Update on sound

Sound foley experiment
Sound video  
Here is a link to one of kierons post who recently done a sound experiment followed by the link to his video where the experiment can be heard. 

Interesting find

I was just on youtube when I saw an advertisement for this new game coming out...

L.A. Noire Official Trailer 

From: RockstarGamesGB 

The all-new Official Trailer #2 for L.A. Noire, a dark crime thriller set amidst the corrupt and violent undercurrents of Hollywood's post-war Golden Age. L.A. Noire tells the story of WWII hero and aspiring young detective, Cole Phelps as he solves cases and climbs the ranks of the LAPD

I was intregued by this as it shows how the traditional genre of film noir

I was intrigued by this as it shows how the traditional genre of film noir - a crime drama is being modernised and filtered into today's society by a number of different ways, video games being one of them. 
This is quite encouraging as it suggests the younger people of today are actually fascinated and entertained by this particular genre, and although this game is most likely to be far more violent than what 1940-50 noir films would have been, we believe the type of audience attracted to this game will also engage with our neo-noir film. We've tried to consider the modern day circumstances by breaking conventions through styling, shots and editing.
Neo-noir includes most elements of film noir but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media that were absent in films noir of the 1940s and 1950s. 

In this specific scene of the trailer we can see the man holding a gun - this was a strong signifier used in most film noir, representing the man's power, he becomes threatening. 

This one also shows the conventional characters in a film noir, the anti hero and femme fatale being intimate. The details are so exact even down to the lighting, the dark shadowing. 

FINAL CUT VS IMOVIE

This is a printsceen of us attempting to edit our dummy role on final cut.
From experience at GCSE, we were all only used to iMovie, and final cut was far more complex and we found it highly difficult. We tried to follow a tutorial on the apple website, however because none of us are particularly familiar with macs and this program, we did in fact find it too difficult. We had troubles with even the simpilest of things such as; uploading our footage. We even discovered that our teacher was also experiencing issues with using the program.
Due to time contraints, and being realistic we thought it would be wise to stick with iMovie - something we were more than capable of using. We still believe our final piece will look of high quality, and will allow us to use a variety of effects. The only downfall we face is that there is a particular clip we need to crop due to a cluttered background ruining the mise-en-scene, we're hoping we'll be able to figure out how to do this on final cut for the purpose of just this clip.
Although final cut is more diverse we're happy to use iMovie, and will hopefully have more time in the future to try and discover how it works.