As mentioned in the previous blog, the foley and sounds are all made by recording my voice only. The theme mainly focuses on the editing techniques using different plugins to alter the sound and discover the editing possibilities. Out of all the three themes I personally found that this theme is most challenging yet also rewarding. Due to the limitation of the theme, which I can only make the foleys with my voice only, my editing skills of sounds are fatally crucial to the outcome.
I found this theme is between the other two themes in terms of the rationality from the realistic theme and the creativity from the comedy theme. On one side, I need to make sure that the sounds I create make sense to the scene so that it won’t sound silly enough to feel like a comedy. Last lesson, Jessica mentioned that she felt a bit of humour towards this film as she saw my work. This was not my intention although I am really trolling and messing up with the theme. Therefore, I had to find ways to distinguish the two themes and so I decided to remove my pathetic off-sync dialogue on the pilot with a slightly Southern Chinese accent.
I probably have mentioned already that this theme has taken me a lot of time to complete, which is at least 60% of the time. Most of the time was spent on experimenting with plugins and editing, then the selection of suitable takes for the movements in the scene as well as syncing them together.
One thing I realised when I was editing is that it is so easy to lose focus when I am listening to the results that I am happy with. It is okay to appreciate myself that I am doing a great job of designing sounds. But the problem is that time is limited, and I need to keep reminding myself of it so that I can carry on (Keep Calm and Carry On!). However, it feels really awesome when something that sounds stupid turns into something that actually sounds good.
In the next blog, I will demonstrate my project and the workflows.