Isaac David's Upper sixth blog

Adding sound effects to a scene We were tasked with adding ambient sound effects to a scene from a movie or TV show. I decided to go with No Country For Old Men again as the Hotel Showdown scene is devoid most background sounds and focuses on the sounds that are currently happening. It was because of this fact that I decided to use this scene as it would be perfect to add whatever sound I wanted as long as it was relevant to the scene and the setting of the movie. The following will show how the process of adding sound effects went overall. Adding Pre-existing Sounds When analysing the scene I noticed that Josh Brolin's character was in a hotel room but everything quiet. There was no background noise and there was no sign of other people living in a hotel or in the area for that matter. So I decided to add the sound of a loud lady on the laughing and saying "Yeah". I felt like this added the idea of sound The character actually being in a world and not just bei

Sound dubbing evaluation Introduction For the next part of our unit we were tasked with dubbing the sound of scene of a movie or TV show. This entails learning the script, making sure that our voices match the actors and syncing it altogether. I choses to do dub for The Matrix and the scene where Neo meets Morpheus. The evaluation will show how this process went and some of the difficulties along the way. Recording There were a few things that had to be done before recording for the scene. A script had to be printed, the scene itself had to be read over and over again in order to make sure that my college and I knew what was being said and we had in general rehearse the scene. This unfortunately did not help the recording process. Since I had the more lines, I had problems remembering what came next and eventually I had to create multiple tracks for the multiple retake lines I did because I could not do the entirety of Morpheus' lines in one go. For my friend who was doi