This week, we continued to study the Evolution of Cinema, when looking further at Sound, particularly, Foley Sounds. Foley Sound is created when adding layers of natural sound to video footage. This makes the Foley sounds that are created appear natural and therefore, allows them to match well with the video footage. After looking at how Foley is created and used, we were tasked to create our own Foley sound effects to overlay onto a scene from The Princess Bride. We watched the scene several times so that we could gain an idea on the sounds that we needed to recreate. To clearly display the sounds that we wanted to make, we listed them, and how we would achieve them in a Sound Design Table. Once we clearly had all of our sounds in the table, we began to source props and objects that would help us to create these sounds. Some of the props that we used were blunt, prop knives, heavy boots, and a sheet of paper. We used each object to represent different sounds; the knives were used for the sound of sword fighting, the boots acted as the falling rocks, and the paper represented the crumbling rock. After recording our sounds in the Sound Studio, we then uploaded them to Audacity and adjusted different elements, such as the pitch and bass, and then uploaded the audio files and video footage to Avid where we edited them together to create the final edit.
After gaining some feedback on the edit from peers and lecturers, I was pleased with the final edit and will take all of the constructive comments on board and ensure I review them when completing a task like this again.
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