Foley Experimentation
The video below shows me and two members from my group discussing the sound in our film opening, 'Ethan Steal'.
As part of the Foley that I recorded for the film opening, I actually went to the film locations, and stayed there for a while, using a high quality microphone to record the background noise. This meant that I could use this for the sequence, meaning that when the shots change, the background noise or hiss sound will not cut or be different, which is a common mistake people may conduct when editing together a sequence, where change of shots is necessary.
Below are some photos I took associated with the recording of the location sounds, as well as three audio clips, of these sounds singled out. (Click on play, in the small box, to listen to the audio):
Scene 1
Scene 2
Water Droplets
Additionally, I recorded Foley sound effects using two of the actors that were in the film opening as well as one crew member, so that I can eliminate as much of the raw recorded sound as possible, and replace it with the sounds effects, which were recorded with the high quality microphone, depicted above.
Below is a short length video, which shows many examples of the Foley which I recorded, to be used for the film opening:
Alongside the lengthy location audio, and sound effects recorded both thorough using the actors, and specific applications, the film opening also required dialogue. This meant that I and my group had to go into a studio room in our collage, and record the dialogue of each character, ensuring it was accurate to how it was recorded when they were being filmed, on the day of the shoot. Trenay, the composer of the production, used a program called 'Logic Express' with a studio microphone, to record the actor’s lines.
Photos of me and my group working with the actors in the music studio, to re-record their dialogue can be seen below:
Furthermore, three of the sound effects for the film opening were recorded using applications on my iPad, and recorded using an audio jack, connecting my iPad to a PC, where I then used a program called Audacity, to record the sounds. The sound effects recorded were: a pistol reloading, a pistol firing, as well as high frequency beeps.
Related screenshots can be seen below:
Gunshot & Reloading SFX
High Pitch Beep SFX
Paige looking at sections that need to be dubbed.
Me listening to the raw dialogue, ensuring actors re-record their voice, in sync to footage.
Baris recording his lines, followed by Unal.
Paige looking at sections that need to be dubbed.