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UNIt 17

S C E N A R I O

You are a media freelancer. Produce a resource designed to explain the conventions of sound recording and production to a young audience. Then create a recording of a poem designed to be used to improve engagement with the GCSE English syllabus.

UNIT 35: PRODUCING VIDEO INSTALLATION WORK

UNIT 1: PRE-PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES

B R I E F

S P E C I F I C A T I O N

L E A R N E R  D E C L A R A T I O N

A S S E S S M E N T  S H E E T

T A S K  O N E

A U D I O  L O G G I N G

L O G G I N G 

S P R E A D S H E E T

A C O U S T I C  T E R M S

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T A S K  T W O

C O N V E N T I O N S

A N D

P R O C E S S E S  O F

S O U N D  R E C O R D I N G

figure 1 - autotune

T A S K  T H R E E

Here I put together a soundscape over a recording of a poem by Wilfred Owen, Anthem For Doomed Youth. The poem was written in 1917 and is based around his firsthand experiences in the war and the horror of it.

Anthem for Doomed YouthSoundscape
00:00 / 01:02
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I used Adobe Audition to edit all the sound clips together into a final piece.

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In order to keep everything organised, I split up the clips into separate layers to make them easier to edit and add effects to.

I also used fades in some clips to remove background noise and allow the flow of the audio to be smoother.

WITH FADE
WITHOUT FADE
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V O I C E O V E R

MAIN VOICEOVER

S O U N D T R A C K

BACKING TRACK

I created this soundtrack on Garageband using a USB keyboard.

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For the gunshot clips I also used more than one effect to get the desired sound. While I wasn't really sure what each effect option did, I experimented with a few combinations until I found a suitable noise for a gunshot. I was quite pleased with the end result as the original sound is quite different and quite 'flat' while the final result sounds alike to a gunshot.

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GARAGEBAND MUSIC CREATION

F O L E Y

GUNSHOT FOLEY
GUNSHOT WITHOUT EFFECT
GUNSHOT WITH EFFECT

I applied REVERB in order to make the audio sound more distant and to allow a 'chorus' effect to be heard.

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AFTER APPLYING REVERB
BEFORE REVERB

REVERB

FAIRY DUST
EXPLOSION

S O U N D S  F R O M  I N T E R N E T

GUNSHOT FOLEY

BELL NOISES
LIGHTING MATCH FOLEY
BULLET SHELLS FOLEY
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