Final Stages of Editing: Sound

Music:
For the final stages of editing, Morrighan and I have been adding non-diegetic sound to the final cut of our footage. Morrighan began by recording the film noir, jazz style music for our OTS on her saxophone, which we then imported to iMovie and added over our footage. We cut and and overlapped the music so that it fit in with the footage, and experimented with adding audio effects, but felt that the music sounded best without them.

Monologue:
Next we recorded the monologue which I wrote for our anti-hero actor, Andrew. We used a Marantz and then imported this into iMovie, added it over our OTS footage, and cut and moved the audio so that it overlays appropriate footage for what the monologue is describing. We also added ducking to reduce the volume of other audios while the monologue is playing. This is so the monologue could be heard easily, as it is important that the audience follows it in order to understand the narrative. I planned the placement for the monologue over the footage in this post.

Foley femme fatale dialogue:
The foley sounds we added were the femme fatale's dialogue to clarify it as there was lots of noise in the background, the femme fatale's footsteps for when she is walking in the last scene, and a gunshot sound for when the title appears at the end of the OTS. Morrighan recorded her dialogue as the femme fatale on her phone, and we imported it to iMovie, and replaced the sound from the clip where she originally said this line with the foley.

Foley femme fatale footsteps:

Footstep Foley from Courtney O'Donnell on Vimeo.

I created the foley footsteps by walking on a hard wooden floor in high heeled shoes to mimic the femme fatale walking on concrete in heels. I recorded this onto my phone, uploaded it to Vimeo, downloaded it onto the computer where we are editing our OTS, and then imported it into iMovie. Then we added it over the clips where there are footsteps, cutting out the gaps in the audio where there was no sound, so that noise was not added to the clips unnecessarily. I edited the audio by reducing the noise, adding the audio effect 'pitch down', and decreasing the volume by 25%.

Foley gunshot:
Finally, we used the stapler gunshot sound which we created in our foley experiment video for the end of our OTS. I used clip trimmer to remove the click at the end of the sound, and then slowed it down so that the trimming did not make the sound too short. I added this to our OTS in time with when the film title appears.