Video and Sound Production / Project 1

April 18, 2023

Video and Sound Production / Project 1

4.4.2023 - 2023 (Week 1 - )

Loke Yan Ling / 0344602

Video and Sound Production / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media

Project 1

Instructions

Practical

3-act structure

List out the 3-act structure with 2 video exercise. The reference is provided.

Fig 1.1 Exercises on the 3-act structure.

Exercise 1: Audio Dubbing

The very first step to do is to list down each scene and the corresponding sound effects for each scene. I'm not familiar to list out exactly which part is a scene. Thus, the scene is listed out by the 3-act structure.

Fig 2.1 Audio Track Spreadsheet

Fig 2.2 Sound recording

The voice-overs are recorded by phone. It recorded clearer with no emphasis on the background sound. Although the sound can be edited in Premiere Pro, but I still have to make my sound deeper when recording a man's voice. It is because Premier Pro's voice editing is not that good. The sound will all be the same for man after editing due to one source of the sound.

Fig 2.3 Marker

Before syncing the audio with the video, I make a marker for each transition of the scene and differentiate the marker for the dialogue with different colours. It will make further working easier.

- Audio Track:

1 - 4 : Dialogue (one character one track),

5 - 7 : Hard Sound Effects

8 - 10: Ambience Sound

Fig 2.4 Editing voice over

After syncing the hard sound effect and ambience sound, audio volume levels are edited to the appropriate timeline as required.

For the dialogue:

Edit voice from female to male, male to female, human to cute animal/adult to kid:

Premiere Pro → Audio Effects → Pitch Shifter → Semi tones

In semitones, there are 4 presets, I used the preset of death III and stretch the most.

Angry Gerbil - has higher pitch tones

Death lII - lower tone

Stretch - the sound scratch and separated apart

The dark lord - The sound of Voldemort

Last, constant power in the audio transition effect is applied to all audio tracks. It will produce the effect of fade in or out. It has one restriction, the short audio track only can place one constant power effect.

Final Audio Dubbing