Toolkit - Film Scores & Mixing Audio

In Kat's last lesson we looked at film scores and mixed audio from an existing song to make a new one. Here is my audio from the class:

Toolkit - The Sound Room

Today Kat showed us the sound room, and told us how to book it if we needed to. I found it really interesting and am excited to have a go in there myself. I really enjoy recording music at home so maybe I could try it in the sound room to get higher quality files.

After looking at the sound room, we started to work on making computer-generated sound in Audition. I really liked trying out all of the different kinds of sounds you could get using the computer. Here's what I ended up with after a bit of experimentation:

Toolkit - Adobe Space Sound Effect

In Kat's previous lesson I was absent but I caught up on what we did today. In the lesson, everyone worked on noise reduction and editing clips to make them clearer. After that, they started work on a space themed sound clip. Here's the one I made:

Toolkit - Lip Syncing Continued

Here is my finished lip syncing video!

Toolkit - X-Sheets & Lip Syncing

In Nat's class last friday we did lip syncing for the first time. I thought it was really fun, especially because I've never done it before! We also learned about x-sheets. Nat set us the task to pick an audio clip from a website called the 11 Second Animation Club, and then animate the lip sync to go along with it. I picked a clip they published a couple of months ago from Star Wars, and started to plan it out on the x-sheet template Nat had given us. Here's my sheet:

To help me with the mouth sketches that I drew out, I went online and looked for a diagram with all of the mouth positions for different sounds, and I found this one which was really helpful.

The link to the website below also helped and gave me some good tips for my first time lip syncing!

http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/lipSync.htm

After I finished my x-sheet I used Adobe Animate to make a start on the animation. I imported my sound file in and used the frames I'd written down on my sheet as a guide... However I noticed that I hadn't got my planning completely accurate, so once I'd drawn the frames I had to reshuffle them a bit to make it actually look right. Here's a sketched out version of my animation that I managed to complete in the lesson. It still needs a bit of tweaking, there's a couple of mouth movements that are a little bit out of time. But for now, it's a good start!

Now I've finished the sketch stage, I want to add some more detail to the character's acting, because at the moment he's just stood like a statue. Hopefully that won't take too long to do, and I can move on to drawing up a cleaner version.

Soundscapes - My Images

Here are my three images that I got for the Soundscapes project, and a few different words I've come up with to describe them:

Number 1

Fuzzy, Soft, Spongy, Cozy, Fibres, Hair, Dirty, Red

Number 2

Abstract, Colourful, Bouncy, Excited, Broken, Splotchy, Merging, Mermaid

Number 3

Organic, Medical, Small, Serene, Calm, Black, Single

Toolkit - Adobe Dragon Roar

Today was our first Adobe Audition class, and I've found I'm not very good at editing sound, even if it interests me! The lesson started with Kat teaching us about different kinds of sound, about foley, and ambient sound. After this we worked on making a dragon roar, using animal audio clips, based on the picture of a dragon we found. I decided to use one of my drawings because I couldn't really find anything I wanted.

However the sound I made didn't really match my dragon at all. In fact, it didn't really sound like a dragon. It's a bit of a mish mash of strange noises. I don't think there's a way to upload audio files in Blogger - I'm not sure if anyone else has found out a way? Because of this I've taken it into After Effects and exported the picture of my dragon and the audio into a quicktime file that Blogger will recognise. Here it is:

I'm trying not to be too bothered about how bad it is, since it is the first lesson after all. Hopefully I'll improve next week!