VIDEO AND SOUND PRODUCTION

May 10, 2020

VIDEO AND SOUND PRODUCTION - PROJECT 1

14/04/2020 - xx/xx/20 (Week 1 - Week x)

Farissa Eryna Binti Shahar Sham

Video and Sound Production

Project 1

LECTURE NOTES

Week 1 (17/04/2020)

For our first sound production class, Mr Razif gave us a lecture about sound fundamentals. He also explained to us how to use Adobe Audition.

Lecture 1; Sound Fundamentals

Tutorial; Sound Fundamentals (Equalizer)

Week 2 (24/04/2020)

For this week's class, we learned about 'sound shaping'. After the lecture I did some research to gain a better understanding. We must analyze and identify what we want the modified audio to sound like first.

Sound shaping is a process where the sound engineer increases (gains up) or decreases (gains down) signal levels of specific audio frequencies. Most of the sounds we hear are complex, meaning they contain audio signals at many different frequencies. Since adjusting frequency levels requires a specialized tool, the EQ (short for Equalization) was created.

Lecture & Tutorial; Sound Shaping

Week 3 (01/05/2020)

It was a public holiday but these are the lecture slides for this week's class.

From this lecture, I learned the basic sound design techniques. The 5 new techniques are:

Layering
Time stretching
Pitch shifting
Reversing
Mouth it

"Sound design is about exploring and experimenting, and sometimes the best sound happened, accidentally."

Lecture; Sound design tools & techniques

Tutorial; Sound design tools & techniques

INSTRUCTIONS

EXERCISES

Week 1 (17/04/2020)

For week 1's exercise, we had to use the equalizer tool to match the flat file with the other given audio files by Mr Razif.

Fig 1.3 EQ 1

Fig 1.4 EQ 2

Fig 1.5 EQ 3

Fig 1.6 EQ 4

Fig 1.7 EQ 5

Fig 1.8 EQ 6

Week 2 (24/04/2020)

Sound shaping exercise

Voice of a telephone call
Voice coming from inside a closet or closed room
Explosion sound
Voice of a walkie-talkie
Voice in a big stadium
Voice in a toilet/shower/bathroom

During the tutorial, we were taught on how to use the parametric equalizer.

Firstly, we must analyse, breakdown, and identify the characteristics of what we want to modify the audio to, then only will we get a clearer idea on how to change it.

An old, wired telephone does not have the same quality of sound as modern mobile phones do. Because the audio travels through the wire, the audio is not very sharp especially when going through far distances. This results in a much harsher audio which may sound nasally at times.

Below are my attempts:

1. Telephone call

Fig 1.9 Telephone call

Audio; Telephone call

2. Voice coming from a closed room

Fig 1.10 Voice coming from a closed room

Audio; Voice coming from a closed room

3. Explosion

Fig 1.11 Explosion

Fig 1.12 Hard limiter

Audio; Explosion

4. Walkie Talkie

Fig 1.13 Walkie talkie

Audio; Walkie talkie

5. Voice at a big stadium

Fig 1.14 Full reverb

Fig 1.15 Big stadium

Audio; Voice at a big stadium

6. Voice in a bathroom

Fig 1.16 Voice in a bathroom

Fig 1.17 Full reverb

Audio; Voice in a bathroom

Week 3 (01/05/20)

Sound design techniques

We were given exercises to do despite it being a public holiday. With the 5 new sound design techniques we learnt, we had to apply it to the given audios by Mr Razif.

5 sound design techniques: