Editing Sound- Practical

In this task I added the twig snap sound effect that I created with celery. I downloaded my sound effect off of YouTube and dragged the sound effect into the appropriate place in our film opening. We decided to add it just before the extreme close up of Lucy's eyes looking around, and at the end of the clip where the killer is scrapping his knife against the chain link fence as he walks up the stairs. I then cut the beginning of the clip where there was no sound, and the end of the clip so that you could just hear the twig snap sound. As shown in the screenshot below.


In the screenshot below it shows that I moved the twig snap sound to the appropriate place in our film opening. The sound effect has also been cut.
















I then turned down the sound slightly so that it sounded more realistic. We decided to add the twig snap at the end of the clip where the killer is walking up the stairs, as it would sound and look as though he had made that sound as he was walking up the stairs. This therefore meant that Lucy turned around.

Editing No.3

My final piece of editing to do was to add in and edit the stabbing sound that I had downloaded. For this, I instead the sound clip into the correct place in our opening scene.

Next, I bladed the start and the end of the clip, as it was too long for what we needed it for, as we just needed one 'stab', where as the clip gave us multiple.

When I listened back to the clip, it seemed to be out of time and did not flow with the rest of the shots. To edit this, I bladed the start of the clip as there was no sound, which was causing the delay.

Next, when I listened back to the clip again, I found that the sound effect was too quick. To fix this, I reduced the speed of the clip to 80%. When we listened back to this, it sounded much better and the audience would be able to hear the sound more clearly.

Editing

I sped up the clip we re filmed of the stabbing as it fitted better with the speed of the other clips. 

I then bladed the beginning of the next clip as we didn't need it.

I also bladed a bit of the clip before the stabbing and sped it up as well to make the match on action flow better.

I bladed a bit of the end of the dragging clip as it was unnecessary.

I also bladed the beginning of the clip where we see the blood in the water as it was also unnecessary and we could cut down our time if we cut the clip so the blood came on screen straight away.

Next I slightly altered the fades on my voice over as I felt it was still slightly harsh.

I cut the beginning of the distorted song so that it began where the other one ended. I then moved it so it was parallel to the other, and parallel to where it needed to begin.

I next bladed the song to the same lengths as the other ones so I could edit it in the same way. I made the volumes the same and put the same fades in so it was exactly the same, just with the right song. I made sure it was exactly precise.

I added in the distorted ringtone sound I made and added it where the phone begins to ring - jus before I take out my earphones to answer the call. I also cut it so that the sound clip began when the audio did.

I edited the sound of this by removing the background noise and adjusting the volume.

I copied and pasted the sound of the knife scraping on the metal fence and slowed it down to fit the clip. However we later decided we didn't like it.

I moved the scream sound so it overlapped the stabbing. I also added in nature sounds over the top.

Editing

I put in the voiceover of me saying 'Hello' and matched it with me saying hello in the clip. I then cropped the voiceover to just the dialogue and put in a fade at the beginning and ending, so it didn't begin too harshly.

I put in the song with the Phone effect on it.

I next cut the song so the silence which was at the beginning was cut out.

I moved the music so it correlated with the beginning of the clip. I then bladed the music to fit in with this clip, as I was going to turn the volume up slightly each time I got closer to the camera. I bladed the music each time a clip began so that the volume could increase slightly each time. I also moved the music for the waterfall as we wanted the music to be broken up by the sound of the waterfall.

I then added a fade into the beginning of the song as in the clip I walk towards the camera, so by doing this it correlates.

I continued to cut the music to fit the different clips.

I detached the sound from the clip where he is dragging his knife up the metal chain link fence as we wanted this sound in it but we tried to remove the sound of the traffic in the background. However we later realised this wouldn't wrk, so deleted the sound altogether.

I turned down the music and moved it so that just after I turn round and drop my phone when my earphones come out, the music goes quiet.

I also added the natural sounds into it as this way it is clear that I can no longer hear the music.

I added another soundtrack of natural sounds - like the stream, birds and wind, and also added a fade to the beginning so that it is more realistic when the earphones come out. I also turned the music up slightly so that it can still be heard as if it's still playing through the earphones.

I added more natural sounds for all the time my earphones are not in to again reinforce the idea that I don't have earphones in. I also moved it slightly so it overlapped with the previous sound to make it sound more natural so it faded into the other.

I cut the music to fit the clips again so that I could add appropriate fades and adjust the volumes of when I'm putting the earphones in. As I'm putting it near my ear it goes slightly louder, and when I put it in my ear it gets louder and the fades represent me putting it up towards and then in my ear so it correlated.

I cut the natural sounds when I put the earphones in as I wouldn't be able to hear it anymore.

I then pasted in the distorted song as I realised after I put the earphones back in it went to this song, so I pasted it in to edit another time.