David's year 2 blog

Sound Effects For this workshop we had to put sound fx as well ambience into a scene of out choice. I chose to use a scene from the wire. When deciding what sound effects to use i thought of the nature of the scene and also what kind of show the Wire is. I decided to add in gun shots, police sirens, background chatter, and the sound of someone smoking a cigarette. To get theses sound effects i had to go online and sign up to different sound libraries so i was able to find the perfect sounds and download them. Once i found the sounds i downloaded them and added them to my garage band. At first i took the sound off of the original so i just had the visuals, this made it easier to add my sounds and work out how loud i needed each sound to be. Once i had played around and work out where each part need to be i then added the original sound back in to see if it all worked. At first some of my sounds were too loud for the scene, such as the police sirens and gun shots were too loud and th...

For this workshop we had to create our own music to go over a scene. We were instructed to use garageband again to create the musical scores for our scene.  In this workshop i chose a scene from Incidious. I chose the scene as I thought I would be able to create some spooky music as it’s a scare scene from a horror movie. I felt like it would be me a challenger which it did and I enjoyed playing around with different instruments until I was able to find the perfect instrument and begin making my score. For this we created our own music to put over a scene. We used garageband to create and record our own sounds that we thought fit our chosen scene. I used musical typing to make the music. As i chose a horror film i wanted to have an eery, scary sort of sound. Once i played around a bit with the keyboard and i had a better understanding of how to use the musical typing, i  then began searching for different instruments. Garage band have a whole range and endlessly supply of...

Putting music over a scene - The Wire (Omar's comin) For this workshop we put music into a scene. For my first scene I chose the scene from the Wire where Omar is coming outside and he walks through the outside area then he has a conversation with someone. This scene doesn't have any music in but has lots of background noise.  I chose to use an instrumental version of Dr Dre - Still D.R.E ft Snoop Dogg. I chose the song as i felt this genre of music fits the scene and i liked the way everything worked with the scene. Personally i thought it lifted the mood and gave the scene a new light, as when Omar starts walking outside the beat drops and it shows he's the one in charge. I also like the music as it adds something more to the scene and it shows Omar is someone you can’t play with and he’s the one in charge so I think the song adds that bit of power. At first i tried the scene with the explicit lyrics, but as i played around with it having a song with lyrics in didn...

Devil Wears Prada clip The following clip is what i used to add my voice over on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qdHE9-8spU For this workshop we ha to add a voice over to a scene that didn't already have a voice over on currently. We discussed many different types of voice overs and how to do them then we proceed to do one ourselves. A voice overs are used to help establish a characters emotions, thoughts or opinions, flashbacks or simply used as a narrator. I chose to use a scene from Devil Wears Prada as i wanted to use a film with a strong female lead. I used garage band to record and edit. At first i tried talking directly into garageband  but found this didn't work as a lot of background noise got in it especially as i was recording in a class environment so it picked up everything. My next option was to use my headphones and talk into the microphone. This was much better as you could just hear my voice and it was much clear and  better to edit. When i tried this...