Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Edititing Sound

Sound was a big issue in our media task as we wanted it to sound realistic and not too cliche so that our film was serious to an audience.

We decided more or less straight away to not use any soundtracks in the background just so all the focus is upon the situation and doesn't detract attention.

Initially we copied the first piece of background noise which was around 2 minutes across the entire opening of our film so that it was a constant sound. However, when listening to this using headphones the continuity of the sound was not perfect, as you could hear the sound of aeroplanes flying past stopping and starting.

Therefore we decided to record sound in today's lesson for one minute which could be added from garage band into the opening section of our film. However, as every small noise is picked up this meant that you could hear vague talking and loud sound from far away so we could not use this.

After a lot of searching we finally chose to use a backing soundtrack of bird sounds from garage band. We initially did not want to use this as it sounded not as realistic as we hoped, however, after turning the audio down very low, it did sound successful in our film. We were pleased with the outcome as once we had faded in and out the sounds it fitted perfectly when Amy opens the front door to start her 'routine'.

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