Video and Sound Production - Project 1

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Video and Sound Production - Project 1



17.04.2020 - 01.05.2020  (Week 1 - Week 3)
Wong Kai Yi (0340236)
Video and Sound Production
Project 1 (Audio)

1. LECTURE

Week 1 (17.04.2020)

Zoom session with Mr Martin and Mr Razif
Module briefing by Mr Martin and Mr Razif. Mr Martin will be in charge of the visuals and video, while Mr Razif will be in charge of the audio.
Project 1: Audio Editing Exercises
Audio Editing Exercise: 3-5 exercises, they are meant to build up fundamentals in audio. Project 1 is to fine tune the skills and understanding.
Project 2: 30 seconds Digital Magic W9 submission
Pick a Zach King video and dissect it / watch his Behind the scene tutorial video and pick a Zach King trick.
Final project: 30 seconds Stop Motion
Theme: PSA (Public Service Announcement); a short informational clip that is meant to raise the audience's awareness about an important issue
Not a direct message

Mr Razif's Sound and Production Online Lecture (YouTube)
Topics: Nature of sound, how sound can be captured, how sound can be processed, analyze and use it, how to convert to digital world, pro tools.

Nature of sound
A vibration of air molecules that stimulates our eardrums
Production (source) to propagation (sound travels through a medium) to perception (sound captured and translated by our brain)
Sound waves: The air molecules' vibration and propagation (Movement)
Human ear: Outer (visible portion and ear canal), Middle (eardrum), Inner (cochlea)

2 types of waves: Transverse and longitudinal waves
Sound is a longitudinal wave

Psychoacoustics: the study of subjective human perception of sounds
Includes how we listen, our psychological responses and the psychological impact of music and sound on the human nervous system.
Traditional psychoacoustics concerns involve the perception of pitch, loudness, volume and timbre.

Properties of soundwaves:
Wavelength: the distance between any point on a wave and the equivalent point on the next phase.
Amplitude: height of wave (loudness)
Frequency: Number of times the wavelength occurs in 1s (pitch)

Properties of sound:
1. Pitch (frequency - Hz)

2. Loudness
3. Timbre (quality of sound)
4. Perceived duration (how to you perceive the pace of the sound - speed e.g. talking fast or slow)
5. Envelope (structure of a sound e.g. when does the sound change in loudness)
6. Spacialization (placement of sound)

Week 2 (24.04.2020)

Mr Razif's Sound and Production (Zoom Session) - Quality visualization

 Adobe Audition: Parametric Equalizer
Telephone sound: less bass and treble (low quality)
Sound from another room: muffled, less treble and mids, less clarity
Coloring: bomb sound (boost bass and treble)
Clipping: goes above 0dB (red), 0dB is the loudest

Sound Shaping:
Amplitude and compression > Hard limiter (like a compressor): max amplitude -0.1dB - explosion
Reverb
Space Reverb Reverb
Stadium: Presets
Apply > save as mp3

Longer - echo, shorter - reverb

Week 3 (01.05.2020)

Sound Design Techniques in Adobe Audition
Techniques:
1. Layering (in multitrack)
2. Time stretching & compression (stretch and pitch in effects)
3. Pitch shifting (stretch and pitch in effects)
4. Reverse (reverse in effects)
5. Mouth it (record your own sound)
6. Alien / Monster sounds (Flanger in modulation in effects)

Exporting multitrack

Week 4 onwards:
Adjusting pitch and volume in multitrack

Week 12 (03.07.2020)

Bus track (combine single tracks, e.g. many footsteps)
Adjust sound in mixer (single / bus / master track)
Recording / editing live sound in Adobe Audition after exporting video from Adobe Premiere Pro
Making sound effects with Bandlab (record on Adobe Audition)


2. INSTRUCTIONS


3. EXERCISES

Week 1 (17.04.2020)


Sound Equalizer Exercise by Mr Razif with Adobe Audition

Exercises for eq1-eq6 as below:

Fig 2.1 eq1

Fig 2.2 eq2

Fig 2.3 eq3

Fig 2.4 eq4

Fig 2.5 eq5

Fig 2.6 eq6


Week 2 (24.04.2020)

Sound shaping Audio exercise (Mr Razif):

  1. Telephone sound
  2. In the closet 
  3. Walkie-talkie
  4. Big stadium
  5. In the shower

Click the link for Exercise 2 Playlist on Soundcloud

Week 3 (01.05.2020)

Sound Design Techniques in Adobe Audition

  1. Alien
  2. Deep Explosion
  3. Triple Punch
Click the link for Exercise 3 Playlist on SoundCloud

Week 12 (03.07.2020)

Bandlab track: Saturday Mood

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