Noir Session 10: A Fresh Review and Perspective

 Session Review

Cleaning up my noir audio story Mechanical Terror. Found new robotic footsteps from sounds resources website and edited Nickelodeon robot left and right footsteps, with the following effects. Pitch Shifter > Dark Lord and Reverb > Great Hall (figure a), the former used to turn the captured sound into my own effect and add more menacing weight and threat through the deeper bass and the latter effect simulating the heavy steel killer robot is stomping inside a warehouse down the street in an urban city area.

Figure A

Additionally, other scenes involving the anonymous caller giving the detective information deserved to have effects that made Toms dialogue sound as if they were coming from a phone instead of sharign the room with the detective. Alongside this sound effect error, the detective in true noir film fashion deserved to have his mental thoughts sounds as if the detective was speaking to himself mentally and a suitable effect  has been applied, both fixes displayed in figures b and c.

Figure B

Figure C

Furthermore, many of the killer robots scenes such as its activation involving inding gears and a roraring motor needed to suitably blend from effect to effect. The result is something far more tedious, mechanical and threatening rather than rough sound effects that que at each key stage in the script ruining th immersion.

One major sound effect for the activation of the robot was a roaring and abrupt engine roar before firing into life stomping and terrorising,.

References



By Sebastian Jones

Noir Editing Session 9

Session Review

After listening to my current audio piece contemplating the final scene where the detective encounters the robot. I furiously browsed the internet determined to improve upon the ongoing refinement of creating foley that sounds like a giant, massive metallic robot walking.

Furthermore, watching Scorsese's the "Taxi Driver"  once more, the continuous narration of the character Travis; inspired the inclusion of my protagonist's thoughts throughout the audio, effectively immersing myself into the narrative.

Additionally, the final scene, the detective will sarcastically laugh to himself as the killer robot.'s approaches him.

References

http://www.epicsound.com/sfx/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CImWc7og28

By Sebastian Jones

Noir Editing Session 8

Session Review

Carrying from yesterday evening, I contemplated how I could create a heavy footstep for the killer robot with the concrete footstep I recorded previously.

The reason I wanted to edit an existing sound is that since the original footsteps were recorded with the Tascam and shotgun mic and not a phone. I could still possess a high quality of sound with the new heavy footstep sound.

Creating the footstep was a fun mixture of the elevator for the hydroponics as he moved his mechanical leg and the concrete footstep with bass applied for the foot impact. and once he confronts the detective it was the new edited elevator sound played in reverse and stretched to produce a cybernetic sound.

References

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1318418?start=0&tstart=0

By Sebastian Jones

Noir Editing Session 7

Session Review

Different levels of reverb adds a nice touch to most foley sounds

Throughout the events of this evening session, besides inserting additional foley sounds to paint more of the story. I decided to edit each sound and try and make each sound like it was in a specific environment. Such as when the detective in the story enters the factory and applying a controlled amount of reverb to the footsteps I recorded in Friday's session.

Moreover, learning that I could simply highlight an individual sound and apply any desired effect, without it being applied to the rest of the sound, was incredibly useful.

Especially when editing, since I can shape each sound until I achieved the desired response.

Overall this session was worthwhile and allot more fun since I actually learned more techniques and acquainted myself with more of the adobe audition interface.




References

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?116874-Sound-Making-something-sound-like-it-s-in-another-room

By Sebastian Jones

Foley Recording Session

Session Review

Proceeding from the peer review in the last session, the feedback received was surprisingly positive despite the entire narrative in the audio piece not entirely clear.

Moreover, after taking out the sound recording equipment the funny thing was physically setting up the shotgun microphone to the rest of the equipment was done with little trouble, however, figuring out like an alien how to even turn the Tascam DR-40 recorder on despite using it for other tasks such as the Motion Graphics sound design workshops was tedious.

Moreover, once I discovered how to operate the Tascam, the first order of business was to re-record most of the indoor foley sounds I recorded with a phone such as a rifle loading and additional sounds I needed such as the static radio, concrete footsteps and various other sounds I recorded for future use.

Overall, despite having to work quickly and improvise several of the intended sound effects I deeply enjoyed using the shotgun microphone and pistol grip since the quality of sound recorded with it is good enough to be placed in the existing noir audio track and stored in a sound library, for future projects requiring foley.

By Sebastian Jones

Peer Review & Noir Editing Session 7

Applying additional foley sounds

Session Review

After growing discouraged with my sound piece, my passion for the noire piece returned once I included some additional sound effects and a noire soundtrack which added a depth of mystery which is essential to the most noire detective story.

Continuing from the peer review, I decided to re-record a few of my foley sound effects with the Tascam DR-40 m audio recorder and a shotgun microphone. When I acquainted myself with the Tascam and equipment I was frustrated as to why I could not pick up any sound when I recorded however, I learned the issue was because I did not set the Tascam to record with the internal microphone (INT MIC) under the record settings.

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References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwvVhXItl1w

By Sebastian Jones

Noir Editing Session 6

Session Review

During this short adobe audition editing session, I simply duplicated certain sounds such s the phone call in order to push the current duration of my sound piece and fill in the empty void of noise between each sound effect. Moreover, I wished to reverse the foley sound of the train engine in order for it to sound like the robot is powering up instead of powering down like the train engine.

However, despite my attempts at using feeble tricks such as duplicating generic sounds such as sighs and groans to push my audio track, I still need an extensive amount foley sounds recreated and imported such as the caller and detective phone conversation which should push the sound piece to at least another minute.

References

http://news.filehippo.com/2014/10/reverse-audio-clip-adobe-audition/

By Sebastian Jones