LO2 - Examples of audio creation and editing (P2)

Public interview activity.

On the 14th of March we were tasked to go out into the public with sound recording equipment and ask people an open question so that we could create a radio style public compilation of opinions when we came back. The subject I decided to ask people about was their opinions on Stephen hawking as that the internationally famous physicist had died just the day before. I decided that for the purposes of integrity i would ask people who would have different opinions about him. This meant that I asked one person near Sheffield Hallam University as well as a Jehovah's Witness who would clearly disagree with hawking when it came to their opinions on how the universe came to be. 

After gathering the footage that I am using for this feature i transferred the files to adobe audition where I balanced the sound levels for each (as that the distance that I had held the microphone away from people’s mouths and the loudness of their voices had led to discrepancies in how the audio clips sounded) and then lined them up to play one after another. 

I also recorded myself saying that I would be asking people their opinion on Hawking so that the listener would be introduced to the feature and understand what the people were talking about. The final product is attached below:

Adding a score: 


For this task i was to use the Internet to find appropriate sound effects in order to create the sound for a short scene in the film "Beverly hills cop." In order to do this i found the correct effects and then made them lined them up to the film scene in Adobe premiere.
for the scene i needed:

1.  A track of upbeat American popular music to give the scene continuity as well as to convay the positive tone of the scene. 
2. The sound of a car driving  
3. The sounds of cars passing by  
4. the sound of a car door closing 

As well as addin these sounds I wated to give the scene the impression that the sound was digenic. Therefore i decided to make it appear that the sound was coming from the car's radio. To do this on adobe premier i used a "High-pass fliter" and used 450 for he mesure of the effect. I feel like this helped to make the sound feel more atmospheric.

Finally as that all of my sound effects come from youtube I had to delete the video parts of them once i got them into premeire. I did this by selecting the whole Audio visual clip and then seperating them and deleting the video part of all of them.

My final score is below: 

I relised after creating this piece of work that I would need to redo it with a different piece of music as that the song I used "Sweet Jane" by the Velvet underground would likely have copyright protections on it which would stop my first version from being available. It was my intention to use this track however so If I was to redo the scene with some different music then it would need to be something that covered the same retro and upbeat tone.
For this reason I have gone into the "Creator studio" section of the website into the Create > Music policies section which has a large data base of songs as well as the policies set by their copyright holders and then I put in some songs that I thought would be appropriate to use. I did this unitl I got to the song "call me the Breeze" by JJ Cale. The song is blocked in 238 countries not including the United Kingdom. This meant that I was free to use it in my work.

The list of the countries in which the song is blocked from usage. 

In order to get the song in my video I found a video of it on youtube and then downloaded it to my computer using a Youtube to Mp3 downloader.
I then applied the same fade and high pass effects to the clip.




































The final piece is below:





Foley art for documentary film: 

On the 21st of March 2018 I was set the task of recreating the sound in a documentary scene by the national  geographic. I was given the vide clip with no sound and was tasked along with my teammate with writing a script for a voice over to the clip as well as creating the background sound such as music and sounds like leaves rustling when the featured animal (those bing British Red Squirrels) is seen.

This is what the premiere program looked like when me and Matt finished editing the clip. He wrote

Below I have inserted the final version of our scene.