Sound Usage

 Hey there everyone, it's Vicente again

For today's post I wanted to share what we recently learned in class these few lessons. This one was a pretty cool lesson I wont lie, we learned about how sound is used in videos and movies. Specially the adding of special sound effects in movies, which is called "Foley". Its the process of adding sounds to a scene after its recorded, for a better explanation think of a scene of a movie where they are riding horses, the sounds you hear are not from the actual shot. They are sent to foley artists, people that specialize on sound creation, what they basically do is use props to add into the scenes, so the footsteps or running of the horses is actually made with metal objects hitting dirt or grass. It's a pretty cool but long process, as you need to record these sounds perfectly and also edit them to fit the scenes correctly. It's amazing how much of these movies need to go through foley studios to be able to be produced, and the way that they make them so accurately is truly a beautiful form of art.

So our teacher in class decided for our next project to be just about Foley. Which we had just learned about, and so we had to team up with a random partner, and create a video with only sounds. We first had to create a story board with all the little sounds and scenes of our story and we had to include every type of sounds, SPECIALLY environmental sounds if we did an outdoor scene, as those are important overall to add ambience to the scene.

For this project me and my partner felt to do something that included a bunch of sounds but that was calming. It might have been a bit boring but we decided that somewhere outdoors in the rain would be a perfect match as we could include a bunch of environmental sounds to it. We used our outline to guide the way our sounds were used so that we could properly lay them over each other and make them sound that they were happening at the same time, so that you could make out what was going on during the audio. As well for this project I used Premier Pro, as I previously mentioned I'm already familiar with so I just knew how to use it.

I think I used a pretty good sets of sounds that came together to form a pretty good audio, I think the way I also balanced the sounds for my part is something that made it much more satisfying to listen to it. As some environmental sounds needed to be louder and others lower so that you could hear whats going on nonetheless while having sounds in the background. I think I might need to manage the time of the sounds or the time in general to be able to fit more sounds, as I did go off a bit offscript from some of the sounds in my outline.

If you are interested in hearing my project here it is!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dVLubs4EprEvO3bNgi87IGk6KTeKEtPJ/view?usp=drive_link