Final project
Evaluation
For this project I had to do some researched on foley work and an artist. This gave me a vague idea on how foley artist make sounds for movies, tv shows and some games. Foley work is a big part of the media work for example the noise for a gun cocking would be a door deadbolt be locked. To get most of this information I had look at different sources. For the lesson where the rest of my class recorded the sounds, I missed the lesson so a class mate of mine gave me his sounds.
For my practical work I did above I was given a video with no sound which is the one you see above and then a bunch of random sound then we put all these sound files into a software call garage band then we had to label each sound with what I thought the sound was for example the sound file 1 sounded like knock so I labelled it knock. The knocking sound is used around 6 times then we had to perfectly sync up the noise to the video. I did not use some sounds because there was some talking in the background so I could not use the sound and some of the sound I did not use them because there was no way I could fit the sound in for example, the sound of the piano did not come in use, so there was no use for them some of the fixes for these was to go to a quiet place of the college and do not to record too much sound and that way we could have saved time too.
After we put all the sounds in garage band. The thing that I liked was that I could put any noise I wanted for each part of the video so like for the part when he is shaking, I used the noise of some pens rattling in the box and I also changed the frequency a bit so it was more blended in the final work. I had to get it perfectly in sync so I had to trim some of the audio that I did not need. Also, some of the sounds was jarring and rough to listen to so I added some distortion to some of the sounds and changed the pitch to make the sound deeper or higher. I also changed the volume on almost every sound because I had to take into account where the character is so for this certain video, he is in what looks like a large white room so I had to dampen some of the noises so they sounded natural.
Some of the things I would change if I did this again and that is not to miss the lesson where you would record the sounds because I would have my own control over the sounds I got to choose. Also, I wished I had more time to get some the sounds more synced up to the video so it was perfectly synced up to the video.
Reflection.
To be honest I am not happy with my final grade and that is my fault for not producing the work I know I can produce. I can improve my work by adding a lot more detail in my evaluation the reason I did not not have time to put more detail in my evaluation was because I left it until it was too late so I did not have enough time. Another reason I got a low grade was because the detail in my research was not sufficient enough to warrant a higher grade