Video & Sound Production / Project 1

12/09/2023 - 24/09/2023 / Week 3 - Week 4

Iman binti Kamarudin / 0364014

Video and Sound Production / Bachelors in Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Project 1: Audio Dubbing

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INSTRUCTIONS

Exercise 1: Audio Dubbing

- Record audio using phone

- List hard sound effects & ambience sound on spreadsheet and what time in the video

- Apply audio transitions in the beginning and the end.

I first created a spreadsheet with what sound effects should be in the video and when they should appear. Afterwards, I recorded the dialogue and began searching for the right sound effects. I used Pixabay to search for the audio.

Fig 1.1 - Audio Track Spreadsheet

Fig 1.2 - Pixabay Website

After I found all the sound effects, I imported everything into Adobe Premiere Pro. I started with the dialogue and edited them using the pitch shifter for each character. Then, I moved onto the ambient and hard sounds.

Fig 1.3 - Track 1 - 4 Dialogue

Fig 1.4 - Pitch Shifter (Father)

For the footsteps, it was difficult trying to find the right sound effects that weren't too slow or 'heavy'. I eventually had to just make do and decided to make the audio fit better with the scene by speeding it up to match the little girl's footsteps.

Fig 1.5 - Speed Up Audio

For the phone call, I edited one of the dialogue clips to make it sound like the little girl was actually talking through the phone using the 'highpass' effect.

Fig 1.6 - Highpass Filter Effect

Fig 1.7 - Track 5 - 9 Hard Sounds & Ambient

Fig 1.8 - Final Audio Dubbing Video

Exercise 2: Audio Editing

In class, we learnt a bit about Adobe Audition and were tasked to edit the audio to sound like it was recorded in different environments. 

To make it sound like a phone call, or in a closet, we used the parametric equalizer and adjusted the bass, mid range and treble differently.

To change the space of the sound, we used reverb and adjusted the delay time, perception, wet and dry channels.

Final Audios

Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cNYb9BZftAP56IN_c_L_ttii79Ba-yTl?usp=drive_link

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REFLECTION

My experience with this task was alright. I'm not the biggest enjoyer of editing as sometimes it can feel pretty tedious but I did have some fun while doing this task. 

Searching for the right sound effects was a little hard as I feel like some of them were just too niche to find on the internet and it was always like the sound effect was either too slow, too fast or just not the right sound that I was imagining in my head. However, I think I did pretty okay with my choice of sounds. I've found that you have to have a lot of patience while audio dubbing.