Planning:
Script for Audio Description
SMPTE Time Code
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Dialogue/SFX
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00.00 –
00.15
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Camera
pans down and across beautiful English rivers and landscapes
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00.16 – 00.20
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The morning
sun wakes up the citizens of London city, sailors take off and shop keepers
get ready to open for business
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00.21- 01.17
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Over the Thames River
athletes stand in position ready to perform their activities, gymnasts hold
onto their rings, swimmers walk to the end of the diving boards, boxers
stretch, motorcyclists adjust their helmets and track runners assume position.
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01-17- 01.37
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Tension builds as
athletes wait for their queue, a gunshot is fired, the track runners take off
with speed in slow motion, swimmers dive into water, meanwhile a train full
of spectators drive by female track runners, as across the other side of London,
boxers battle and train one-to-one
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01.38- 2.34
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The action is continued
in a faster pace montage of athletes training and participating in their activities,
including more gymnasts, rowers, weightlifters, cyclists and long jumpers under the sunrise of Britain
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When I started with this project, the
first practical step I took was to record and download all the sound I needed
to do, I ended up with a lot of sounds and recordings, this was very good as it
was better for me to have many different sounds and recordings to use and
choose from, the only disadvantage was that took very long to organize these
recordings so I decided to make a file
which contained different files for separate types of sounds being used in my
project.
My time management fro this project was
very precise and well thought-out, I achieved this by creating my own little
planner and deadlines for each part and task for the project. I made sure my
own deadlines were just a little more ahead of the official deadlines we had,
which allowed me to have more time to perfect my project.
Recording sound:
Recording Diary
For this project I wanted the quality of sound to be at a professional standard (High Quality), so in order to achieve this I recorded in a studio. Any of the sound effects I used where downloaded from a copyright free website so I didn't need to record anything outdoors.
My audio file sizes were very minimal in size, most of them being under 10MB excluding the soundtrack for the advert, which was 378MB in size.
Industry
practice (reflecting on finished product)
When I was first given my brief to
re-create the sound for an existing advert, I knew immediately which advert I
wanted to use for this project and how I wanted it to sound, I then though that
I should brainstorm a few more ideas to see what else I can do and how I can
create the vision I have in my head. Using Cubase I created the track from
scratch, using a MIDI keyboard, I first try to figure out a simple rhythm (with
a basic piano) I can play continuously and then built up the track by adding
other VST instruments (such as drums and violins) on top, I decided not to add
any audio effects to the soundtrack as I wanted the music to sound a natural
and as live-band like as possible. After finishing my first draft I listened to
it back and analysed what worked and what I needed to change, I then this
uploaded the improved version onto the toggle.
When creating the voice over for the
advert I struggled to sync the script in with the visuals of the sequence
accurately, it took me a few tries and altercations of the script, but I
eventually got the timing of the video and the audio description to match as
accurately as possible.
The steps to connecting Cubase to reason
to create the soundtrack
- Make sure reason is set up
- Open Cubase and reason separately
- Devices- reason rewire
- create- Dr Rex loop player
- choose track
- right click in empty space
- copy Rex loop track
Overall I fairly pleased with the outcome
of my project. The music I created was at professional standard and matches the
purpose of the advert. I encounter very few issues with the production process
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