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Video and Sound Production - Project 1 Audio Dubbing

12/9/2023 - 24/9/2023 / Week  3 - Week 4
Janice Marie Eng Chia Hui  / 0361521
Video & Sound Production / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylors University 
Project 1 Audio Dubbing

Table of contents

Lectures

Week 4
This week we talked about Mise En Scene. It was something used in theater and was slowly adapted into movies. It refers to the visual elements of a scene in a movie and how it is arranged.

After the lecture, we were briefed on our next task which required us to shoot scenes in 2 groups. I was put into group B. Our group was tasked with recreating scenes from the movie 'Beef'. I initially wanted to be the boom operator but someone put their name down before me so I got stuck with actor :D(3rd task in which I have to act, I'm not taking theater pls stop)

After that Mr.Martin brought us to the shooting studio to teach us how to operate the equipment for our next task. I was the actor so I did not get to learn much since all I had to do was act, but I did kacau the other members of my team. 

We shot 2 test scenes but I do not currently have the footage.

Instructions

Figure 1.1 Instructions

Task 

Exercise 1

For this task, we were given a clip from the movie MUNICH with no audio and were asked to add audio in.  

Figure 2.1 Video with no sound clips

After the tutorial class by Mr.Martin, I went and did the spreadsheet 1st. I also got all the audio I needed before putting it into Premier Pro.

Figure 2.2 Spreadsheet

After completing the spreadsheet, I recorded the voice lines. It was really bad so I will not let you hear the original one. After recording the voice lines, I pitch shift it higher or lower depending on the character. 

After that, I started adding in the hard sounds and ambiance. I realized that I missed out some of the ambiance and hard sounds, as well as a sighing voice line. So I went back to find some more audio.

Figure 2.3 Folders for different audio clips

Figure 2.3 Screenshot of the full timeline(audio and voice line)





Figure 2.4 Screenshot of a section to show I did put crossfade in

Final Work


Figure 2.5 Final Audio Dubbing (19/9/23)

Exercise 2

This exercise is called sound shaping. Things to do for this exercise:
  • record a voice line that's at least 5 seconds
  • put the voice line in adobe audition 
  • make the voice sound like a phone call
  • make the voice sound like it's coming from inside a closet
  • make the voice sound like it's coming from a toilet
  • make the voice sound like it's coming from a cave
  • make the voice sound alien or orc

Recording the voice line

As the recording had to be 5 seconds long, I decided to quote one of my favorite shows "Derry Girls". The line was, "OMG! It's Bouncer from Neighbors. I thought he was dead.". This line would have no meaning to you unless you are a fan of said show.

After deciding what line I wanted, I got to recording. I had a few takes because I did not like how it sounded. I eventually landed on a voice line that sounded okay to me.

Figure 3.1 Takes of the voiceline(15/10/23)

Sound Shaping in Audition 

After getting the voice line, I imported the file to audition. Then I started editing.

Telephone sound

For this audio, I first put in the preset 'Telephone-Reciever' from the FFT filter. From there, I added the in EQ and tried to edit the EQ based on the FFT filter. Initially, I had tried to edit the audio without any reference, but I was struggling, which was when I decided to use a reference. Of course, I made sure to off the FFT filter preset when I exported the audio file.

FIgure 3.2 EQ settings vs FFT filter preset(FFT filter off)(14/10/23)

A voice from inside a closet
For this section, I recorded a clip of my voice from inside a closet. After that, I used that clip as a sound reference. I knew it had to sound muffled, but not too soft because it was just a closet. However, the recorded sound clip wasn't enough to help me, so I went onto Google and searched up how to make a muffled sound with an EQ. There I learnt that you had to lower the high-end frequency to get the muffled sound. 

Figure 3.3 Video I used for help

Figure 3.4 Initial EQ settings VS FInal EQ settings (14/10/23)

Voice from inside a toilet

For this sound, I knew it had to be reverb. But the reverb should not be too strong because its a toilet. I also used the convolution reverb for reference for this one. I chose the preset large bathroom. Then I, used the sound as a base for my reverb editing and added on other elements that I thought would make it sound nicer. Again, I made sure to off the convolution reverb effect so that only the EQ was applied.

Figure 3.5 Convolution reverb(off) vs Reverb(14/10/23)

Voice from an underground cave

I googled 'echo cave sound' in Google and Echo Caves came up. I watched the video and used the sounds in that video as a reference. Caves have very uneven echo and so the reverb must be stronger than the toilet reverb. 

Figure 3.6 Reverb settings for underground cave (14/10/23)

Alien/Orc voice

Aliens and Orcs. I wanted to make an alien voice, and I wanted it to be as unrecognizable as possible. So I added an analog delay to the voice, making it have feedback. I also distorted the voice to make it sound more inhumane. The pitch was shifted lower too. Basically, I slapped on a few effects onto the voice line to make it sound unrecognizable. But if the original voice line was known, you'd still be able to tell what was being said.

Figure 3.7 Effects being slapped onto the voice line include: analog delay, Denoise, Distortion, EQ, and Pitch Shifter (14/10/23)

Final Work
Figure 3.8 Toilet sound (15/10/23)

Figure 3.9 Underground caves sound(15/10/23)

Figure 3.10 Voice from closet(15/10/23)

Figure 3.11 Alien sound (15/10/23)

Figure 3.12 Telephone sound (15/10/23)

Reflection

I had a fairly good experience with this task. All I needed to know about what to do was shown in the tutorial and if I had further questions I just Googled it.

My observation with this task is that when using Premiere Pro, it is good to organize. Especially when you have 20-plus audio clips. I now understand why we were always asked to create folders for our work.

Finally, I found out that audio editing can be fun of you know what you are doing and when you are doing it for fun. Other than that, I also learned how to pitch shift and edit audio into audio-less clips (time to start an ASMR channel).

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