Production Log: 17/11/13

This week I have gone back into my MixPad audio file for my short film to make sure that audio matches up perfectly with the film, seeing as now I have all of the footage done to make sure that I can do this. 

I edited the sound of the plane flying around the globe for my Ident so that the sound appears to be coming closer, louder, then moving away which now lines up with the footage. My 'One Rehearsal' Ident sequence is a parody of the Universal Pictures ident of the 1930's and 40's. 

I also edited the sound of the traffic and the flickering neon sign so that they rise in volume whenever Mallow, the camera, and the audience's ear, were closer to the window, which similarly had to be louder when Lotta opened the door, as the camera was closer, than it was when she closed it during the two-shot. 

There were also various sound effects like a match being struck and the sound of Marshal's leg hitting the chest of drawers which were added in as the footage looked bare without it so I had to find various other sound effects that sounded perfect. All of the sound effects within the film have been added in; the only audio that was recorded by the camera is the dialogue scene between Lotta and Mallow. 

This dialogue, recorded on the camera mic (after the visuals were filmed) had to be extracted, I had to run through WavePad to convert it to mono and add the 'old fashioned' sound, then dropped into this soundtrack as the final track of the five, but precisely, so that the background music of Lotta's Theme exactly matched that playing was already playing as a separate track, so that the later could be faded out without any noticeable jump in the sound. From here, all I had to do was to match the audio file with the video. However, while editing the footage I noticed that the transition the dialogue in each shot would sound odd; and sometimes the dialogue would over lap when I was trying to make the audio continue from one clip to another; so in Adobe Premier Pro I used the 'Constant Gain' tool to make the transition a lot smoother as this made the audio fade seamlessly over each other. After this, the error was almost completely unnoticeable.