Sound Projects

   Recently we were tasked with making two sound projects. For our first project, the main point was to create the audio using foley, (with a foley "stage"). While our film was visually presented as a black screen, our audio had to help the audience convey the story without the visual representation. The duration of the film was only between 1-2 minutes. We were given the liberty to create our own story and choose our own foley sounds with the help of a various sound effects/resources we could download. We got to work with a partner during this project. The editing platform we used for this project was Adobe Premier Pro, while we were given another option, clip-champ, we used Premier. As for our second sound project tied back to our one word film (OWF). Our assignment was to add the necessary audio/sounds to the film we had created to complete the full film. For booth sound projects we had to create an outline for the audio scenes we would create as well as the sounds itself incorporated in our film.

  By having the freedom to work with another person and using various resources, the result of our video indeed holds a lot of creativity and variety. Yet not only were our resources helpful, the outlines for both projects helped us stay organized as well as bringing our final story to life. It helped us create a baseline of what sounds we would be using as well as matching scenarios of our story. For both project I used Adobe Premier Pro to help with the easy and fluidity of the layering process for the audio. The outline immensely helped when connecting the dots form the audio to the storyline as well as incorporating all the sounds in the right position with the video.

What I would do to improve my project would be to improve my foley sounds that we created. I feel as it was to repetitive at times on the first Sound Project. At the beginning of the story, there s a girl who rushes towards her own theatre show, as she runs towards the building, you can hear the jingling of her keys and her clothes ruffling. The keys sounded a little to repetitive and I also think what added to that fact was how long the clip was. That specific scene went on for a little too long and I think I could have shortened it to make it look more cohesive and nice to the human brain and not bore the audience too much. Yet for the second project  felt really confident n our final foley product as the sound effects and the foley smoothly blended in together as one cohesive audio for the film. I was quite content with the result of the crisp foley sounds as it matched with the action of the storyline. Yet one defect the second project included, we decided to add a musical aspect as the main character is wearing headphones. It was difficult trying to find a song that would match the mood and atmosphere of our short film. Yet overall i think we did a decent job in our project.

During our assigned sound lessons, I learned that foley is a method in whch objects are used to create sounds made by humans. A foley stage is used for this method, they are usually built to be held as a super quiet environment where you can put the picture on the screen and then record using microphones in sync with the picture. In the next phase (post production) they manipulated the sounds to make them sound more real or just to add depth and effect to the sound itself. Foley s usually made for sounds people normally tune out. The movie, "The quiet place" includes lots of foley and post production audio editing, yet the scariest sound in the film is the lack of sound itself. As foley progresses through the years it is truly important as it helps recreate the sounds that were lost for drama or intensity, making it scary for more detail in the film.

Links to my projects-

Sound Project #1-

HernandezGonzalez_Soundscape

Sound Project #2-

OWFSound_GonzalezBaynes.