Wednesday, November 27, 2019

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