MOVING IMAGE 3 PROPOSAL

MOVING IMAGE 3 PROPOSAL 

UNIT 38: SOUNDTRACK PRODUCTION 

INTRODUCTION:

For this proposal, I will be looking at the short film that I produced for unit 22, titled “A New Day”. For this I will be mainly working with the soundtrack production and how I went about filming it all as well as being able to edit and record audio (if required to) for the video alike. I will be covering all sorts of aspects such as locations, Personnel Resources, and spoken words if applicable. 

RECORDING LOCATION INFORMATION:

For the short film in terms of locations to be filmed in, the first few scenes of the short film were all recorded and shot in my house, using various camera shots to show off various perspectives of me getting ready to go out and meet friends. The next scene was filmed at a bus stop and the final couple of scenes filmed at Box park. The film was roughly 3 minutes at max. The soundtrack used was completely non-diegetic and was mainly an instrumental soundtrack that I produced using Music maker and then being able to edit these said pieces with the help of Garageband, in order to make the music seem much more authentic and actually work giving the film a good and positive vibe alike.  

PERSONNEL 

In terms of Personnel for this short film, the idea was to essentially capture a day in the life of someone, meeting friends in the holidays. For our main cast we had 4 people play teenagers meeting up at Box park for the movie, we also had two people on camera including myself this is because the story would be shot from a first-person perspective, as well as third-person that essentially gives our audiences an idea of what view you can see the main character as well as what’s going on, from various perspectives. 

RESOURCES

In terms of resources we mainly used a storyboard as a form of visual representation in order to help with an initial skeleton with the video, we didn’t use a script as there’s not much-spoken word involved in the final product.  Furthermore, computer and sound manipulation and editing software were also included in the making of the film. In terms of any forms of spoken word, we mainly didn’t use any as we wanted the non-diegetic music to take the lead and make it so that the music was the dictator of the entire film in itself. 

MUSIC IDEAS FOR POST PRODUCTION

The genre of the music took after an electric funk sort of style that would help enforce the idea of a party being put into place or that atmosphere of being happy alike. Garageband would essentially be used to help edit the sounds to make it seem more authentic so that it fits the track and the use of instruments and sound pools in music maker allows for some music to be made according to the mood. As all the music is being produced by us there was essentially no need in worrying about any forms of copyright issues as such or more. 

SOUND FX FOR POST PRODUCTION

For sound effects they weren’t needed for production especially because of the approach we took towards producing the audio for this film, we only came across the idea that the story would be told visually and with music rather than sound effects as such. 

PROPOSAL

FINAL SOUNDTRACK PRODUCTIONS: PROPOSAL

In this proposal I'll be discussing what I wish to achieve when producing my own soundtrack, for the moving image. Throughout the course of this proposal I'll be talking about a specific scene from a form of media whether it be animation, film or something else. I'll also be talking about aspects like the duration of the said sequence, the techniques that I used in order to make my work seem more close to the original scene I'll be talking about foley sounds (if any are included) and so on.


The name of the sequence I have chosen for this particular project comes underneath the animation genre, more specifically the anime genre, the scene I have decided to do is the famed Karasuno defeats Shiratorizawa scene from the anime Haikyuu underneath the animation genre. The length of the scene is roughly around 3 minutes and 38 seconds which is how long the recreated version will sound. The scene can also be found in the Haikyuu movie "Battle of concepts" Whilst the movie is in Japanese, the idea of this recreation is firstly to dub the scene entirely in English. The sound effects, music as well as voices will all be recreated during the making of this  using the original subtitles as a way to help with the scene.

Aspects such as the background music will be tense, the original music will attempted to be recreated or there will be use of completely new pieces of music to accommodate the scene the music will obviously be non-diegetic meaning that the characters can't hear the music. However dialogue direct address towards characters will be seen as diegetic. Music tracks, sound effects and more will be seen as non-diegetic as they're elements that the characters won't be able to hear when making the final recreation. The voice acting will most likely be done with multiple voice actors, that as aforementioned will be voiced in English. Recording will be done in a small room setting with a microphone, or even done in a studio setting. With the use of music and sound effects in this scene I intend on recreating the intense atmosphere of the final points in a final game, making sure that the music helps to emphasise the way the atmosphere is sound effects will also help to emphasise the character's actions and mood, helping with the way the mood and atmosphere Will essentially play out.

Spoken information is crucial as it's the spoken word like dialogue. The dialogue will be original voice overs or essentially dubbed from its Japanese counterpart using the subtitles as a guidelines, contributing towards the original script. The vocal techniques, include no lip syncing but mainly just pure voice over the characters as they speak.  It will mainly be recorded in a small room esque space rather than a studio space,  by using a smaller room space will help with there being less ambient noise or even any further disturbances when recording. Using a more empty space will help with a more clear recording to happen.

In terms of personnel there will mainly be a good amount of voice actors mainly depending on the amount of people that are being voiced in the clip. Which is roughly around 5-6 individual voices if not then I'll improvise all characters as an assured back up, as a form of contingency. In terms of other personnel will be any sound editing done by myself, and any technical support will be provided by people in the college. Furthermore, the resources used in this workshop will consist of mainly using one microphone (USB) with a pop filter and a stand, I will also be using a Laptop computer as my primary hardware and a software, used to record sound called Audacity.  The =n with the use of GarageBand I'll edit the score and export it to movie making my final soundtrack.

Workshop 5

INTRODUCTION:
Workshop 5 had us adding sound effects to scenes, without any music or dialogue whatsoever. We were also required to include our own foley sound being our own noise that we personally recorded ourselves included in our own time.  This workshop had helped in giving me a better understanding of how sound effects play a more than crucial role in any form of media. With the way they work, the way they emphasise atmospheres and help with creating more and more meaning to the story. As opposed to other group pieces of work, this time I mainly worked on my own being able to create a score for the scene that primarily focuses around utilising only sound effects. The overall goal of this was to use sound effects either pre made by other creators or even making our own sounds (Foley sounds) in order to make our final product similar to the original product with no music nor dialogue but just sound effects to help understand how they enforce the general atmosphere and overall mood of the scene in general.


BASE SOUNDS WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND WHAT MOVIE SCENE
The movie scene I had chosen for this particular task was one that had minimal sound and no dialogue in the scene itself. I used the previously used Mission Impossible scene "Close call" (See workshop 3). With this scene I had the music muted. The scene had no dialogue either. In order to edit this I used GarageBand as I have previously with other tasks. Instead of using anything from the Sound pool that GarageBand had to offer, I instead used sound effects (made by other creators) that I found using a website that  provided me sound effects that I was able to implement into this scene the website was known as "Free Sounds" A place where creators make their own foley sounds all for free use.  All these sounds would help play parts in bringing the atmosphere and surroundings  as well as even recreating any potential sound effects implemented before hand as well as, any interactions that characters had with objects for instance, the use of the futuristic computer sounds to simulate any forms of beeping to show that scans were complete. In other instances using small steps sound effects to help follow the footsteps of the Rat in the vent to help with emphasising its prominence and that it's there in the vent, showing its importance in this scene bringing it to life. For atmospheric sounds, I used a fan to help simulate the noises vents would be making to make it seem more realistic and help bring out more realism to the scene overall essentially creating a score using sound effects that would make the scene seem more believable. 

One of the most challenging sounds that I had to find or even recreate was the rope sound effect and when the rope holds Ethan up ensuring he doesn't fall. These sounds were hard to essentially find as well as even being able to recreate myself therefore, I had to resort to using Free sounds. Furthermore, being able to even recreate the deep breathing scenes were hard to also recreate as they needed to be done in a particular fashion that would make the sound effect fit in with the scene. Making it flow as well being more realistic. 



FOLEY SOUNDS AND THE EDITING PROCESS
The term "Foley sounds" are mainly sounds that have been recorded by yourself typically any sounds that can be recorded and refer to mainly sound effects. An example of a foley sound that I recorded was, a keyboard noise (can be heard when Luther is typing). In order to record this sound I had a microphone and recorded the sound in a smaller room, this allows for less ricochet effects or any sounds to cause an echo or even any other sounds to interrupt the recording. This allows for a clear and precise recording that's more definitive and much more prominent to the listener. I used a standard microphone, and nothing else but simple keyboard strokes to help with recording roughly around 5-10 seconds to work with. When it came to the actual editing in itself, as aforementioned I used GarageBand to edit the score.  For the deep breathing noises again I was able to achieve this by simply breathing heavily into the microphone that I used. The peripheral I used was an external microphone with pop filter attached that allowed for less disruption in the recording and more clarity in my voice as it carries over to my final piece.  In terms of other techniques that I used in order to enhance the way my track was done was mainly through  

TECHNICAL SUCCESS
Overall the technical, success of the track was clear and quite successful overall. With the technical aspects when achieving the making of foley noises, as well as finding instances of sounds that are very similar of that  used in the original mission impossible scene. Allowing for the scene I made to sound genuine and closer to the original. Whilst using the following sound effects,

Workshop 4 evaluation

TECHNICAL QUALITY AND MEANING

 Overall, the technical quality of each interview had come out very clear with little to no disturbance whatsoever, making each interview easier to understand. In terms of the meaning that it has on the overall recording it was to help get people's opinions across about music. The tone of voice helped to project the thoughts that the  interviewees have. Because of this we were able to get a real sense of feeling as well as realism in our recordings, from each interviewee.  The technical quality was really important to listeners mainly because, it helps with making sure that our messages are going across to our listeners. 

MICROPHONES USED AND TECHNICAL ELEMENTS AS INFLUENCE.

The microphones that were used were from mobile devices, realistically in terms of equipment this would be a drawback, as it's obvious that some mobile microphones aren't as good as the official peripherals seeing as their not fully designed with quality in mind. However, due to our choice of location, being a small quiet room, there was a case of there being little to no noise whatsoever. The positive from this would be that as aforementioned there's less chance of there being too much disturbances or any ambiances that may have disrupted our recordings, luckily the room didn't have an echo either which helped with dialogue getting across in the interview. Making the technical quality balanced. 

WHAT WE USED TO EDIT THE INTERVIEWS

As done previously we used GarageBand to edit our interviews, at first we split them up into three and put them all into a certain order with a soundscape to help start, the interview kick off, giving a nice effect that helps reel in our listeners.  The editing process was mainly about making sure that each interview sounded clear, if not we'd have to record it again, as well as sounding more organised as well as consistent. 

Our work: 

You can find an edited version of the interview here:

https://soundcloud.com/user-261265272/workshop-4

Workshop 3 EVALUATION

This workshop, I was mainly expected to make my own music for a scene that has no music, in order to do this, I had to choose, a scene that would utilise no forms of music at all, however there can be both dialogue and sound effects included. In order to create music I was expected to create an instrumental piece in Garage-band and hoping that the music will fit in with the scene. By using given music instruments in the program itself.

My main goal was to make sure that I could incorporate more tension to the scene making it more tense than it was but not something that was over tense. In order to do so, I was able to use the two aforementioned instruments and was able to record notes using a computer keyboard, and after messing around with various notes, and playing about with times on the video clips.

After using a YouTube to MP4 converter, and finding the scene on Youtube like the aforementioned workshops, I used Garage-band in order to edit the sound levels as well as the music, making sure that everything fit there were no external recording processes. In this instance, I used integrated music instruments specifically, the infinity pad and Dirty analog monster-bass, both forms of bass' that I used, in order to add tension to the scene.


 I was able to create a small music track that would help to create tension in our said scene, I chose to use two completely different instrumental sounds, this was mainly because, I wanted to help create a contrast and mores a build up to the final climax of the scene that, by using higher notes and also using some melodies from holding down one key in order to give it a good start and then soon something that I could build something off, I would also leave gaps and whatnot in the middle of the scene mainly to give the scene more meaning and again more tension as with no music it already includes the tension of maybe an accident or something bad occurring, before then using my second instrument to help create the next part of my track and build upon any further tension.

Overall I used the second method in order to create any the track which was to write original music for the soundtrack, in this instance making it non-diegetic sound rather than diegetic sound. With the use of any instruments that I found in Garage-Band, and using them to make the track seem more in sync, and making the mood something tense, and giving it that meaning that this was a close call.



For this workshop I was also expected to work, on making a music track work on a clip from a film that already doesn't have any, or lack any music whatsoever. For the scene I have chosen I am using the same scene as aforementioned the "Close call" scene from Mission Impossible.

For this scene, I have chosen to fit the scene using the main theme song, and fit that over the movie scene, in order to do this I used GarageBand, to fit the music over and even sync it to the scene so that it doesn't seem too out of place nor distorted, and in fact made it look as if the scene fit well with said music in order to achieve this I used cuts when appropriate,  so that I could help the scene look right with leaving some form of ambiance and quiet humming sounds at the most tense scenes, to help with adding and emphasising even more tense than it already was originally. Furthermore,  by including the ending of the scene I used the end of the song, and implemented it into the end of the scene, unlike previous workshops there were no uses of recordings so no extra devices or anything are needed or were needed.

Evaluation 2 Dubbing voices (lip syncing)

In this workshop we were tasked with finding and dubbing over an entire scene from a movie mainly just what the characters do and say as opposed to the last workshop where we had to, simply re-enact the thoughts of characters for around a minute, from a form of media. This time around we have chosen to dub a scene from Detective Pikachu more famously recognised as Tim’s and Pikachu’s first meeting scene which we decided to dub over. Without any music in the back.

 Our main focus was the dialogue and making sure that it managed to sync with the lip movement in a better manner, that made it look clearer. 

In order to record our voices, we used our phones in order to help us capture said sound. In order to edit said clips to the program known as Garage band in order to edit the entire score, in order to get less clashes, I muted the original, track. In this workshop the goal was mainly for the group to, be able to successfully dub over said lines rather, meaning any lack of sound effects or music, won’t be worried about. 

To edit out the track we mainly muted the original video track, and added our voice lines over what the characters had sad by watching and attempting to mirror lip movements, to make it seem as if we’re the characters by being able to successfully mirror timing and dub clearly, over into a microphone without any potential disruptions or static noises that would end up making the final product something that our audiences can’t really hear. In order to ensure this, we made sure that we could get an empty space where there would be less likely of a chance with any echoes or any form of ricochet effect, as well as making sure that only one person in our group was recording their respective lines after another person has done their lines to help make the editing process much more efficient for the final product. 

Dub workshop 1 Evaluation

In this evaluation I’ll be covering the process about the workshop, in which we were tasked to record the thoughts of characters, in terms of what I had to do was find a television or film scene and record a dub for a character thought roughly around 30 seconds to a minute using Garage band to edit my voiceover. The main focus would be around nothing but voicing a character's thoughts and so therefore we chose a small scene from the animated sonic series to voice over.

Programs used included me using Garage band (as aforementioned) which allowed me to sync the dialogue to the other sounds in the scene, and then using premier pro, in order to help make sure that the final video was the correct duration, and that the final product flowed properly, so that the sound wasn’t distorted nor were the original sounds and our recorded score were clashing either, luckily that wasn’t the case and the final product came out better than expected. 

In order to record said lines, or scripts we used our phones to record the script and another phone in order to listen to the video and sync our voices to the voices so that placement was done well.  We only dubbed the lines that only include any form of thought processes that the characters will be going through. 

In terms of audio techniques, we made sure that there was a good use of thoughts used in order to make the entire video work, giving the characters some form of diegetic sounds including the sound effects that were also included, making the video more original and more realistic. The use of voiceover helped to add a confused mood to the scene as it was a scene that we saw the character as confused and was giving the character a voice in the form of giving the character inside thoughts,  by doing so we were able to provide more clarity on the thoughts and feelings our character was feeling in this scene.






For access to the scene click here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=16rjAtr5eMWhP-3D9rehhc0W72Fzmws8C