Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Sound for animation
Sam Assignment 20620197 & 20635985
First of all we searched for meaningful tracks which would fit in with the theme of this animation. We decided that dynamically we could build the movies emotion and meaning with specific SFX and music to portray Sam’s feelings. After analysing many different tracks we found two ‘Oasis’ tracks, which were lyrically suitable and also suited the structure of the animation. The lyrics were suitable as at the start of the piece the first track portrays Sam’s feelings with not enjoying the city he lives in and what he does. The second track we picked helped lift up the emotion as it shows the audience that Sam is choosing to be what he wants to be and this is what the song portrays. For SFX we found a website called www.findsounds.com , this site enabled us to search for appropriate sounds for our assignment using its search engine to search through its database. The program in which we used to piece the audio with the animation was called ‘Cool Edit Pro’ which helped us place our sound collection precisely.
First of all we searched for meaningful tracks which would fit in with the theme of this animation. We decided that dynamically we could build the movies emotion and meaning with specific SFX and music to portray Sam’s feelings. After analysing many different tracks we found two ‘Oasis’ tracks, which were lyrically suitable and also suited the structure of the animation. The lyrics were suitable as at the start of the piece the first track portrays Sam’s feelings with not enjoying the city he lives in and what he does. The second track we picked helped lift up the emotion as it shows the audience that Sam is choosing to be what he wants to be and this is what the song portrays. For SFX we found a website called www.findsounds.com , this site enabled us to search for appropriate sounds for our assignment using its search engine to search through its database. The program in which we used to piece the audio with the animation was called ‘Cool Edit Pro’ which helped us place our sound collection precisely.
Dave, Chuck And Grahams Audio For Video Project-Sam
This is a piece of coursework for our BSc Audio And Music Technology Degree. For this assignment we, being Graham, Chuck and Dave, were given the animation without any audio.
The task set for us was to create the soundtrack. This involved sound effects and music composition that was put together using Pro Tools a digital audio workstation. For creating the sound effects we search the internet for a range of different samples. We also did some foley recording to capture real sound which we then altered using audio editing software.
Graham was in charge of all the orchestral compositions, which he created using MIDI synths in Pro Tools. These compositions were arranged so that each character had his own theme. For example the main character Sam was played by a string section whereas the pilot had a brass section, which emphasised his bad mood.
Chuck was in charge of miscellaneous sound effects and foley recording. Chuck researched various sound effects websites and gathered a large collection of samples. He then edited these accordingly and placed them into the Pro Tools session. All samples had to be at a set sample rate of 44.1 Khz for the Pro Tools session.
Dave was in charge of vehicle sound effects, Ambient background noise, In flight music, credit music and mixing the three separate session together. Dave again had to research a lot so the sample online and most of them had to be edited to fit in the project.
Once all the pieces were together they were mastered and some automation was added for dynamic effect.
Please comment on our work.
Thanks
Dave, Chuck and Graham
The task set for us was to create the soundtrack. This involved sound effects and music composition that was put together using Pro Tools a digital audio workstation. For creating the sound effects we search the internet for a range of different samples. We also did some foley recording to capture real sound which we then altered using audio editing software.
Graham was in charge of all the orchestral compositions, which he created using MIDI synths in Pro Tools. These compositions were arranged so that each character had his own theme. For example the main character Sam was played by a string section whereas the pilot had a brass section, which emphasised his bad mood.
Chuck was in charge of miscellaneous sound effects and foley recording. Chuck researched various sound effects websites and gathered a large collection of samples. He then edited these accordingly and placed them into the Pro Tools session. All samples had to be at a set sample rate of 44.1 Khz for the Pro Tools session.
Dave was in charge of vehicle sound effects, Ambient background noise, In flight music, credit music and mixing the three separate session together. Dave again had to research a lot so the sample online and most of them had to be edited to fit in the project.
Once all the pieces were together they were mastered and some automation was added for dynamic effect.
Please comment on our work.
Thanks
Dave, Chuck and Graham
Labels: Sam Project
Recording Techniques 2 Assignment 2 - 2007
Create a podcast of between 15 and 20 minutes which has at least 2 members discussing a recent recording you have been engaged with.
The podcast should typically be a discussion on the techniques you have employed and why you chose those particular techniques, and if they were successful or not.
You might for example play a small segment of the drums before compression and/or other processing in isolation, and then play the same piece after processing by means of comparison.
Your final audio file must be an mp3 of 256kps Stereo with the file name of your student ids separated with a hyphen. xxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx.mp3 for example.
You will upload the mp3 to a dedicated hosting provider libsyn.com (I will provide the access details privately). You will then create a blog post entry on http://auxmix.com which contains your show notes along with the enclosure tag for the podcast.
Within the libsyn.com system you will find areas to add the appropriate “tags” for each audio file and also the all important enclosure tag which is used by rss syndication applications, along with show art.
You may work in groups of no more than three, but at least 2.
Grades will be awarded on:
• the accuracy of information recorded
• quality of recorded voices
• interesting show art
• use of original sound idents to help make the content exciting and interesting
• quality and levels of overall podcast
• neatly presented blog post and show notes concerning the content
Comments below are very welcome and encouraged.
Chris
Helpful links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
The podcast should typically be a discussion on the techniques you have employed and why you chose those particular techniques, and if they were successful or not.
You might for example play a small segment of the drums before compression and/or other processing in isolation, and then play the same piece after processing by means of comparison.
Your final audio file must be an mp3 of 256kps Stereo with the file name of your student ids separated with a hyphen. xxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx.mp3 for example.
You will upload the mp3 to a dedicated hosting provider libsyn.com (I will provide the access details privately). You will then create a blog post entry on http://auxmix.com which contains your show notes along with the enclosure tag for the podcast.
Within the libsyn.com system you will find areas to add the appropriate “tags” for each audio file and also the all important enclosure tag which is used by rss syndication applications, along with show art.
You may work in groups of no more than three, but at least 2.
Grades will be awarded on:
• the accuracy of information recorded
• quality of recorded voices
• interesting show art
• use of original sound idents to help make the content exciting and interesting
• quality and levels of overall podcast
• neatly presented blog post and show notes concerning the content
Comments below are very welcome and encouraged.
Chris
Helpful links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
Monday, April 23, 2007
Da Beatboss has entered the blogging arena
Hey folks.
I am new to this blogging lark. However over the next comple of months you are probably gonna be sick of me!!!
I am new to this blogging lark. However over the next comple of months you are probably gonna be sick of me!!!
