During this assignment I learned how sound, in film and tv, add emotion and dimension to a scene and work to advance it. The visuals are often paired with the sound using noises that are associated with what is happening onscreen, but not always. Sometimes the sound conflicts with the visuals for artistic purposes. The sounds can be diegetic or non diegetic (meaning the sound exist alongside and can be heard by the characters or not). Music is a very important part of filmmaking and a soundscape as it can set the tone and create emotional reaction.
For the first sound projects, I had to work with a partner to create a 2 minutes of realistic sounds (no music) that conveyed a story. At least 4 of the sounds had to be foley (meaning we had to record them ourselves). For the second, I was tasked with adding making a soundscape for the previous ONE WORD FILM assignment.
With the first sound project, we made an attempt to create a big scale story of a knight who fights a dragon. Of course, we had a lot of ideas for sounds to use. During brainstorming, we worked to come up with the sound effects for different scenes we could have and what the full story would be and how the sound would tell it. The outline was helpful in showing me what kinds of sounds should be there for soundscape to be realistic and what order it should be in. We used the editing software called Clipchamp to put everything together. I was amazed by the final result and am very proud of the work we did. I think the sounds were layered very well and timed perfectly. It clear as to what was happening in the scene without any visuals. I think the uniqueness and complexity of our idea is to our advantage here. I especially love how the sounds built up to a climax. The only thing I think could have been better was blending the sound of the fight between the knight and the dragon a bit better.
For the One Word Film sound editing, I tried to come up with as many every day sounds as possible for the beginning. I attempted to make the soundscape slowly become less realistic as the short video went on. I used music and stings to better express the word “anxious” and even a few cues. The outline was useful because it separated the diegetic sounds from the nondiegetic sounds. Again, I used Clipchamp to edit the sound in the video. I think I did a good job of utilizing a few different sound editing techniques and of course, showing the word that the film was supposed to be based off of. Still, the shots in the video itself were not the best and that reflected on the final sound project. Overall, I think that after sound was added, the entire film was enhanced a lot and it is the best part of the whole project.
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