Friday 29 April 2016

Evaluation for soundtracks

At the start of this unit, we had to do 3 workshops. In the workshops we had to complete strip the scenes of their sound and redo all of the music, dialogue and sound effects. The movie that I done was a scene from Mean Girls, one from Paranormal Activity and one from The Wire. These all had different aspects to them and each came with their own strengths and weaknesses.

The first scene that I redone was a scene from Mean Girls when they are in the canteen talking. For this scene I took off all of the sound and rerecorded the dialogue. Before doing this, I listened to the script to make sure that I got it right when it came to recording it. As there was two people in the scene, I used the help of Audrey to do one of the voice overs. I also used foley sounds as I recorded the college canteen to make it sound more realistic instead of getting the sound off of the internet. I think that this was a better idea because if it was something from the internet it wouldn't have had the right atmosphere as something that was recorded by myself. When adding the voice recording to the scene, we were watching the scene as we recorded it so that it matched up as best as it could. However, in certain parts, the dialogue didn't quite sync in with the timing of their mouths moving.

In the canteen recording, you can hear conversations happening in the background which are a little bit loud which makes the voices of the two girls a bit quite. When editing the scene I think that I could have made certain parts of the foley sound a bit quieter by adding in volume envelopes so drown out the background conversations to make the main conversation the headline.

The second scene that I redubbed was from The French Connection. This was a non dialogue scene so all I had to do was put sound effects on it to make it sound realistic. When it came to editing this scene, I first listened to the original thing to hear where the different sounds and where to put the new sound effects in exactly.

For some parts in the second clip that I redubbed, I used different sound elements to make the scene look more realistic. For example, I used editing volume envelopes when it came to a part of the sound effect when the car scene changed to a train on the track. I used the sound envelope to make the car fade out for the train to fade in at the same time.

After watching the completed scene that I had done, I noticed that something was missing. Before the gun shot, the policeman can be seen moving his mouth as if he was shouting at the man that he is chasing telling him to stop. I think if I had the chance to redo it again, I would add a little more sounds to make it that one bit better. 

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