Sunday 6 March 2016

Sound editing in premier pro

These are screenshots from whilst editing the sound for my final piece, the first shows me adding among the first sound effects to the piece.


In this next screenshot you can see that the sounds have progressed greatly, however due to the time pressure that I was under I didn't take as many screenshots as I perhaps should have to document the process, however it mainly consisted of adding sound effects from the internet and trimming them so that they are the right length.


Sound Production and editing

I tried out a vary of different techniques to add sound to our media piece, my original idea was to create a backing track on the Ipad version of garageband, I managed to create some pieces that didn't sound terrible, however I found it quite hard to create a piece that had the right atmosphere for the piece.



This is what the garageband layout looks like.


These are all the songs that I made while experimenting with the software.

After experimenting with garageband on the Ipad I tried to create a backing track on the laptop version of garageband, however it had very little choice in terms of software instruments so was quite limiting.


Eventually I scrapped the idea of creating my own backing tack for the piece and decided to only use diegetic sounds, like is done in the opening of the film 'Goodfellas'. I did record a few original sound clips however I had technical difficulties such as the microphone not working and the sounds being ruined by wind, in the end I decided to download a majority of the sounds used from the internet, in particular a site called 'Freesound.org'. It was useful to use this site as it was free to sign up to and offered high quality soundclips however it was a bit limiting as it meant that some sounds did not align to the actions on screen properly, especially footsteps.


This is the layout of the freesound website, with me logged in as 'freelicksfitness'