfield know what an "aesthetic research presentation" is, so feel free to skip to the bottom. For those of you that haven't, a brief overview:

The term "aesthetic" is probably familiar to you, as you've most likely heard objects called "aesthetically pleasing" or perhaps you've studied it in philosophy class. Here, we are referring to  the overall look/sound/feel of a film. As the director, I had to do research to determine how I wanted to create the world within my film - what would characters look like? Where would they be? How would we make the locations fit the theme of the film? This research culminated in the following presentation:

The Look of "You Are What You Eat"

Luckily for me, I had already filmed while I was putting this together, so there are a few sneak peeks of make-up/costumes/locations, as well as short clip from one of the many endings to my film!
Most of it probably won't make sense without my narration, but feel free to peruse ;)

Happy spring break!

(Presentation by Prezi.com , by the way. I highly recommend!)