Film Reflection 3

February 9th 2009

This lesson, my class and I learnt sound techniques that could be used in a movie or a clip. First of, we watched a video about many different sounds that could be used to improve the sound quality of a movie. For instance, the video showed a clip of a dinosaur eating leafs, because it sound much louder and clearer if the sound was retaken and edited, the man in the video poured salt in a little sac and started grasping it with his hands, creating a munching sound, similar to leaves. Another exampled showed in the video, was of a dinosaur running. I found this one really interesting because the retaken sound was actually a brick being bashed against the floor, and it sounded so similar. I also learnt that when a sound is being recorded, there has to be dynamics in the process as well, just like the dinosaur running, the volume of the sound retaken went softer as the dinosaur ran farther away, which is what made the video seem even more realistic. After watching the movie, my group, Nick, Clare, Joe and I tried to make the sounds ourselves. We were asked to record or create a variety of sounds, these consists of, water, work, time, emergency, danger, love, silence, joy, youth and destruction. For each different sound, we used different techniques and methods of recording them. The sound I found most fun recording was destruction, since it is very challenging, my group and I tried many ways of creating the sound; for instance, hitting on walls, stomping really hard on the floors, and many more. At the end of the class, I successfully learnt how to make and edit sounds so that the final product of a video would be better, because the sound of the video is very important, especially to the audience. I also learnt many methods of making a certain sound. I thought this class was very fun, and very useful. I will definitely use the techniques that I learnt today, especially for filming purposes in the future.