P5: Record the different sound elements
Here is a list of royalty free sounds I sourced online.
Car interior sound effect
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cars passing sound effect
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Car engine start sound effect
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Phone keyboard sound effect
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Pool Table sound effect
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Bar crowds sound effect
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Wind sound effect
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rock music
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Fast car engine sound effect
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Captain America quote sound effect
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An iPhone notification
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skid and crash sound effects
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Here is a playlist I uploaded to Soundcloud. It has all the the foley recordings and speech in it as evidence of my own recordings.
P6: Carry out post-production edits to the sound elements
Below is evidence of editing audio tracks to produce a final piece.
I decided to use clip gain to turn it down, as I didn't want to make it so you couldn't hear the track over another, so outright turning down the volume would be bad, so instead I decided to slowly push it into the background by turning down the gain of the clip. This means that it gets slightly quieter by being pushed into the background, this also worked to make it sound like you could hear it from outside the car, which is what I wanted to happen emphasised by the wind sound effect that you can also hear in that part of the production.
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Here is the final production of my audio editing.
The Collisions of Crime radio production took me about 3 or 4 hours to fully edit and check over. Whilst editing this production I came across a few issues, such as certain clips being too loud, particularly the moments where the drunk characters are shouting, which meant I had to turn each of those clips right down, however, this meant that they were out of sync with the rest of the rest of the clips. As a result of this, I decided to make it seem like you could hear the sound from outside the car instead. I did this exceptionally well in the first "WHOOOO!!" you hear from the boys by adding a wind sound effect as it happens and then a car speeding off into the distance. Despite this, the process of putting everything together and adding in sound effects and the general editing and syncing was fairly straightforward and relatively easy to do on multi-track editing.
If I was able to do this edit again, one thing I would improve would be the the way the music just cuts. I would have more time to familiarise myself with the software a bit more, and learn all of its features and how everything works, so I would be able to do a better job of adding a quick audio fade out to each scene change, as it is most noticeable when the drunk guys' music just cuts off, instead of fading out, so I would change this if I was to improve anything.
If I was able to do this edit again, one thing I would improve would be the the way the music just cuts. I would have more time to familiarise myself with the software a bit more, and learn all of its features and how everything works, so I would be able to do a better job of adding a quick audio fade out to each scene change, as it is most noticeable when the drunk guys' music just cuts off, instead of fading out, so I would change this if I was to improve anything.