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.