TOTN: Editing & Recording Final Session

Session Notes

With the deadline on the festive horizon, I have taken careful time to record additional foley sounds. In particular, I have been recording a lot of ambient background sounds such as television and radio playing in the background. Furthermore, with a substantial amount of background noises playing in the sound piece it should provide an excellent atmospheric tone serving to better illustrate the actions in my story mentally to the viewer.

Moreover, I personally a drastic difference in my sound pieces storytelling quality. The moment I included atmospheric recordings such as traffic when Dillon walks out of his apartment and footsteps in several parts of the track to illustrate a character travelling.

Figure A

Though most of these foley readings contained allot of static background interference or were simply to loud. So I made a lot of use of my new favourite tools the hard-line limiter and the cut and paste to re-engineer certain sounds such as the landlord knocking heavily three times on the tenant's door (figure a/b)

Figure B

However, I am still creating my hand-drawn frames with pencil and paper. Since I wish to create an improved animatic from my first attempt with Brainiac Jack and have a wonderful animatic piece to demonstrate my growing knowledge of camera angles as I draw each frame in the animatic to better convey the emotions and mindset of characters.

Referances

http://andrewnourse.com/images/walkacyle.jpg

By Sebastian Jones

Isiah Ferguson Review of Soundpiece

Session Notes

During this session, I presented most of the current production of my sound piece to my academic mentor Isiah Ferguson. As always Isiah's opinions and professional advice were gladly accepted as he expressed that  I must rearrange the order of dialogue that played towards the final at since main character Dillon and the Landlords lines previously switched back and forth which after reviewing tt personally was confusing for the narrative.

Moreover, he also commented that the addition of more intricate foley sounds to paint a picture for a scene. Also encouraging me to continue listening to the world around and apply my audio observations into my sound pieces, which would serve to produce a richer story to hear. Use a sound bridge to make the transition between different scenes or locations.

Absorbing the conversation with Isiah, I began to edit my sound waves and increase some lines that were quiet such as my recorded dialogue for the landlord and increase the wave height using the hardline limiter. to a level of twenty. (figure a)

Figure A

Furthermore, additional ambient sounds such as m traffic walking down the stairs recording were louder than the dialogue. So once more my favourite tol the hard limiter was reduced to -20 made the sound quiet enough for the dialogue to be heard clearly. (figure b)

Figure B

Learning Report Key Notes

Write a reflective 750 learning report

Reflect on advice m techniques evolution of project and how my skill have grown.

Submit on cd and hand in January 12th 2017

References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mijJ3BjJsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfp5ze0XTUo


By Sebastian Jones

TOTN: Editing & Recording Session 8

Session Notes

I finally moved and sliced my audio dialogue for the landlord and the narrative for my audio story is beginning to take shape. However, my recordings for the landlord character are merely a place filler since I am currently convinced may provide an authentic voice for Mr Donato since S. Williams is the right age for an older man. Though,, should recording S. Williams lines at the shop rove difficult with background interference or he is unavailable I will revert back to my own recorded lines for the landlord character.

Furthermore taking the portable Tascam recorder to a local shop in Worcester I managed to make my voice actor S. Williams record some dialogue for the landlord Mr Donato After adding S. Williams take on the landlord  I noticed thee was allot of background slag such as the traffic outside the shop. So I sought an alternative method besides slicing the recording and I finally discovered the spectral view in Adobe Audition.

Nevertheless, my final attempt voicing Mr Donato was received well by my colleagues which was satisfying. Since asking S.Willams to voice over the character once more at the shop would have been time-wasting and taxing on both of us especially with the festive holiday.

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References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfp5ze0XTUo

By Sebastian Jones

TOTN: Editing & Recording Session 7

Session Review

Editing the soundtrack wth the current clips of dialogue from the previous session is really starting to sound interesting/ (figure a)

Figure A

However,I still gong to need new dialogue for the shadow character by Tom Baxter and I need t record some lines for the landlord character as well as additional ambient foley noises such as traffic , heavier door knock. Once I returned to the studio I studied lines from the "Sopranos" television show and Soldier 7 another overwatch character in order to improve the dialogue for Mr Donato the landlord.

Referances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwWK8EFb8oQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0PGVs2nFg&t=35s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGqz3n4giXA

By Sebastian Jones

TOTN: Editing & Recording Session 6

Session Notes

Creating a new adobe audition multi-track and begun to weave my story by adding some of the recorded foley sounds and dialogue in order to create a proxy file in order for me to display to Issaih Ferguson and gain his professional onion before proceeding further. Once I returned t the studio another colleague of mine James Cambell came to record a few lines with Thomas Baxter and myself.

After experimenting with each character voice he eventually recorded an excellent voice for the protagonist Dillon. Dillon's character pauses and mumbles allot in the script and James improvised by making the character speak as if he had a cold with a stuffed nose. Which added allot more context to the characters dialogue and even though it was simple it was a brilliant addition to Dillon since so much was added to the Shadow character for the past weeks.

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By Sebastian Jones

TOTN: Recording Session 5

Session Notes

Returning to the studio once more with Thomas Baxter and this time more organized than the previous recording session we captured an interesting deep voice for the shadow character and a nervous voice for that of the protagonist Dillon.

Furthermore, towards the end of the session, Tom and I decided to experiment with reverb and the time stretch in adobe audition in order to apply a sense that the shadow could be heard inside Dillon's subconscious.

Interestingly, I discovered a set of effects in Logic Pro X that applied different vocal effects which simply played around with the reverb and pith of the recordings and I liked the tone of voice the "Narrative Vocal" and "Deep Vocal" applied to our voices as displayed in figure a.

Figure A

By Sebastian Jones

TOTN: Recording Session 4

Session Notes

Concerning Isaiah Ferguson's comments on the voice-over quality especially the quality of the landlord and shadow voice I finally found a worthy and willing candidate to voice my landlord a shop owner who sells and buys military and service clothing snd equipment.

He also expressed that my story should be further simplified so my main character Dillon has the final confrontation with his landlord at his own apartment instead of travelling to the landlord's house.

As a result of the shop owner willing to voice the landlord once, I made the vents fo the story less confusing Tom Baxter and Myself will either play the shadow or o Dillon since I was impressed by both our performances in the last recording session and the shop owner if still willing will voice the landlord. Moreover, Returning alone this time to the sound design studio I decided to browse around Lofgic Pro X and refamiliarize myself with the editing tools and where to find them/

Erase - delete a section of track

Scissor - razor tool

z - zooms to default view size

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Referances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-94fzpfO4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXQZKIQn0VE

By Sebastian Jones

Meeting with Academic Supervisor

Session Review

After presenting the first draft of voices for the landlord and shadow character. Isaiah Ferguson my academic mentor expressed that I need to find a voice actor preferably a grown man in his 30+ to voice the landlord or at least a person who could produce and keep the same constant tone of voice throughout each line of dialogue.

Furthermore, I by next week Tuesday I will have to step my production rate up and create new dialogue that better suits all three of my characters.

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By Sebastian Jones

TOTN: Recording Session 3

Session Review

Tom Baxter and I went into the sound design studio in order to record the first half of my characters diolog scenes in my story "The Thorns of the Night" During this session of production, Thomas Baxter and I both initially role-played each of the characters lines in order to quickly gain an emotional sense for which particular character we could speak through.

I planned to watch videos and spinets from kindred the embraced and other sources in order to get into character wnd experiment with different voices. Furthermore,we tried out different voices and we agreed shadow should whisper to reflect his manipulative nature and the landlord should have a husky and rough voice.

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By Sebastian Jones

References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tr0WxinZIs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7-bkfNSn0

Module Mentor Advice

Session Review

After meeting with my supervisor Isiah Ferguson once more yesterday afternoon. He expressed how I should keep my script and story simple and short to no more than five minutes or less. The reason for this was due to many people in today's society not willing to invest in a story for long periods of time especially when there is an expansive source of other people creating other similar content.

In addition, he also advised that I sketch most of the illustrations for the audio story on Photoshop using a graphics tablet simply due to the fact that erasing any mistakes can be drawn and edited faster on a computer rather than hand sketching each frame and then scanning those frames to the computer.

In conclusion, I personally agreed with many of Isiah's advice and he seems to work in a similar fashion to myself and I am pleased he has advised me in a straightforward and truthful manner. So next week Tuesday I will head back into the sound design studio with Thomas Baxter and I will create three audio samples for the protagonist, landlord and shadow characters in order for Isiah to have a feel for each character's tone of voice and quality.

By Sebastian Jones

Foley Project: Script and Story Preparation

Session Review

Similar to my independent study and other projects for my third university year. I will conserve the amount of production logs to key points during the project's development only compared to my exhaustive past journals. Furthermore, I primarily plan to create another sound design story similar to my noir piece from the second year however combine it with a motion comic or animatic since I personally believe creating a visual story to go along with the audio wil be an excellent progression since I enjoyed the "Brainiac Jack" animatic from year one and wanted to create both another animatic and audio piece again,

With that out of the way, I have begun to craft the script for this sound piece over the summer holiday as I also started the work for independent study. In particular, I took influence from films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. In addition to supernatural elements from the World of Darkness role-playing game series since i have also found the way they crafted and represented the supernatural in a subtle and believable manner was very well created.

Furthermore, as I completed a draft script worthy enough to start recording, I thought about the animatic and compared to the "Brainiac Jack" project. I wanted to attempt to make use of what I learned about cinematography in the second year in order to make key scenes have more of an impact visually.

By Sebastian  Jones

References

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Crow,-The.html