Ollie Tristram

Features work I've made from late 2008 to the present.

For this artefact I moved on from musical genre as I felt artefacts 1 to 3 answered what I had set out to discover - how musical genre can affect the audience's perception of film.

I decided to look into Foley sound effects and how that can affect people watching film. Personally I think Foley is most notable during fight scenes, because the hit sounds are most exaggerated here than in real life and generally people recognise this.

The way I have gone about it is to find clips from different decades and survey people as to whether the older clips sound more or less realistic than the newer clips and whether realistic Foley sounds can help the audience become more involved with the film itself.

Here is the video:


Here is the survey:
Click here to take survey

With this artefact I wanted to use a film clip that was fairly neutral in emotion. The previous artefact was a fight scene so obviously the fast paced music worked better with it. In this clip I used a scene from Goodfellas but edited it to cut out the character pocketing a gun (as that would influence the audience's opinion of the character even without music) and also cut the scene before any conflict started. This gave me a neutral clip and allowed me to insert 4 different genres of music and survey people to find out how they felt the music affected the on-screen action.

One I had established my first artefact I went on to investigate how different genres of music affect the audience's perception of a film clip.

I chose this clip from Kill Bill with 3 different genres of music, all composed by myself in Apple Logic.



After watching the video I had arranged a survey to filled in with a few questions about the genres so I could gauge peoples' opinions.

Edited by Tom Pearson
Static Camera Jason Bickers
Mobile Camera Ollie Tristram

An animation into the DVD Menu for the work we are filming at university for BCS. The start animation will be displayed on a green screen where Brian, the presenter, will be introducing the DVD. As he finishes the menu will come into focus. This is not the final design.

(Above) Final design idea.
(Below) Final idea with tweaks after feedback.

A film created for BCS to use with one of their clients, Occam Networks. This was made as part of the DVD we are producing for our client module.

My first artefact for the PRP module of the course. I composed a piece of music to give to this car chase, which doesn't originally have one. The purpose was not necessarily for the music to fit with the film, but to show what the film could sound like had it had music originally. I then asked people their opinion on whether the soundtrack affected their perception of the film.



The outcome was that some people think it does improve the film, but then some people thought it worked better without... However, most people would've liked to have heard a more matching soundtrack with the film, which leads me onto Artefact 2...

First solid effort of a DVD cover for the client's work.

Nice flash animation my friend linked me to. Not related to my pathway but cool nonetheless and I'm sure the animation-bods will like it.

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf