In our fifth lesson, we began with learning about motifs - which after researching and sharing, we found out that is the repetition of an element in ways that acquire symbolic meaning for the element. It can be a technical feature (a shot angle, a lighting set up), a sound or piece of dialogue or music, or an object, according to this website. Motifs are not only applied in films, they are used in literature and music as well.
Afterwards, we watched an old horror film named "M". As a class, we identified that the man's whistling in the movie is the motif that symbolises the presence of the murderer.
Then, we proceeded with our Foley group projects. We identified more sounds in the clip that we will have to replicate and recorded the dialogue for the clip with the help from two male classmates. Originally, we thought that we would do the voiceover ourselves, however, we decided that it would be more realistic and sensible to get guys to do the dialogue for us, since the characters in the clip are male. The process went smoothly; the only problem we had was finding a quiet place to record the sounds. We went to the empty classroom across our film classroom at first, however, the sounds of the wind and electricity could be heard clearly in our recordings. The same situation happened in the other classrooms. Zhu Laoshi then advised us to record the ambience sound and layer it under the other sound effects during the editing process in order to solve the issue. It would be a good idea to go to the music hall to record our sounds next time.
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