Video & Sound Production - Project 1 - Audio Editing Exercises
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2024.05.03 - 2024.05.19
Qistina Nuralya Maria Binti Azly / 0354180
Video and Sound Production / Bachelors of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Project 1: Audio Editing Exercises
Table of contents
1. MODULE INFORMATION BOOKLET (MIB)
2. LECTURE/ CLASS MATERIAL NOTES
1. MODULE INFORMATION BOOKLET (MIB)
This is the Module Information Booklet for this module:
2. LECTURE/CLASS MATERIAL NOTES
All lectures during this Project are documented in my Exercises blog post เดฆ്เดฆി(˵ •̀ แด - ˵ ) ✧
3. EXERCISES
3.1 Audio Dubbing
Progress:
Audio Breakdown Spreadsheet
During our class, we were separated into groups of 6 to create a draft of the Audio Breakdown Spreadsheet we would use for our individual Audio Dubbing Exercises. It was a bit tough to work through it since two of our groupmates couldn't understand English but we managed to divide the parts between us and managed to get out the rough breakdown (Fig 3.1) of the clip we were given (from Everything Everywhere All At Once).
After heading back, I expanded and amended the Spreadsheet on my own copy of the file. I changed things like the possible sound effects after going through the video clip multiple times. Then, I searched on freesounds.org and Envato Elements for my sound effects and ambience sounds.
Audio Dubbing and Editing
I recorded my voiceovers by using a recording mic I bought awhile ago for a personal project that could connect to my laptop. There was a problem though; my laptop's fan was being quite loud during my first round of voiceovers so I had to scrap them all and did my voiceovers almost a meter away from my laptop (╥﹏╥) (mic was still connected to laptop).
After that I followed the instructions Mr. Martin gave us during class and:
- Locked the 3 dialogue tracks
- Added 4 tracks for sound effects.
- Added 3 tracks for the ambience sounds.
Then I added all the needed sound effects whilst of course, creating the Ins and Outs of each sound clip to ensure they synced with the video or the famed "AudioJungle" voice lady.
Next, in the Effect Controls, I tweaked the audio levels for all the tracks making sure they followed:
- ~ -6db for dialogue
- ~ -20db for ambience
As for the sound effects themselves, I had to adjust differently for each sound clips. Like for the door breaking, I had to lower the audio level since the original sound effect was definitely too loud.
I also edited the audio within the Track Mixer but I didn't get a screenshot of that unfortunately.
Finally I exported the video! I uploaded the video to YouTube and got a copyright warning but luckily the video is unlisted so it won't actually be taken down (hopefully) (ใฃ- ‸ - ฯ).
Final:
3.2 Sound Shaping
Progress:
As we were instructed to record a 5 second I decided to record myself talking about going to see the new Transformers One movie:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TTHkgmgLtj0OjFUsM7_PkFCVs0xCPgUq/view?usp=drive_link
I started by trimming parts of the audio before anything to fit that 5 second window.
For the sound shaping, I'll list down the things I adjusted for each:
Phone Call
- Parametric Equalizer - to get that "digitally muffled" effect
- Distortion - to add a realistic feel to the voice call.
Inside Toilet
- Reverb - specifically the 'Wet' setting.
Inside Closet
- FFT Filter - to muffle the audio.
Underground Cave
- Reverb - leaning more onto the 'Dry' setting but also adding more Delay to get more echoing action to the audio.
Alien/Orc
- Pitch - one version where it's higher and one where its lower-pitched.
- Distortion - to get the alien "wobbly voice" feel.
- Layering the two pitched audios - to make that non-human feel.
Finally I applied all the effects to each of them and exported as .mp3s.
Final:
Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pImAss4QXrTEVeJ4uRWUJq77FX7pgH53?usp=drive_link
4. REFLECTION
I actually had a lot of fun for Exercise 1 since I got to voice all the characters in the video haha. I loved especially voicing Evelyn since she has the most dramatic dialogue (like her screams). Onto the editing though, I had a lot of fun for that too! It was slightly tiring to go through each sound effects though to just find the right one fit for the situation. Overall, I would be really interested to work on minor sound effects in the future ( ˶หแห˵ )
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