Submission Questions Answered
Today’s session started with any questions about the hand-in and submission.
I had one about ‘Harvard Referencing’…
Harvard Referencing
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Presentations
Zaron Lane
Project: Film Clip (A Quiet Place)
Feedback was positive however the critical feedback from Jessica included more of an external atmosphere when transitioning between perspectives.
I bring in the external ambience of life when the camera pans to the rocket which is a motif of a life of peace however the cut between sound and scene was described as sounding like a ‘mistake’. I will edit the volume and fade to adjust this mistake.
My notes from today’s session explain my other peer’s presentations about their work from this unit.
Monday 20th November 2023
My final mix 8.1
Octophic Ring
Using Logic Alone
How to set up a session dubbing in 8.1
Pro Tools I/O Settings
Logic I/O Settings
*Find Link Below*
Octophonic Mixing
I set out to mix my movie in octophonic and today achieved that. It has felt gratifying and inspiring to see how far I have come from my first day of university, I thought I never understand any of the equipment.
I began by experimenting with logic plug-in…
and GRM spaces.
I began to bring the volume to zero and re-include it at a suitable volume at the same time as picking its placement in the 8-speaker setup arrangement.
I wasn’t able to change the Logic sessions mix to 7.1 SDDS because Logic isn’t fluid with spatialisation editing. Rory was able to pre-hand help me with setting up a working logic project sing 7.1 SDDS.
The problem was any premade session would require 7.1 SDDS to be selected in detail at the beginning of creating a new project. An attempt to try in a session made in any other option (mono, stereo. quad, 5.1) would default to 5.1.
This new session did not have my files however Jessica told me today a bounce using AFF could import a copy of the data into a project. This solved my issue of the time-consuming non working attempts of bouncing stems and re-including and dragging them into their time spotting note because of this today was such a success.
Bousing an AFF files you must have all files ‘bounce in place’ as stems other wise plug in information isn’t carried over and your audio will be RAW again. I found out with this one section which I retuned into my previous project and retreided a bounced copy to import and mix.
I also took onboard my teacher and peer feedback and made some final changes
Here I brought in an external ambience to place us sonically in the scenes of reality, the shift of focus had a greater effect.
I also took back the feedback to fade out the external audio to give a transition in scene continuity and an immersive feeling.
My peer feedback was that the interaction between kids was too silent so I added in low end while the kid’s finger resembles the kid’s escape plan which the low end results in a mysterious dramatic feeling of their hope of a better chance at life which is making out of this sound can kill the universe.
I also sound-designed a catch by editing a synth to sound kid behaviour like the Alian wobble effect and editing a contract microphone field recordings sounds of a choppy riser and catch sound and heartbeat. I am very happy with this sound design.
Conclusion
Today was a very successful and productive day. Presting my work and seeing others put me in a very motivational mindset for the specialised dubbing session after class in the evening. I managed to complete an octophonic mix I am very happy with as well as prepare them in bounced files of 8 tracks that have been numbered by 1-8 for easy playback for marking.
I 8 audio files assigned to each of the 8 speakers ready for submission.