Video and Sound Production Project 1: Audio Editing Exercises
04/04/2022 - 16/05/2022 (Week 2 - Week 8)Evaleez Voo Lian Yun / 0350275
Video and Sound Production/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Project 1: Audio Editing Exercises
Instructions
Task
1. Audio - Sound for Visual
For this task, we were given a video clip from the movie "Soul". In the video, the man is talking to a cat while remisniscing on his time on Earth. Were were then required to identify the visual components from the video clip that needs sound.
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| Fig 1.0 Voiceover Recording (22/04/22) |
For the voice of the man and the cat, I decided to record the voiceovers on my phone because the microphone on my laptop is bad. It took a few tries to get the emotion and timing right. However, I was still pleased at the recordings I had.
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| Fig 1.1 Combining Video and Sound (22/04/22) |
After importing the voiceovers from my phone, I started compiling them to the video. For sounds that I could not record myself, i.e. leaves rustling, cars passing by, city ambient sound etc, I downloaded from freesound.org.
Final Output
2. Audio - Sound Shaping
For this task, we were given a tutorial on how to use the parametric equalizer in Adobe Audition. Here we were taught how to edit sounds to create a certain environment/ vibe to the original audio.
In total, we were tasked to do five different sound shaping exercies:
- Voice of phone call.
- Voice coming from inside of closet.
- Voice of big stadium.
- Voice of toilet/bathroom.
- Underground cave.
Final Output
3. Audio - Sound Shaping
For this exercise, we were first taught about the four important sound design techniques:
- Time stretching/ compression
- Pitch Shifting
- Reversing
- Layering
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| Fig 1.2 Explosion (08/07/22) |
For the explosion sound, I tested a few effects and found that the reverse definitely did sound like the start of a bomb. Hence I placed in in front before the original explosion. Besides that, I also added some echoes to the sound with a lower pitch, this gavea form of reverb or more like "the aftermath" of the bomb. Afterwards, I tweaked the reverse sound a bit more by lowerig down the pitch in an extreme manner and it helpe to connect the start and ending sound of the bomb.
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| Fig 1.3 Three Punches (08/07/22) |
I ahd the same process for the three punches where I played around with the effects and try to compile them into something nice. Besides pitch, I also tweaked the audio with the parametric equalizer.
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| Fig 1.4 Alien Sound (08/07/220 |
For the last audio, I chose the line "fried noodles" and tried to reverse it. To my surprise, it sounded a lot like an alien! i then made a few for tweaks to the audio and it was ready to be exported.
Final Output
Reflection
The audio exrcises was really fun. I especially enjoyed the first exercise where we could create our own voiceovoer for the character. Although I learned a lot on the effects we could use in Adobe Audition, I still think there is some room for improvement as I'm still not familiar with the UI. I believe that if I were to work on it more, I would have a firmer grasp on how to fully utilise the software.
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