Sound Final Project

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My final project is a sound post production of a film that I made during the last winter break. The length of the film is 12 minutes and 30 seconds, and I picked 4 scenes from the original film for this project. On the film set, the environment is noisy and full of hubbub of voices. For my final project, I am thinking recreate the sound space of my film and make a clean sound track that could give audience enough information about the environment that surrounding my actors. Also, I am planing make a sound effect that could connect each scenes together and construct an emotion tone for my film.For instance, the story took place in two time line, I was hoping that I could make a sound effect that symbolized the flash back scene of the film and help audience get a better understanding of the story.

The weakest part of my project is the mixing. The recording from the set is around -32 to - 16 db. After I try gain the audio level at post production, the noise come out. I try use EQ effect in logic and cut the noise out of the audio track, but part of the noise are still there. The sound level of my original recording also cause further issues in my mixing process. I  added more environments recording into the audio track, and the environments sounds level are way too high compare with the dialogue. Also, the echo sound is also a huge issue. In the first scene, the echo sound work perfectly with the images and I tend to use it to establish mood of the scene. But in the last scene, the echo sound is not matching the image from the audience aspect. It supposed to be deathly hush at the pause of the actor’s action and cause more tension between the two character. But when the image from wide view cut to the medium shot, the sound change immediately, audience could hear that the position of the recording changed. I thought I could fix it with automation and reverb effects, but it did not work as I expected.  I try use reverb effect to cut part of the echo sound and added more echo sound in the medium shot, but it does not make further improvement.