Wednesday, 6 June 2018

LO4: Carry out the post-production edits to the soundtrack.

To make the dialogue sound more like the recording of a believable event, the recorded dialogue was then taken into Adobe Audition, which is professional sound editing software which is used by professional business to edit their sound products.

During this process, I found a group of sound effects on the website Freesound.org, which allows me to download required sound effects which are royalty free, therefore using those sound effects will not land me in any copyright issues with my final product.

The sound effects used are listed below:

Willard by Gengis Attenborough - a guitar song I used to create the impression that the two characters were watching the end credits of a film, the song also gave the product more comedic value I believe to the obscure jazzy nature of the song.

LINK: https://freesound.org/people/genghis%20attenborough/sounds/212796/

Door-creeking-open-hinge-rusty by Stiffman - a sound of a door opening which is placed before Mr Grooper speaking in order for it to be clear to the audience that he has just entered the room.

LINK: https://freesound.org/people/stiffman/sounds/381963/

Punch-remake by Ekokubza123 - a song which sounds like a comical slapstick punch, to be used when Mr Grooper punches Fred out into space for insulting his TV.

The final visual edit of the sound product can be seen below:


All the audio was arranged in a way which prioritised the narratives timings, in order to increase the comedic value of the final product.

Adobe Audition also allowed me to lower the volume of certain tracks, in order to keep the sound more balanced, this was used in the second section of the soundtrack, where the music is turned down in order for Freddy and Doopys dialogue to be heard more clearly. The music however is completely cut off when Mr Grooper enters the room, in order to signify the sense of a authority in the narrative (since Mr Grooper is Freddy and Doopy's boss). A screen shot of me lowering the volume of that specific track can be seen below:



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