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VSP PROJECT 1: AUDIO EDITING EXERCISE

 


||  24/09/24-24/12/24
||  Sun Jia Yi / 0370449
||  Video & Sound Production / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
||  Project 1: Audio Editing Exercise

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Lectures 

LECTURES 

Week 3:

To help us better understand the three-act framework, Mr. Martin showed us more movies.

In order to create an audio environment that enhances the action and draws in viewers, we must blend the sound components below for the audio dubbing exercise:
  1. Speech and Conversation
  2. Sound effects 
* One character, one track * 
No music needed

Two categories of sound effects exist:

Hard Sound effects: Particular noises, such a gunshot, glass shattering, or a creaking door, that are included in a movie to emphasize a certain action or incident.

Ambient effects are background noises that contribute to a movie's ambiance and feeling of place, such wind, traffic, or crowd noise.

We must locate the sound effect on the internet. It is necessary to fade the audio in and out.

Change the voice of a woman to a man, a man to a woman, an adult to a child, or an adorable animal: ↑ Audio Effects → Pitch Shifter → Semi tones in Premiere Pro. 

Volume
Dialogue volume: between -6 and -12 dB
Environment: less than -20 dB
Depend on hard sound effects.
Materials for asynchoronous classes

Storyboard

A storyboard is a visual depiction of a movie, animation, or video game used in filmmaking. A motion film, animation, motion graphic, or interactive media sequence can be pre-visualized with its help. 

Drawings, drawings, and reference photos or pictures to symbolize each frame are all included in a storyboard.

An explanation of the shot's composition, action, or dialogue
Details of the shot, such as the size, length of the lens, two-shot, etc. 
Arrows to show the movement of the camera and characters as well as the relationship between each shot.

Figure 1.1: Example of Storyboard, Week 3

There are two fundamental types of storyboards: Traditional storyboard Provide specific details. 

Storyboard with thumbnail stype: No pictures.

Storyboards are often created to align with the narrative, but they may also become intricately linked to the storytelling process itself.

How to Make a Storyboard 

1) Determine the script's important scenes.
The story and script we are working on must be divided.
Highlight the main beats of the story to identify its important elements (events, settings, costumes, staging, narrative arches, and major plot points).

2) Draw out the main scenes.
In the script, map out the identifier scenes and assign a number and title to each one. 

3) Include drawings or pictures
Conceptual landscaping: List the visual elements of every beat in a story's environment.

4) Explain each frame's events.
Make an effort to summarize each frame and explain the specifics of each scene.
Information on character blocking, composition and framing, dynamic action, annotations, emotion and expression, and transitions.

5) Distribute it to your group.
Encourage people to look over the storyboard.

6) Lastly, mention it that day.
The storyboard may be accessed digitally or printed out.

Quiz 


Week 4:

Materials for asynchoronous classes
Filmmaking stages:

1) Growth
The scriptwriter or producer comes up with the concept, and they start making it into a movie.
The producer is in charge of gathering the creative components, often known as assembling a package. This includes the director, performers, script, and IP.
A package should have strong sellability in order to draw in financial investment.

2) Pre-production
Prior to the start of filming, this step involves the essential preparation. 
For instance, managing the money, assembling the team, and using Storyboard for pre-visualization.

3) Manufacturing
The whole movie takes place on this stage.
Setup (lighting, camera, makeup, and costume), shooting, and the call sheet (schedule for each department and what they should do) will all be included in this step.

4) post-production
This is the post-production phase after the video has been captured.
Picture editing, sound editing, and other visual activities like VFX and CGI are included in this.

5) Distribution In the phases of film production, this step is sometimes overlooked. 
Marketing and distribution security are part of this stage.

Quiz 



Week 5:

Materials for asynchoronous classes
A scientific concept known as "color theory" describes how color saturations and colors are produced. 
a branch of art that studies how color is employed in visual art to evoke feelings.
Three categories of color theory exist.

The Color Wheel

Color Harmony and Context

The atmosphere and tone of what we're looking at may be greatly influenced by color.

Color Correction vs. Color Grading

Adjusting the color: 
The procedure for restoring the colors in a film to their proper appearance for your project. 
The process of giving a video or movie a stylistic appearance by grading or altering its colors is known as color grading.

Color Correction 

Since the original film is often oversaturated and needs to be adjusted, color correction is typically done first. The ultimate objective is to ensure that the video appears precisely how the human eye would view it. The video should ideally be as flat and undersaturated as feasible.

The five fundamental stages for color correction are as follows:
  1. Make the video as normal as you can.
  2. First, adjust the saturation.
  3. Adjust the contrast and brightness.
  4. Create a new white balance.
  5. Verify the skin tones again.
Grading Colors

To enhance the story, the appropriate color grading will always aid in expressing a visual tone or mood. To achieve the color grading effect, look-up tables and LUTs are used. 

The five fundamental stages of color garde are as follows:
  1. Bring the folate as close to normal as you can.
  2. To fix the colors, adhere to the instructions.
  3. Select the desired style and appearance.
  4. Make the necessary color corrections in your preferred editing application.
  5. Verify the vectorscope and skin tones twice.
  6. * White Balance: The color temperature at which white objects appear white on film.
Quiz 


Week 6:

Materials for asynchoronous classes
Mise en scène is the term used to describe everything that must occur in order for the final image to seem as it does, which in turn makes your content feel as you require. The pronunciation is meez-on-senn.

The term "mise en scène" describes a movie's images. It includes everything that happens on stage or in the frame, as well as how these components are arranged to give the audience meaning, feeling, and story.

Among the components of mise en scene are: 

1. Setting and Location: Physical Space: The scene of the action, which might be an abstract, symbolic space or a realistic one like a living room.
Time Period: The historical period in which the narrative is set, which has an impact on the set design, clothing, and props.

2. Props and Objects: Things that characters use or that are in the scene that can represent themes, reveal character attributes, or forward the story.

3. Costume and Makeup: Apparel and cosmetics that convey a character's character, vocation, social standing, or mental health.

4. Lighting: Using light and shadow to set the tone, draw attention to particular components, and direct the audience's gaze. High contrast lighting, for instance, can provide a dramatic or tense mood.

5. Composition and Framing: The arrangement of materials on stage or inside the frame, such as the placement of performers in a play or the camera angles in a movie. The audience's perception of power dynamics and relationships is impacted by this.

6. Performance and Acting: By expressing emotions and subtext, the performers' interactions, facial expressions, and body language greatly enhance the mise en scène.

7. Color Palette: The colors chosen for sets, clothing, and lighting can represent theme aspects or create certain feelings.

8. Spatial Relationships: The positioning and separation of objects and characters might suggest hierarchy, closeness, or conflict.


Week 7:

Sound may be used to heighten the suspense of a scene, bring a fanciful monster to life, or immerse the viewer in a cinematic experience.

The stages to sound effect methods are as follows:

1. Produce background noise
In order for viewers to hear what they want to hear and get fully immersed in the scenario, Ambeint sound does the hard work.

2. Be realistic(Establish some realism)
It may be accomplished by including suitable sound effects.

3. Tell stories nonverbally
When a sound is heard, viewers might interpret it in a number of ways.

4. Use sound effects to create tension.
Sound effects may convey a character's or location's story. 

5. Modify the feelings of the audience
A variety of sound effects can affect the emotions of the audience.
Nonverbal storytelling gives us hints about the context, and ambient sound effects aid viewers in understanding what is on screen.

6. Look for sound effects
On the internet, we could always locate the sound effect we needed.


INSTRUCTIONS

There is the Module Information Booklet for this Module: 


Project 1: Sound Dubbing exercise

1. Sound Dubbing Two exercises in audio editing

Given a muted video clip, we must recreate the sound for the full scenario, including the dialogue and background noise.
Recognize the sounds that are absent from the scenario.
Sound that humans can "see" and background noise
To make a video clip come to life, we must select or record sound samples to be utilized in sound effects.

2. Shaping of Sound

We must select one of the scenarios that are shown to us and design the soundscape for it.
Record our own sound for ten seconds.

The Subtitle for this exercise: 

Figure 2.1: Subtitle , Week 3

In this exercise, I seperate them in the three sections, one is hard sound effect, second one is ambient sound. And the last one is the dialogue record. 

hard sound effect

          
Figure 2.2: Hard sound effect , Week 3

Ambient sound effect 

Figure 2.3: Ambient sound effect, Week 3

I made some changes about the when the door is opened I increase the volume of the sound to made some amazing effect. 

Dialogue 


Figure 2.4: Character dialogue sound , Week 3

After these adjustments, I made the video like this: 

Figure 2.2: Audio Dubbing Exercise , Week 3

Project B: Sound Dubbing exercise

Instructed voice records:
  1. Voice of phone call.
  2. Voice coming from inside of closet.
  3. Voice of toilet/bathroom.
  4. Underground cave.
  5. Alien/ Orc voice

Process on Adobe Audition 

 Phone call

Inside of closet

Inside the bathroom

Alien

Final outcome of sound shaping

Link to drive: Sound shaping exercise

REFLECTIONS

Experience
I've never done anything like this before, and I had a great time learning. At first, Adobe Flash seemed quite alien and difficult to comprehend, but Mr. Martin's instructions are usually very simple to follow, making it enjoyable to explore with the software. However, I made the error of putting everything off till the very last minute—well, save from exercise 1.

Observation

I've noticed that sound design is all about using your imagination to determine what works best for a given object, scene, or theme. It's funny that tearing up a bunch of celery may mimic the sound of bones breaking (yeah, that's a classic example). How amazing what the mind is capable of believing! It also caught my attention how each sound enhances the atmosphere and has a direct impact on the impact of a scene, the narrative, or the point being made. 

Findings

I definitely took sound for granted, so learning about its underappreciated function in many things was disheartening. I've discovered that when it comes to sound design and audio editing, the possibilities are endless since often the most compelling results come from thinking creatively and unconventionally. What an enjoyable job foley artists have, too!


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