Monday, October 7, 2024

Sound project!

 “Dearest gentle reader,” - Bridgerton

In the course of learning about sound, we learned about multiple techniques: synchronous sound, asynchronous sound, diegetic, non diegetic, sound motif/leitmotif, sound perspective, sound bridge, voiceover. Within the lesson, another important point learned was addressing the audience through: the mode of address, direct address, narrating “I”, epistolary voice, score, music, sting, and sound effects.


Moreover, the additional videos focused on Foley artists taught us about the process of how sound is applied through a post production stage executed by the Foley artists. Such a process was called this way due to Jack Foley who was the creator of this art. This process takes place in a specific room and three people are needed to complete it - the mixer, and two Foley artists - and make the magic happen! 


Magicians never reveal their secrets, but I will…Let’s dive into the sound project.


The sound project consisted of creating scenes based on only sound. It was a 1-2 minute scene which could only use seven words. In addition, we were required to include at least four sound effects created by us; the rest of the sound could be obtained from online sound effects databases. 


Now, let’s get to the fun part… My sound project was a car race scene, which I developed in the brainstorming process. My partner and I developed such scene as it includes multiple loud sounds, here is the outline that was created:

Scene: Car Race

1.        Getting ready

  1. Footsteps

  2. Wind in background

  3. Dab up 

  4.  Loud Chatter

  5. Footsteps

  6.   Car Door handle 

  7.   Door opening

  8.   Person sitting 

  9.    Door Close 

  10.    Key insert 

  11. engine roaring

  12.   Audience cheering

  13. Putting on gloves + touching steering wheel

  14. Cars revving 

2.        Countdown

  1. Crowd cheering

  2. 3... 2... 1... 

  3.    Flag sound 

  4.   Crowd cheering

  5. Goes quiet

  6. Breathing + heartbeat 

  7. Sound of car engine slowly coming back

  8. Car goes into gear

  9. Car engine roaring and tires skidding 

3.        During

  1.  Upshifting

  2. Wind

  3. Car engine roaring 

  4. Tires skidding 

  5. Cheering

  6. Gloves shifting around

4.        Finish Line

  1.  Crowd cheering

  2.    Cars zooming past 

  3.    Person 2 screaming + hitting steering wheel  

  4.    Person 1 yelling in excitement 

  5. Cars turning off 

  6.  Door open

  7.  Getting out of car/footstep

  8.    Door close

  9.   Footsteps

  10.  Pink slips trade

This was the outline created to guide us to film the sounds and find them in the databases. As we used most of it, due to timing, we had to exclude some sounds to make the scene be on time, yet it all worked out perfectly 🥳. The editing resource utilized was Adobe Premiere Pro and most sounds were acquired from Freedsound's database. (If you wish to take a look at how the timeline looked, here you go!)

Overall, all sounds worked perfectly with one another. Nevertheless, I would like to improve the timing of the projects, as it was difficult to add and remove certain sounds to make it under two minutes but properly convey the car scene. 

No matter the challenge, I was able to complete it… Here is for you to take a look: 

https://drive.google.com/file/dI /1i6P8P_djZSZRyCIA1aC808_dD1lpOquL/view?usp=drivesdk 


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