Week 7 Foley Sound Effect and Design

This week, we produced Foley sound effect for the film clips that provided in the drive. We were required to do: 

• Creating cue lists for film clips
• Recording sounds
• Editing sounds in the Premiere
• Screening the final clips and feedback 

Firstly, we started with chose film clips. We decided to use the first minute of the clip of '' Skeleton night before Christmas'' and we edited and annotated the clip with After Effect in order to figure out what sound we should records and timing.

Annotation of sound effects

Recording Soundtrack

One problem we met in the day was noisy environment. We couldn't find a quiet room to record sounds because of fully booked classroom, we have to share the room with another group. What's the worse? There's another class come at 12, which means we had to either finish recording earlier or find another places. Eventually, we decided to recorded in the toilet, which is worse as we could hear the water, hand dryer and conversation. 

Although we had really bad conditions, we completed the sounds recording successfully and we were really enjoyed the process. We used various of ordinary objects to produce the sounds by blow it, knock it, hit it, shake it and so on. For example, we were knocking the 'slippy sign board' in the toilet to imitate the wind. The reason we did that is the skeleton was stepped on the wooden stairs which the footstep should be heavy and profound. Thus knocking on the sign sounds more realistic than real footsteps. I were amazed by the possibilities of Foley sound design. It's really funny and creative as you will nerve know what is the sound made of. 

The photos shows I  recorded for Tz to play the guitar. We were using it for background music and it sounded amazing. 

Final Foley Sound Effect 

At the end of the day, we combined the soundtrack together and screening them to get the feedback. The main weakness on our video is that we did not have enough soundtracks to cover the footage, as well as parts of sounds did not edit accurately, such as electric shock and turn on the microscope. If I have more time, I will add more soundtracks from website to make it as perfect as possible.