For the Swede a Scene assignment, i joined a group consisting of me, Meredith, Sam, David, and Demi We began working on November 6th at the ITTC. Since this was our first meeting we just discussed what we wanted to do. We obviously weren’t going to swede an entire episode so we had to choose scenes. Scenes are easy to choose, it’s just the episode from which we choose the scenes from is hard. Since we were all pretty fresh with the recent episodes, we chose Episode 11 from Season 3. I’ll discuss the scenes we chose in bits. In total we decided to swede 4 scenes.
First Scene: Omar and Bow Tie Mousone
The beginning of episode 11 is crucial. It starts off with Omar walking down an alley with laundry during a very ominous night. Then Brother Mousone approaches him from far behind with a gun. Obviously if you have watched the episode you know which scene this is. The way we filmed this was a little tricky. David and i went through the scene recording down the script so we knew what to say. Since we chose teddy bears to represent the characters, it was just a voice over scene. After we got the script, David recorded his part separately and then i did mine. I wanted to be Omar so it would be a little funnier and Brother Mousone was voiced by David. After we recorded our lines, that it was for the scene. Since it’s a spooky scene, we recorded it in the parking deck behind Alvey. Keep in mind, this isn’t suppose to be serious. teddy bears as gangsters? Really? Hopefully you enjoy it!
Second Scene: Carcetti & Colvin
The second scene we chose to do from episode 11 was when Carcetti confronts Colvin at his home. Colvin is on the stoop of his home and Carcetti just rolls up. This is really important because this confrontation benefits both of them and it also involves the Hamsterdam situation which is huge in this season. It was a little different this time because Demi was the voice of Colvin and Sam for Carcetti. Other than that, it was the same. We dubbed the voices of the bear and put it all together. This scene wasn’t as funny as the first scene but it was still silly. Again, teddy bears? Laugh! Well, a quick change to this. Our video was pretty long compared to other videos made by our class so we decided to cut this scene. Don’t worry, keep an eye out for a blooper video/deleted scenes. I promise!
Third Scene: Getting Stringer (Second computer scene)
The next scene was when the detail finally gets Stringer on his phone. This was really interesting to film. Since i had the biggest laptop (ha yeah i’m awesome) we used it to look like the computer. We then had to get all the teddy bears possible and have them huddle around it. Since it’s a little difficult to make them move, we did the voices and had them sit there. It was a little awkward at the end when they’re all celebrating because when we recorded the sound, we were all like “ha ha ha…”. It sounded pretty fake but funny also! That was really the whole scene. I think it turned out fine!
Fourth Scene: Good night StringerBell
This was the final and most important scene of the episode. Stringer gets got. It really is sad scene but everyone saw it coming. It was either Stringer or Avon and Avon just got there first. Well, he leaked the information first. Anyways! The previous scenes filmed took roughly 3-4 hours. I figured we would be able to film all of this in one day but that wasn’t the case. I couldn’t spend another day filming because that week was seriously crazy for me. Since Omar has one line in this scene, i offered to record my audio and send it to Meredith when she was editing. This worked out. I wanted to be consistent with the Omar voice so i did it as best as possible. At the end of the day, it was okay that i couldn’t make it. The video itself turned out great. So, if you want more details on how this final scene was filmed, look at my other group member’s posts! Now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. The video! I’ll post it below. ENJOY!
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