Overall sound of the film

The sound in this film consisted of 3 main sections: Music, Sound Design and the Voice over. I feel that with these things carefully recorded and constructed together the overall audio of the piece effectively emmerses the viewer in the film they are watching.

Music:

for music I picked a track from a music licencing company I subscribe to called artlist, the song is called ‘Do You Remember?’ by Dear Gravity. I felt that this song would fit the mood of the film that I had envisioned for the piece. I also like the way the song fitted with the voice over and complimented what he was saying in a powerful and effective way. I did have to alter it slightly, the song was too short so I cut the song in an appropriate place looking at the waveform and then copied the second half of the song and added it on. I tried to line up the two audio tracks the best I could so the transition was as seamless as possible, then I used a constant power audio transition to join the clips so the transition was unknoticable.

Sound Design:

I added some some sound design to the surfing and cycling clips to make the film more immersive. For the surfing I added some sounds of waves (purple clips) from epidemic sound. I matched the sounds I was hearing with the visuals on screen. I added fade using keyframes to each sound clip to introduce and fade the sounds away seamlessly. For the cycling clips I used some of the original audio from the clips as they already sounded good, but for some of the clips I reused some of the cycling and road sounds from other clips I recorded. I also added a fade to the beginning and end of the clips to seamlessly bring them in. For some of the cycling clips you can also see the sea on screen so I included both the road and cycling sounds as well as the waves.

Voice over:

Because I wanted there to be a face to the voice over, I filmed my dad saying the voice over as well as recording audio. For the audio, I used a rode lav mic which I clipped onto dad’s shirt close to his mouth. By getting the mic as close to the mouth as possible it means that you can reduce the gain of the audio and reduce the background noise. I plugged the mic into my phone and used an app call Ferite to control the audio gain to get the best results. I did not do much editing to the sound as it was high enough quality straight away.