by Lemoni Genosar
In this process, I used the snowball mic for the first time. It was very simple to use n audition and it gave me some great clear audio. I wish I could’ve read the whole story, but I reached 3:00 minutes at about half way through. I used a denoise filter and a dynamic processor to make the voiceover clear. I couldn’t really think of a fitting sound affect, but I found that fun background song. I honestly think it’s better without it.
“Soul” is movie of Disney and Pixar, talking about Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn’t quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz — and he’s good. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul. I picked this scene because The Great Before (also known as the You Seminar for rebranding purposes by the Abstract Souls) is a location featured in Disney/Pixar’s 2020 animated feature film Soul as the pre-existence place of life where new born souls get their personalities, quirks, and interests before going to the Earth, it makes me feel interesting about the world that I’ve never know about it.
I did the sounds and foley the sound effects (SFX) with my friend by using Diamond room in Building 18. We spent 2-3 hours to recording the dialog and SFX. To be honest, it was tired but I had fun to work on doing Audio production, I can know more about this field. I used ProTools for recording this sound and edit in the studio but when I got home, I felt the sounds just too left and too right, so I used Adobe Audition to make the sounds more balance itself. I hope you’re enjoying this short audio.
By: Zoe Nguyen
In this interview, I sat down with Gerald the Giraffe (played by my dad, “Dad” the Human) to talk about his daily life as a giraffe. It was an opportunity I was very lucky to have, it’s not everyday that you get to talk to a creature with such a tall, spotted neck.
You may start out like me before I had the honor of hosting this interview, clueless about how a giraffe would spend his day. If that sounds like you, then, come with me as I learn about his disdain for the birds that nest in the branches he plucks the leaves from, what in the world an ossicone is, and how to really appreciate the beauty of standing quietly in a plateau for hours. This interview is there for everyone with a thirst for knowledge of what it really means to be a giraffe.
This assignment was very entertaining to work on! I originally ended up with around 30 minutes of audio of my father and I just goofing around, so I really had to prune through that to get the final product. I hope you enjoy listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed making and editing it.
In this interview, I sat down with Gerald the Giraffe (played by my dad, “Dad” the Human) to talk about his daily life as a giraffe. It was an opportunity I was very lucky to have, it’s not everyday that you get to talk to a creature with such a tall, spotted neck.
You may start out like me before I had the honor of hosting this interview, clueless about how a giraffe would spend his day. If that sounds like you, then, come with me as I learn about his disdain for the birds that nest in the branches he plucks the leaves from, what in the world an ossicone is, and how to really appreciate the beauty of standing quietly in a plateau for hours. This interview is there for everyone with a thirst for knowledge of what it really means to be a giraffe.
This assignment was very entertaining to work on! I originally ended up with around 30 minutes of audio of my father and I just goofing around, so I really had to prune through that to get the final product. I hope you enjoy listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed making and editing it.
In this interview, I sat down with Gerald the Giraffe (played by my dad, “Dad” the Human) to talk about his daily life as a giraffe. It was an opportunity I was very lucky to have, it’s not everyday that you get to talk to a creature with such a tall, spotted neck.
You may start out like me before I had the honor of hosting this interview, clueless about how a giraffe would spend his day. If that sounds like you, then, come with me as I learn about his disdain for the birds that nest in the branches he plucks the leaves from, what in the world an ossicone is, and how to really appreciate the beauty of standing quietly in a plateau for hours. This interview is there for everyone with a thirst for knowledge of what it really means to be a giraffe.
This assignment was very entertaining to work on! I originally ended up with around 30 minutes of audio of my father and I just goofing around, so I really had to prune through that to get the final product. I hope you enjoy listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed making and editing it.
by: Allisa Olsen
As a collector of many things, I want to fill my collection of whatever I want and keep growing it, however, one type of collectible has always screwed me over in cash: blind boxes. Originally blind bags, these things have always impulse me. You don’t know what you’re going to get inside and once you open it, you either get the one you want or get a repeat of what you already have. At least with blind bags, you can kind of feel what you might get, but companies have now started switching to boxes, making it impossible to know what’s inside. I made this little PSA to spread awareness about the dangers of blind boxes.
Much of my audio and editing experience dates to high school when I would always help my sister with two of her assignments that involved making a video with audio. I had little experience, but I knew the basics on how to edit audio and I even used a really bad app. The only other time I can think of is when for my second year of Spanish class, my group had to make an entire video while speaking only in Spanish. I was given the opportunity to edit audio in the video and it turned out decent enough for a passing grade. Fast Forward today, the only time I typically edit audio is to pitch music to my liking.
Part of my interest with this project was the creativity that you could express with it. I had two initial ideas that came to mind with this project, Read a fairly iconic story of Winnie the pooh since it fit a similar idea but also meant more for me as a person than something like Aesop’s fables.
My other idea was extremely more ambitious and where the majority of the time on this project went before I decided Winnie the pooh was a safer option. I was gonna work on a script of a fictional play related to the story “the king in yellow”. The main obstacle was seeing if there was any reference to the play’s theme or even script from it but I couldn’t find anything and would have to write out something. After a few days of thinking on it, I realized this idea is not gonna work and to take a safer route with it.
Overall, this project taught me something important to keep in mind with projects and that is trying to get a good scope of how big an idea really is. I wasted a lot of the time on this project “working” on something that showed no fruit. I will have to keep this in mind when making projects in the future.
By Jordan Smith
What I was trying to accomplish with my audio project is something scary. Not something that is just Halloween style but more of an actual scary thing that has happened. So what I was looking for was something that has happened back in the day in real life. I read many dark things online and came across a cult boarding school, a school that was open from the 1970s all the way throughout 2010, shutting down in 2011. I could talk about this “school” here but would rather keep it out to keep the feel of immersion, the name of the school is said in the audio so those of you who are interested, have at it.
The program I used was FL Studio, I bought the full program but had very little experience on it, so making this was rather tough. I have spent 8 hours on this audio file mainly due to almost half the time, I’m trying to figure out how something works. Overall I am happy with what I was able to accomplish with almost no audio production experience. Although I think I would have made a much nicer product if I was in full control of what I was doing, being able to make my own sound effects instead of having to find them online. Sorry about my audio being over 3 minutes long. When I saw that my audio was 4 minutes long, it was already 3am and I wanted to sleep. My future audio projects will most likely be way better than this one now that thanks to this assignment I got a new found motivation to learn FL Studio!
Link: https://soundcloud.com/tristand-675553387/the-boarding-school
I was trying to get a good mix of levels in the audio but I didn’t have time to do much else. I’m using a virtual cable to run my audio from O.B.S to a digital audio bus called voice meter then to audition so there are effects on my voice keeping the levels nice and equalizing for my bad quality mic. I grabbed the sounds from various free sound sites but Pixbay is the best in my opinion. but the most expansive of all things online is a site called Openverse which was previously just called something like creative commons blah blah. I also did some murmur recording along with my voice, and I think it all comes together pretty well mainly considering levels. but with some more time I could do a lot better I’m just sleepy so I got the requirements done and exported. although its not like the fables are particularly interesting so I would wanna write something which would take even more time.