Audio Project

Evaluation of The Finished Audio Play

Theft Audio Drama

Pros and Cons of the Project

Pros

I feel I co-ordinated the sounds well according to the script; I especially enjoy the cabinet door flinging open with the Thief being caught. The actors also played their parts with the correct level of audio for each line(the Thief spent most of his time whispering whilst the homeowner shouted/spoke most of his lines).  The editing aspect of the project went well with only some minor slip ups here and there(explained in the cons section). I managed to time the edited in sound effects well and each part has the correct level of audio. My team had to improvise many of the sounds as we didn't have the proper equipment(the foley aspect); for example instead of a lamp we used a clicking pen as a substitute.

Cons 

Some of the equipment I had didn't work as well as I wanted; for example the recorder itself was only recording in one channel so I had fix that in post-production. The editing aspect had a slip up as I didn't know how to edit the channels in Logic Pro. Eventually I had to get help and then I was redirected to the program Adobe Premiere Pro to get both channels functioning. During the recording session I had forgotten to hold the mic still so I was waving it around to catch the sounds. I realised that this was a mistake when I listened to the recording; I could hear a whooshing sound. I deleted this recording and started a new one; this time holding the mic still. 

Skills Development

One valueable lesson I had learn't was how to fix audio recording channels; though this was only on Adobe Premiere Pro. I've learn't how to edit audio into a recording whilst properly timing it. 

Contrast with Filming 

Audio and Film development are very different with different levels of difficulty. Planning a film involves obviously differs when you have to draw storyboards for the film sequence; whilst when I was on the planning stages of the audio play I came up with a number of different plots for it, picked one and designed a script around it. I did not have to do a recce sheet for the audio play as I was only in M011.

Improvements

If I could make improvements to my audio play I would try to find more equipment to do foley with; I would've got myself a lamp for the lamp effect and a creaky stool for when the Thief was traversing the house.  I also would've looked for a proper recording device that has both channels working. 

What Did and Didn't Work Well?

I think the recording of the actual play went well as I only had to do three takes(one for the practise run, one that was inturupted when one of the objects fell at the wrong time and the last take managed to run smoothly). The recording whilst initially flawed due to only one of the headphone buds working; did manage to actually get recorded with no other disruptions. The editing process was challenging at first due to the fact that only the left channel was playing audio whilst the right channel   

was staying quiet. To fix this I had to enlist the help of Toby; he equalised the audio so that both channels were playing audio. I did not use different microphones as there were none but if I had I would not have to have gone through the hassle of fixing the audio; I could've also listened to the recording(as I was recording it) with both ears.