EDITING AUDIO

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Working with the audio of a piece of film doesn't seem like it would be a particularly daunting task, until you realize that even a simple change can affect every aspect of the narrative sequence. For this week's project, we added sound to our Five Master Edits project from a few weeks back, and this video is the result of that.

1) Post Synchronization Dubbing: We added the "Inception noise" to the Leitmotif section, which plays every time Josh and I dab. In doing so, I realized how useful Post Synchronization Dubbing is - it doesn't really matter if you forget a line or a sound effect during filming, because you can just add it in afterwards. It's actually a really versatile tool, and I'll definitely be using it in the future.

2) Music: For the Parallelism shot, we wanted to create an academic mood, and we also wanted to get rid of the diegetic sound (Francisco was being very loud!) , and so we decided to add music. We ended up going with a theme from the movie A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe. The music plays during a few montages in which the main character makes mathematical discoveries, and we wanted to emulate that mood.

3) Voice-over: We needed to create some narrative for the Simultaneity shot, and we decided what better way to do so than to say what was going on? A voice-over gives a director a good opportunity to insert exposition without distracting from the action, but we didn't want to ruin the suspense of the shot so we kept the voice-over purposefully vague.

4) Music, Sound Bridge, and Direct Sound: Within the Symbolism shot, there is actually a lot going on, at least sound-wise. The direct sound from the two clips that we edited together consists of a loud air-conditioning humming, and Mickey banging against and trying to open the stairwell door. We wanted to keep some of the direct sound, Mickey banging against the door, but get rid of the rest, so we added creepy music to mask the air conditioning and also to heighten the creepy, mysterious mood. In doing so, I realized that the sound also acted as a kind of sound bridge, tying the two pieces together and cementing their relation.

5) Voice-over: Again, we wanted to explain a little bit of what was going on in the Contrast shot, so we decided to add in another voice-over for exposition. I tried to modulate my voice a little bit to match the tone of the shots and to capture the contrast between the two clips, but I'm not really sure how well I succeeded.

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