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A Week of Post-Production

This week I’ve been working on a scene for “The Rise of the Revenant”, the director came in so I could show him what I’ve been doing and he left very happy. I was particularly happy with the quick Foley session I did quickly in my room, the draw sound I added was a layer of two different draws, one that had a more scraping hi-end and the other had a bit of low-end rumble so they worked together nicely. After listening back on other playback systems there’s still a bit to be done, as some clips have a bit more noise floor than others and it’s a bit too noticeable. The music the director has chosen ties a lot of the scene together nicely but, as far as I’m concerned, it’s still a rough mix that needs more editing.

I also did a bit more work to a couple of D’n’B tracks I’ve been working on and they’re coming along nicely now, I’ll post a few sneak peaks in the next week or so.   

[adamagsaudio]

The Last Week...

So the last week I’ve been working on a dialogue edit for a scene to “The Rise of the Revenant”. At first a wasn’t too happy with the production sound, at which I could only be mad at myself as I was the Production Sound Mixer, but after showing the initial levels I had done to a colleague, he assured me it was fine. I began setting the audio to specific tracks which correlated to the shots on screen and then got all the levels the same. I had them ll up quite high and this took a lot of the emotion out of the scene, as people don’t talk all on one level, so in the next session, I set about making the dialogue passages much more dynamic, by sending all the channels to a bus, watching the scene a few times, and then automating as I went. The results were very good. After this I started adding De-noise, De-hum and EQ to the separate channels and then a small amount of Dialogue De-noise to the bus channel. This also worked well, however, some clips needed to be processed separately because they started to phase quite a bit with too much processing. After watching it back on different mediums, I was quite pleased with the work so far but a few clips need to be processed a little bit more and a bit of reverb needs adding, which I’ll get done in my next two sessions along with the small amount of Foley that needs adding.

I’ve also been trying to get back into making some Drum ‘n’ Bass, which started slowly but I think I’ve got one of my old tracks on a bit of a role now, so I’ll post that up as soon as I’ve got it sounding good. 

I’ve also just been trying to make some bass sounds and get more of a sample library going. Had a good little session the other day and it’s good practice for the sample pack I’m going to make for one of my modules next year, which will be focused on sounds for Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy type productions. 

I’ll post more on this as I do it, until then, speak to you next week!  

[adamagsaudio]

Nearly there...nearly there...

Yesterday, me and my team pretty much finished the mix for “Retribution”! The last thing we did is put a minimal score to it which brought it all together quite nicely. I really wish we’d started this project sooner, because we could have done so much more with a proper score, because music just changes the tone of everything within a film. But hey-ho, we’ve got it done now.

We mixed all the Dialogue, FX and Foley in together, that was our main concern. We did some interesting EQing with the main villain, by slowly taking the low end and some mids out of his voice as he realised he was going to die and his confidence began to wain. At the end as the main character walks out of the room, we made the level of the reverb on his feet slowly rise, as he was the last one standing. 

We’ve got one more session for little tweaks, then it should be done!    

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Visit Original Link

So the little demo I’ve been working on, I know it needs some work, so if you must comment, please be gentle.

I’ve sent it of to some colleagues to get a bit of feedback, but I was just trying to get the right vibe at this point. Let me know what you think :)

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Mistakes, Mistakes and something going...right?

Right then, sorry for my absence, just been having a little break. Anyway, realised I’d bounced all my sounds for game audio in the wrong format, so they probably wouldn’t even import into Unreal Engine. I went back, re-bounced all of them and had a go at implementing one of them in the game. I chose a “gold collection” sound as this won’t need to change throughout the game and was fairly simple to implement...or so I thought. I actually had to ring one of my colleagues and he had to walk me through exactly what to do, but I think I have a bit of a better grasp on what I will need to do for the rest of the project.  

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Editing

Just been editing my composition a bit today and I think I’ve got it to a point where I can send it of to some colleagues and get a bit of feedback. I’ll post what I’ve got so far because any feedback is very welcome.

I’ve also made a start on a minute trailer for my video edit, but this time going down the route of a ‘holiday’ style. I think I’ll probably keep going down this route as it’s a bit easier and with all the projects I have going on at the moment, I think making this one the easiest will suit my mental health a bit more!      

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Some Composition, More FOLEY!

Today, just worked a little on my composition for the animation short and I think I’ve got the vibe down but I just need to work a little on the actual sound now. But I keep finding myself going back to different elements that I could add or take away so need to start addressing the technical aspects a bit more. I’m going to send it off to some of my colleagues soon and get there opinion on it and go from there.

Also, we finally got up to stage in the Foley sessions where we can start mixing! Charlie had kindly stripped all the silence from the recordings before the session today, so we just recorded the last characters movements and listened to everything and made some comments and notes on what we are going to implement next session.     

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The Fear of the Unreal..Engine 4

Tonight, instead of actually going into the gaming engine, Unreal Engine 4, I decided to gather a few samples and open up a sound-design session in Pro Tools and start creating the sounds I would need for the game level I’m working on.

It went pretty well, I got 7 of the 8 main sounds I want in there, just by mixing 3 to 5 sounds together to make a new sound. They need a bit of work still and I do need to find additional sounds for certain things in the game level, but for a first session it went really well!