💧 Project 1

17/04/20 - 05/06/20 (Week 1 - Week 8)
NG MEI YING (0340563)
Video & Sound Production
Project 1

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LECTURE NOTES

17/04/20 (W1)

Sound Production / Briefing

Mr Razif continued to start the first lecture of the sound introduction as well as the first Audition tutorial for the warm-up exercise. Sound is produced by vibration, it travels through all forms of matter such as solid, liquid and gas. Sound can't travel through a vacuum.

Youtube Link: W1 Sound Fundamentals (Lecture)
Youtube Link: W1 Sound Fundamentals - Equalizer (Tutorial)

Sound waves vibrate at different rates or "frequencies" as they move through the air. Frequency is measured in cycles per second (Hertz/Hz). Psychoacoustic means the human perception/reaction to sound or the physiological impact of music and sound.

Properties of musical sound:

• Pitch: Frequency of sound
• Loudness: Intensity of sound
• Timbre: Quality of sound
• Perceived duration: Pace of sound
• Envelope: Structure of particular sound
• Spatialization: Placement of sound

Online tone generator:

• https://www.audionotch.com/app/tune/
• http://onlinetonegenerator.com/

Fig 1.0  Two types of sound waves.

Fig 1.1   Properties of sound waves.

24/04/20 (W2)

Sound Production / Sound Shaping

Today Mr Razif guide us to do some revision on the Rack Effect's parametric equalizer setting to reshape and mimic the sound in a various real-life circumstance like the sound effect of people talking inside the hall, people talking far away...etc.

Rack Effect: 

• To apply nondestructive adjustment on the original audio (unless you click to apply)
• Rack Effect > Parametric Equalizer Setting
• Rack Effect > Amplitude compression > Hard Limiter > Max Amplitude > 0 or -0.1 dB
• Rack Effect > Full Reverb / Reverb (echo) > Preset 

Youtube Link: Week 2 Sound Shaping (Lecture)

01/05/20 (W3): Labour Day No Class

Sound Production / Sound Design Techniques
Youtube Link: Week 3 Sound Design Techniques (Lecture)
Youtube Link: Week 3 Sound Design Techniques (Tutorials)
Youtube Link: Week 3 Exporting the Mix

29/05/20 (W7)

Sound Production / Sound Design Techniques Revision
Youtube Link: Week 7 Sound Design Techniques (Tutorial)

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INSTRUCTION

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PROJECT 1

17/04/20 (W1)

Sound - EX 1 / Sound Corrections 

After we did with the sound production lecture, Mr Razif guides us through the Adobe Audition software. Students were given a file with several version of audios. Our small exercise was to listen to the audio given and identify the differences between the original soundtrack, continue to edit it by using the parametric equalizer setting to make them sound alike to the original soundtrack. Below was the screenshot of the settings.

24/04/20 (W2)

Sound - EX 2 / Sound Shaping

The audio remix of:

• Telephone Call
• Closet / Close Room
• Walkie Talkie
• Big Stadium
• Bathroom/Toilet

01/05/20 (W3)

Sound - EX 3 / Sound Design Techniques

After the lectures, students need to make use of all the sound editing techniques to manipulate the audio given. Students tasked to create 3 audio design which are Variation of punchy sound, Alien/Monster voice as well as the Deep Rich Explosion. Below were some of the progress screenshot as well as the google slide with the completed sound design.