My outcomes for Sound aren’t all they could be, in large part because Premiere lost a number of the files I was working on, and I ran out of time to recreate them. But I can talk through where I went right or wrong and what I could have done better all the same.
Foley Sound
This outcome is the main one that’s evident on my blog and, obviously, since it’s finished, the one I’m happiest with. We were given a clip with the sound taken out, specifically concerning dinosaurs, and had to use stock noises/noises we made ourselves to recreate the sound effects. It was a good introduction to the subject, and helped me grasp the workings of Premiere better for future projects. I can’t say I’m too unhappy with the way I did anything in this project, though I had to remake it from the ground up when it failed to save in Premiere.
Sampling Song
For the next few weeks after the Foley Sound project, we were tasked with making a song using, in some regard, a sample from a movie or TV show. It was the first time we had used GarageBand on the course, and the first time I personally had ever used it seriously. I let myself get off track with this one and spent a large amount of time playing with the different instruments and trying chords to see what worked, but I came up with a serviceable enough song in the end. At the time of writing this I still need to upload it, as I couldn’t figure out how to save it as a file YouTube would recognise, but if there’s any changes I would make they would be to play less by ear to get more precise timing on the beats and to actually integrate my sample of choice more.
Plant-based Diet Information
This was arguably the main project of the unit, and the only one I can fairly confidently say I didn’t finish, as it was so heavily tied with my Digital Animation project, the many development issues of which I detailed in that unit’s evaluation. The general idea was that it would be a recording of me reading the script with sound effects to accompany what’s happening on-screen added in post. But my first attempt to record the script was done on a free piece of software I downloaded onto my phone for the exact purpose, which I wasn’t able to port onto my computer and which has now been essentially lost in the aether forever. This was in all honesty a stupid choice for me to make, and one which came about because I kept putting off renting out the necessary equipment until it was too late. If I were to do this project again I would start from the ground up, with an actual sound recorder set up and a viable way to port it.