Week 11/12 - Editing Process

I started off my edit by getting rid of the original sound of the video clip. This was done using premiere pro. once deleteing the sound of the clip I simpy exported it and opened it up in Audition.

I then matched up all my foley sounds. I first did all the sounds that appeared a few times throughout the clip such as footsteps and dog noises.



After that was done, I moved on to the scifi bit of the clip, when the dog turns into the 'superhero dog'. I wanted to layer several different sounds o to this part of the clip to make it as out of space, fictional I could.

For the slow motion bit I wanted it to go from being quite loud to silent, however complete silence did not work well so I added in a very faint ambient noise. When I later added in music I also left the music but at a low volume.

After adding in all the sounds I watched the clp and realised it did not feel right and that there was something . I then decided to add in music which changed the sense of the clip drastically. I sued cheerful music for the first section and a more haunting/evil tone of music for when the girl looks through the binoculars.

Throughout my edit I created fades on each sounds as I felt some bits needed to be louder than others and it worked well when transition from one soundscape to another.

Week 11 - Sounds in my Final clip

In this post I will talk about where the sounds in my final clip were sourced from.

Foley Sound

In my final project I used some of the foley sound that I created in the foley studio. This was mainly footsteps of the man and girl, this was done in the foley studio as it made the process easier as the steps would automatically synch up.

The puppy footsteps were also done in the foley studio, again so that it would synch up easily.

The sounds of the puppy were created by ruffling a jumper , this was done while watching the clip so that it would match the clip as the puppy moves.



BBC SFX



















There were some sounds that I did not manage to create myself, such as explosions and lazer noises. Therefore I got these sounds out of the BBBC SFX folder. This allowed me to layer multiple sounds on top of each other to create a more convincing sound piece.

As I didn't have access to a dog, I also got the general dog/puppy barking noises from the bbc sfx sounds.



Freesounds.org

I got the music in my clip from freesounds.org, a website that allows one to search for different sound effects an music, allowing you to use it under the creative commons license.

The creative commons license is a public copyright license that allows the free distribution of work that would otherwise be copyrighted.

This allows one to share the material, remix and create their own version as long as they do not get any money off of the product. Therefore as I'm a student and creating this sound clip for purposes of my course I was able to use the sounds off of this website freesounds.org.

Week 10 - Foley Studio

In one of our workshops, we went down to the foley studio and were shown how it worked. We each had a turn to use the mixing controls as well as create the foley sounds.

We were told about how in order to get some sounds, we must think of completely different ways in achieving this sound. For example, biting a carrot would be an animal biting a bone or a feather duster could be birds wings.


Later in the week, me and 4 others book rout the foley studio in order to get some foley sounds for our chosen clip. At first it proved difficult as we didn't manage to connect it so that as the sound was recorded it synched up to the project. It was also difficult as we had 4 projects to get done within 4 hours.

However working as a team we managed to get it done. The sounds I needed for my project were footsteps, puppy footsteps, general noises of a puppy etc.


















A few days later, I booked the studio and 4 of us went to create the foley sounds we needed for our clip. We set up both the Senheizers but couldn't manage to set up the mixing control.

This meant that the foley sound would not automatically synch up. As we only had 4 hours to get each persons foley sounds done, we decided to watch the clip and recreate the sounds as they come.

To make it easier in the edit before starting the clip we spoke into mic mentioning what this sound would be. We also did multiple sounds at once, for example I was one set of footsteps and someone else created the puppy footsteps.

Week 9 - Sorting sounds I need

This week I started to think of what sounds I would need for my clip and some possibilities of how I'd create these sounds.

List of Sound I need to record

footsteps
puppy noises - twitch, scratch, yawn, dog pounce, tail wag, multiple puppies jumping/barking, lick
squeeky toy
chain/collar ting
electronic whirling nosies - hair dryer, oven noises, tires screetching,  bacon cooking, beep, popcorn, washing machine
bottle squeeks
cars
street atmos sound
hoover (backwards?)
jump
closing magazine
dog footsetps / human footsteps
door closing (fast)
car screech
dog running ( sped up)
do fierce
car tires

Some of the sounds like footsteps, jumps, dog footsteps etc I will create in the foley studio.
Other sounds such as cooking bacon, hoover etc I will record with the senheiser mic at my flat.

Week 8 - Exporting test sound clip

This week i finished editing the Protools whistle clip and tried exporting it.

I found that when exporting the entire session it just exported it as a .wav file so the video did not appear only the sounds. Therefore I had to export it into premiere pro and then export it from there.

Below is my final edit of that clip.

Week 7 - Audition

To familiarise ourselves with the software audition, we were asked to choose one of the two clips and edit the sound to t using the bbc sfx sounds.



When adding on many sounds, it is easier and good practice to dd each new sound onto a different track. To make it even easier for yourself one may change the name of the track to the actual sound. This enable you to then easily change the volume of a particular track in the mixer section. 

I did not do this for this project, however now that I know I will be able to do it for other projects which would make it easier.

 The 2nd tool is the razor blade tool, this is used to cut the sounds.

You can then move the different sections of the sound around.

To add an effect onto a sound, you must select the individual sound and have it in waveform instead of multitrack. Tis then allows you to access the effects, giving you various choices of changing the pitch, reverb etc.


Once selecting an effect the line on the track will show you how the effect will go. For example when selecting the effect 'squirrely', the line goes up and down but when selecting 'up a whole step' the line just goes up as the name suggests.

Week 6 - Potential sound clip

This week we discussed our chosen film clip.

I originally had 2 sound clips, one was a clip from home alone and the 2nd was a clip from Bolt.

I felt that the Bolt clip would let me be more creative, as it was an animation which allowed me to explore completely different sounds and did not necessarily have to be realistic.

Below is my chosen film clip. I've chosen to use the first 2 minutes of this clip and will recreate all the sounds changing it accordingly.

Week 4 - Brighton Sounds

Week 4 task: Recording sound in Brighton

This week we were assigned the task of getting different sound sin Brighton. I booked out the Sennheisser mic and the hydrophone. We used the Sennheisser to get street sounds, bicycle noises, general atmospheric sounds, footsteps on the beach, footsteps on the pavement.

We used  the Hydrophone to get sounds of the sea and under water

Week 4 - Jack Foley Presentation

In week 4 Maddie Tod and I presented our presentation to the class. Our presentation was about Jack Foley.

Week 3 - Hydrophone

Sound and Image 

Hydrophone -

Here we used the hydrophone to get sounds we couldn't necessarily get with the other mics, as the hydrophone is a microphone designed to be put in liquid.  Here we put it in a cup of coke.

We then listened to the sounds on the computer and realised the sound of the bubbled sounded like frying bacon.

Week 2 - Senheiser K6

Senheiser K6 - 

In week 2 we took out the senheiser K6 and went out around campus recording different sounds. 

We used this specific mic because it enabled us to capture sounds a normal mic could not. As this mic picks up sounds from further away making it sound clear.