garage band stuffs

When I think of actually creating a track for the back ground in the add, I think of something with no words but a steady rhythm something that wouldn't sound out of place at a party. If we're trying to recreate a normal average party scene- in South Auckland, I would think that hip hop would be what would be blasted through the speakers and what everyone would be dancing to. I think there would be problems using actual songs of artists because of the whole copyright thing, but we could maybe create something similar our selves without actually copying anything. With us being pushed for time, it's a bit challenging.

what is white noise?

White noise is a sound that contains every frequency within the range of human hearing in equal amounts. Most people perceive this sound as having more high- frequency content than low, but this is not the case. This perception occurs because each successive octave has twice as many frequencies as the one preceding it. White noise can be generated on a sound synthesiser. Sound designers can use this sound, with some processing and filtering to create a multitude of effects such as wind, surf, space, whooshes, and rumbles. Pink noise is a variant of white noise. Pink noise is white noise that has been filtered to reduce the volume at each octave. This is done to compensate for the increase in the number of frequencies per octave. each octave is reduced by 6 decibels resulting in a noise sound wave that has equal energy at every octave.

white noise

Thinking of what to fill in the silence if there was to be silence in the film, I looked up white noise and sounds that I thought I could use. In youtube I came across a clip of under water sounds and I imported it into premier and using the equaliser in audio effects, I played around until the bubbling sounds were gone, lowered the pitch a bit, and then stretched it to get a sort of closed off noise, like you're being submerged kind of sound...

White noises.. and other colours

http://simplynoise.com/

I didn't even realise there was a site like this. I thought it was cool though.

Tips for Audio editing

I thought this was helpful and could probably be useful for experimenting.

Production Sound

·       Production Sound Mixer

The Production Sound Mixer is head of the sound department on set, responsible for recording all sound during filming. This involves the choice and deployment of microphones, operation of a sound recording device, and the mixing of audio signals in real time.

·      Boom Operator

The Boom Operator is an assistant to the Production Sound Mixer, responsible for microphone placement and movement during filming. The Boom Operator uses a boom pole, a long pole made of light aluminum or carbon fiber that allows precise positioning of the microphone above or below the Actors, just out of the camera's frame. The Boom Operator may also place radio microphones and hidden set microphones. In France, the Boom Operator is called the Perchman.

·       Utility Sound Technician

The utility Sound Technician has a dynamic role in the Sound Department, most typically pulling cables, but often acting as an additional Boom Operator or Mixer when required by complex filming circumstances. Not all films employ a Utility Sound Technician, but the increasing complexities of location sound recording in modern film have made the job more prevalent. This role is sometimes credited as Cable Puller or Python Wrangler.

Sound/Music

·       Sound Designer

The Sound Designer, or Supervising Sound Editor, is in charge of the post-production sound of a movie. Sometimes this may involve great creative license, and other times it may simply mean working with the Director and Editor to balance the sound to their liking.

·      Dialogue Editor

The Dialogue Editor is responsible for assembling and editing all the dialog in the soundtrack.

·       Sound Editor

The Sound Editor is responsible for assembling and editing all the sound effects in the soundtrack.

·       Re-recording Mixer

The Re-recording Mixer balances all of the sounds prepared by the dialogue, music and effects editors, and finalizes the films audio track.

·       Music Supervisor

The Music Supervisor, or Music Director, works with the Composer, Mixers and Editors to create and integrate the film's music. In Hollywood a Music Supervisor's primary responsibility is to act as liaison between the film production and the recording industry, negotiating the use rights for all source music used in a film.

·       Composer

The Composer is responsible for writing the musical score for a film.

·       Foley Artist

The Foley Artist is the person who creates the post-sync sound effects for a film. These sound effects are recorded in sync to picture and are mostly body movements, footsteps or object manipulations. The most common reason for recording these effects live to picture is the fact that such sounds are lost when the dialogue is removed to be replaced by a foreign language version. Unsatisfactorily recorded sync sound effects can also be replaced with Foley effects. Foley artists are also known as Foley walkers. Foley is named after it's first known practitioner, an early Hollywood sound editor named Jack Foley.

Foley artists
Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to a film-or in our case ads.
These reproduced sounds can be anything from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and breaking glass.
We may be recreating sound effects in the party scene for the ad that we're shooting and Leo and I as sound crew have to recreate these sounds.
Things that we might have to record, are sound effects like clinking glasses,