Video & Sound Production — Project 1 : Audio Dubbing & Editing
3/04/2023—28/05/2023 (Week 1—Week 8)
Rachel Madeline Purwanto /
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Video and Sound Production / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in
Creative Media
Project 1 : Audio & Editing
❥LECTURE
Week 4 — Introduction to Film Sound
Sound elements
Mixing of sound elements below creates an audio setting that supports the
action and engages the spectators.
1. Speech
- Speech is one of the most important tools for understanding the story of the film.
- Dialogue is the conversation between characters in a movie
2. Sound effects
- Ambience audio refers to the background noise present at a given scene/location
- Hard/cut effects : almost every sound we hear at the movies isn't dialogue or music, its a sound effect
3. Music in movie
- Music in movie is to enhance the dramatic narrative and emotional impact.
- Dubbing (ADR) : process of re-recording dialogue after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes
- Foley : sound effects technique for synchronous effects or live effects.
- Foley technique are named for Jack Foley, a sound editor at Universal Studios
❥INSTRUCTIONS
❥TASKS
Part 1 — Audio Dubbing
In this task we were tasked to add audio and sound effects to a muted clip
from the movie Munich (2005) which includes the background ambience, dialogue
and the necessary sound effects. To do so, we had to record our voices and
adjust the audio of the voice to the right pitch, as well as look for the rest
of the audio on another website.
The first step was to review the clip and I made the spreadsheet to take note
of all the sound effects and the timestamps of the video.
Fig 1.0 Spreadsheet of Audio Dubbing
Me and a couple of other friends then recorded several dialogues on our phone
and imported them on Premier Pro.
Fig 1.1 Progress editing on Premier Pro
Certain audio clips had to be layered over each other to achieve the desired
sound effects or the accurate sound effects that were present according to the
time stamps.
I also used the effects control panel to adjust the volume for some of the
audios according to its distance from the camera's POV.
Fig 1.2 Progress editing on Premier Pro
There was one scene where the actors were on the phone so I edited the audio
on premier pro to make it sound as if they were in a phone call.
Fig 1.3 Editing Audio on Adobe Audition to make it sound muffled in the phone
call
Fig 1.4 Final Edited Audio Dubbing Project 1
Part 2 — Audio Shaping
For this task, we are instructed to do sound shaping in Adobe Audition by
following a step-by-step workflow. We were tasked to shape 4 different sounds
based on the provided audio;
1. Voice of a phone call
2. Voice coming from inside the closet
3. Voice from a toilet/bathroom
4. Voice from an underground cave
Progress :
Once I've followed the step-by-step tutorial provided, I tried to explore some
of the filters and effects by setting them at different decibels to achieve
the desired sound.
Fig 2.1 Progress of Voice phone call
Fig 2.2 Progress of Voice from inside the closet
Fig 2.3 Progress of Voice from the bathroom
Fig 2.4 Progress of Voice from underground cave
Fig 3.1 Final Voice of Phone Call Audio Shaping
Fig 3.2 Final Voice from Inside Closet Audio Shaping
Fig 3.3 Final Voice from Inside Bathroom Audio Shaping
Fig 3.4 Final Voice in Underground Cave Audio Shaping
❥REFLECTION
These exercises allowed me to learn and explore more of the aspects and
tools around Premier Pro and Adobe Audition and also learnt how to add sound
effects accordingly based off a scene from a trailer. Learning on how the
sound production works behind a movie was interesting, especially having to
record some of the audios with friends was also a pretty fun exercise to
do.
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