This week had no lessons involved with it so it gave me a chance to continue work on my assessment submissions. I decided to continue with the Unravel submission first and after looking at the list which I constructed a few weeks ago on sounds I wanted to include in the submissions, I wanted to focus on the crash noise for when the character crashes into the bucket towards the end of the video. I wanted to create from something not really obvious for this and after much experimenting and thought I went with hitting a pair of tongs against a baking tray. I recorded a number of different hits to decide which one was the best and went with two different ones, a short light hit and a hard, echo hit. I then placed these in two different tracks as I wanted to give them two different effects. For the first one I added a Sans Amp and modified the Metal Lead 1 preset, I also added a Studio Reverb and modified the Studio Time preset. The second track I added a Sans Amp and selected Metal Rhythm 3 preset and modified it. I also moved the Left Pan Knob to the 73 position on both tracks.
I wanted a rustling sort of sound for the Walking Dead video when you can see shadows of arms etc and this noise would simulate the movement and I achieved this by recording straight into Pro Tools me scrunching up a piece of paper. From here I wanted bring out the low frequencies and make the recognisable paper sound of the picture. Firstly, though I added an EQ 7 Band and by playing around with the preset of outside the club I was able to remove the scrunching of the paper, then by adding a Sans Amp I was able to give it a bit more of a bassy sound. The final result was a sound which reminding me of rambling though something and making movement sounds.
I recorded some footsteps in my joggers on a hard surface for use in the Nike video. I wanted to record them on the steps outside of my apartment but it proves to be too difficult due to background sounds. So, I used my mic and recorded taking steps on my kitchen floor. I started cut the recording and placed it into the right place. I made two different tracks of steps. The first track had a small hit of my jogger to the floor and this was for the guy running up the stairs. The second track I had a stronger hit of my jogger and I planned to add some reverb to this to symbolise the woman sprinting around the track. I then realised I wanted a delay on the hit where the video zooms up on the shoes, so I created two more track to add delay to them. I played around with many effects on these four tracks to give them all a very different and unique sound. For the first track, I added an EQ 7 Band and a Studio Reverb with the reverb effect Jazz Club selected. Moving onto the second track, I placed a Studio Reverb first with the reverb effect Small Room and then threw EQ 7 Band over the top. The third track I selected the Garage reverb effect on Studio Reverb and then modified the Mod Delay preset of Spaced. For the final track I used for the running steps I just used a Mod Delay and simply used the Muted Delays preset.
To end the week I started doing some final tweaks to my Walking Dead video and my Nike video. I consolidated my clips and worked on the mixing to make sure the master fader wasn’t clipping. I also used the TCE function to stretch the roars in the Nike video to make it in sync with the slow motion. Finally for this week I added the horror synth I created in week two to the walking dead video. I chose to place it in random parts like the knife part and the bird part just to add a bit of horror and a uncomfortable feeling for the viewer.
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