Sound Editing and Sound Design For Independent Film (Part 1)

PART 1 (please see my videos or link for Part 2) -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWtnqJkUNQ

The Importance of Sound Editing & Sound Design in Independent Film and Media

This is a video presenting 2 case study examples of how & why quality sound editing and sound design is a highly valued part of the film making process (which is overlooked more often than not), demonstrating the effect that it can have on scenes, and overall importance of sound in context to the big picture of making media. 2 scenes from the short film "The Hunter" by Alastair Ferran (www.alastairferran.com) are presented in an unedited form, then have they're faults broken down, & the apprach that was taken to process each scene brushing over the various techniques used. Finally each scene is then played back again with finished edited audio track, allowing direct comparison from the materials available, & the end result. I hope this video is able to demonstrat clearly the need smaller productions to must place on quality location recording, & sound post production.

Enjoy.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Independent
• film
• media
• making
• ametuer
• proffessional
• short
• new
• york
• the
• hunter
• simon
• norman
• stoltz
• alastair
• ferran
• sound
• design
• editing
• FX
• repair
• mixing
• foley
• ADR
• Additiona
• Dialogue
• Recording
• effects
• stereo
• mono
• part
• one

[laughingcrows]

Thanks for posting. It's great to see or HEAR the before and after.

I'm curious to see if you changed the way you recorded audio after this shoot.

[rlouve]

@laughingcrows I didnt run the location sound for this project. from what I know, the director was in new york for 6 weeks, of which himself & the crew he had there wrote & shot 2 short films, so they all had to work pretty fast. they didnt have an actual sound recordist, so I belive they simply used used 2 channels of radio mics attached to the actors, & nothing else. hence the fight sequence sounding HORRIBLE (2 actors fighting wearing radio mics... bad times)

[MrCrgl]

Do you record ambience sound in stereo or do you simulate stereo ?

[rlouve]

@MrCrgl personally, I'd record ambience where possible in stereo, the reason being if the purpose suits it better, you can very easily set that stereo ambience file to be a mono within the mix. simulated stereo never sounds as wide or a natural. in this day & age of considerbly afforable & easily attainable quality stereo recorders, theres no real excuse not too ;)

[Lucian1905]

can you give some material while you were editing the sounds(like an application tutorial) because i'm very interetested in editing and sound edition is really out of my knowledge..

[rlouve]

@Lucian1905 I've not really got round doing anything like this yet, & its quite a deep subject so would probly take me a LONG time to produce it properly in a digestable fashion, I may do it one day, but at the mo actually doing the work has current presidence

[ladpacheco]

thanks a lot very good explanation

[regikeyz]

Thank you for posting this mate.. very interesting.. and yes I think you are right..often the sound is overlooked for beginner courses etc

[MrCrgl]

@rlouve Dont get me wrong, of course the priest ADR voice sounds MUCH better than the original but once you tell me it is ADR I cant help but notice the ADR effect. Great tutorial.

[rlouve]

@MrCrgl I kind of agree with the ADR sound of the priest, it didnt sound SO bad IMO, thoI think the difference was noticable due to being layed against the other charecters original audio. this was part of the problum of the project tho, as only the priest could do ADR, the other charecter was away in germany & couldnt be brought in for an ADR session. also I wasnt able to record the ADR myself, as it was in new york & I'm based in england, so had to work with what was available.

[MrCrgl]

Great video ! Although it sounded much better I think that the ADR of the priest sounded "boxy". The other guy sounded very good because his voice blended with the ambience.