Project 1

28 Aug 2019 -(week 01-)
Soo Wen Yi (0334653)
Video and Sound Production _ Project 1

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INSTRUCTIONS_

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PROJECT 1_

Week 02

Exercise 02

We started with a short lecture presented by Mr Razif. Here are some notes I took during the lecture. 
Properties of sound wave

• wavelength
• amplitude
• frequency

1. pitch - notation of our voice (chipmunk - high pitch)
2. loudness
3. timbre (tone colour/tone quality)
4.  perceived duration (fast or slow when heard)
5.  envelope (characteristic of a sound - short &loud)
6. specialisation (left, right, close, far etc.) 

After that, we started with Mr Razif showing us how to use Adobe Audition for our exercise and proceeded to start the exercise. Some people had a hard time with hearing the difference between each track compared to the original, so that's why he recommended to get studio headphones for this class. 

Fig. 2.1: we are using Parametric Equalizer

Fig. 2.2: click exclusive so when clicked on a track's solo, it will only play one when you switch it

In this exercise we have an original track that we need to match the other 6 slightly different tracks to(example one track has heavier bass compared to the original track). Then we are told to take a screen shot of the parametric equalizer window after adjusting it for each track.

Fig. 2.3: eq-1 edited

Fig. 2.4: eq-2 edited

Fig. 2.5: eq-3 edited

Fig. 2.6: eq-4 edited

Fig. 2.7: eq-5 edited

Fig. 2.8: eq-6 edited

Feedback from Mr Razif, he said not bad, but with better headphones will have better judgement. Because I'm using an in ear earbuds, I will be hearing more bass.


Week 03
For Mr Razif's class we are shaping the sound like its coming from different sources. 1st we changed the source of the sound from a telephone, with his guidance.  Then we had to change the source coming out from a closet and one coming out from a stadium speaker.

 

Fig. 4.1: source - telephone

Here's the audio from telephone.

Fig. 4.2: source - closet ver 1

Mr Razif said its good, sounds like its muffled or coming from a confined space, play around with the 2nd handle on the equalizer.

Fig. 4.3: source - closet ver 2

Here's the audio from closet.

Fig. 4.4: source - stadium, covered stadium

Here's the audio from stadium.



Week 04
no audio class

Week 05

Video

shooting for Project 2

Audio lecture notes

 5 techniques

-layering: 2 or more sound mixed

-time stretching: lengthen or shorten the audio

-pitch shifting: create characteristic

-reversing

-mouth it: making own sound with mouth 

In class we did explosion sound and we had to do a 3 punch +1 blow.

 

Fig. 6.1: explosion screenshot

 Here's the audio for explosion.

Fig. 6.2: punches screenshot

Here's the audio for punches.

 

Week 06
Video

Project 2 colour correction to 50 sec video.

Audio

We learnt how to remove and add the background sound back into the audio of the video shoot that we did for project 2. 

1.export edited video as MP4, import into Adobe Audition 

Fig. 7.1: importing video

2. select a clip of background noise to capture it

Fig. 7.2: capturing background noise

 3. select whole audio then reduce the background noise

Fig. 7.3: to reduce the background noise

We were told that there's no formula to editing this, we have to judge it ourselves and play around. After reducing to the desired outcome, save it as an audio file and put it back into the video in Premire Pro. Using this method we have to edit the audio from our soap video.

Week 07
no audio lecture, continue editing.

Fig. 7.4: screenshot of noise reduction

After that I needed to add an ambient sound. Due to my group forgot to record the ambient sound, Arletta (my classmate) offered to lend me her group's ambient sound.

Fig. 7.5: ambient sound

However, their ambient sound is much quieter compared to what my group has. Since the dialogue still have some trace of the ambient sound, I just choose to use our recording that doesn't have any dialogue in it and blend it in like how Mr Razif taught us.

Fig. 7.6: own blended ambient noise added

After this the needed sound effect is left with the footsteps at the beginning and when the shop owner turns.

Fig. 7.7: added foot step 1, coming from the right ear first because the actor walked in from the right side of the screen

Fig. 7.8: adjusted EQ for the foot step

Fig. 7.9: additional foot steps which are very soft as the actor was only turning around

Here's the final audio file.

And here's the video with the audio, video with added background music will be in Project 2.