Before getting into the studio me and Ed made the decision that this initial session would be entirely based around getting everything into the Pro Tools session so we knew where we were before we even thought about recording, mixing and effects. We also scheduled for the director of the film to come in so they could have their input for musical cues and such.

I decided that it’d beneficial to find some potential music cue’s for the piece before this session began, assigning multiple different royalty free pieces of music for each individual cue. This was in part due to Dean Humphrey’s advice when it came to showing directors multiple different takes as it offers the director a role of importance in this stage, it was also incredibly helpful to the director as I can imagine they wouldn’t of wanted to spend hours searching through the web for relevant and fitting royalty free music. When initially showing the director the recommendations for each cue they shined away from some of my preferred choices however I wasn’t really offended as it’s what they see fit although, I did convince the director about the importance of adding a sting over the top of the music cue to create the same desired effect that my personal preferred track had within it. This was a point that Lucy got across well in her week 9 lecture, putting across the important of not taking offense to a director not being as passionate about an aspect you personally see as fitting.

Once we had selected the music cue’s. Me and Ed went through the project and made vigorous notes on foley to record and potential effects to assign, this would important as it meant we wouldn’t go into day 2 blindly.