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August 3, 2020October 27, 2021

FIN 200 Unit 2

Sound TECH Exercise 1 – sound editing basics

This is a TECH exercise that helped me learn how to use Adobe Audition. I learnt how to edit a sound a clip using different editing tools. For example; uploading a sound file, using waveform editor which is a destructive editing any saved changes made cannot be undone once you close the file. With the multi track editor you can edit multiple layers of tracks within one project. I also learnt how to adjust clip volume, adding a fade, removing atmospheric noises or hums (background noises), as well as adding a room noise. Watching the demo and working through the Tech Exercise, I learnt the basics on how to navigate through the tools in Adobe Audition.

Sound TECH Exercise – Foley

The Foley TECH exercise taught me how to record and make sounds. The Foley technique is where a sound is made and recorded for a number of purposes. For example; podcasts and motion picture’s sounds recorded and then put together to tell a story in editing. Foley was first introduced over 80 years ago by a man named ‘Jack Donovan Foley’, the first person to record recognizable and realistic sound effects by using common and simple house hold items. The Foley sound effects are widely used all over the world in films, movies, television shows, podcasts, music, video games, live theater, concerts and so much more. Recording and editing sounds was a long and yet interesting, fun process. There was lots of log writing, so you know what your sound are when they are reviewed and edited. I chose to record from the Set 2 sound list. the sounds I recorded were; footsteps on pavement, door handle jiggling, human voice inside, hands clapping, laughing, ambient (background sounds), and two creative picks. I chose to record the sound of my chickens and stirring my morning tea for my creative picks. Listening to the recorded sounds over and over was a major part of the editing process, but trying to pick through the sounds to pick the one i thought was best was the most difficult part of the editing process. All in all i learnt a lot about Foley and how recorded sounds are produce. it was a fun and interesting exercise.

TECH Exercise – Radio Call

In this exercise I used six sound clips and put them together to create a radio call. I used a voice recording, music, a found sound track clapping and laughing. when adding all these sound clips together in a sequence that works, you can use the editing in Adobe Audition to fine tune the sound clip as one track, so that it is smooth flowing and appealing to the ear.

Exercise 1 – Radio Call, Oh Yeah.

TECH Exercise – Repairing Audio

I learnt how to repair an audio file in Adobe Audition. I was able to remove a telephone ringing noise, that was out of place in the background noise. I learnt how to remove any popping or clicking sounds that were in background noise. I also learnt how to remove a specific sound i did not like.

SOUND project: A sense of place

Project Proposal #1 – Soundscape + Reflection

Good Morning on the Farm: good morning kids, good morning cats, good morning dogs, good morning ducks, good morning chickens, and GOOD morning tea.

An abstract photo of the feeling of sound from ‘Good morning on the farm’

I would like to capture the feelings and emotions through of my husband caring for our animals every morning. Here is a brief description of the sounds i would like to capture.
Kock-a-doodle-doo…..Every morning my husband wakes up to his early morning alarm, fills a pot full of water and puts it on the stove to boil for his morning tea, then he sets out for his morning duties to the farm. He opens the front door sits down on the front steps, lights a smoke and puts on his boats. He then heads out to tent to our animals. He walks half way through the car port and is greeted by our five hungry mouse catchers and our dog waiting for their breakfast. My husband feeds the cats and dog and heads out the back door. The ducks run up flapping their wings with excitement for their morning snack. He tells the ducks to hold on he will be back with their treat, scratch and cracked corn. He opens the door to the chicken coop and greets the chickens with a good morning. He grabs the bag of feed and tops up the feeder, then puts the bag of feed on the ground and heads out the door and closes behind himself. My husband head back into the house leaves his boots on, grabs a mug, sugar, and tea bag from the cupboard. He put the mug on the counter, pours the boiling hot water into the mug, adds the milk he grabs from the fridge and gives it a stir. he then heads to our bed room. “good morning Hunny I made you a tea”. 2 minutes long.

Project Proposal #2 – Soundscape + Reflection

A Mothers Bliss : A day at the beach with her children.

An abstract photo of the feeling of the sound of A Mothers day of Bliss

The sounds of love, excitement, joy and laughter while at the beach with my children are the sounds I will remember for a life time. I would love to captures the essence of those sounds, so that my feelings of bliss during these wonderful moments can be shared. As we pull up to the rocky beach on a warm windy day, we can hear the waves crashing on the rocks and the wind blowing through the near by trees. As I stop the vehicle the kids are opening their doors and hopping out, the door slam shut and their feet hit the pebbles on the ground and start running towards the water, all before I can turn of the engine. I am sitting in the drivers seat soaking in a moment of my silence. I take in a deep breath of fresh air and enjoy all the sounds around me. I can here the kids in the distance, “come on mom, look at what i found, come see this mom, hurry up mom”. “I’m coming” I call back. I ease myself from the vehicle, shut the door and head down the rocky beach full of smooth pebbles. My toes are now in the water, as I sit down on a large rock emerge from a big tidal pool, protected by the crashing waves. In a distance my kids are splashing through the water. they make their way over to where I am dipping my toes in the water. “wow those are amazing guys”. I drop my treasures in my pocket as I watch them run back down the beach. My toes are whooshing through the water as I watch and listen to all the precious sounds around me. The kid’s excitement and joy is reflected through their laughter, enjoying these precious moments together. I take a deep breath of the fresh air and let out a sigh of bliss. and think to myself ‘I love this’. 2 minutes long\

Good Morning On The Farm – A Sense of Place – Soundscape and Reflection

sound project Draft

SOUND Project: A Sense of Place

Soundscape: Good morning on the farm

This soundscape ‘Good Morning On The Farm’ is a typical morning at my family’s home. I tried recapturing all the sounds i wake up to every morning. I used voice recordings of my own voice trying to sound like my husband, but I am not much of a voice impersonator, it just sounds like me. I also made sounds using ‘Foley’ by using found objects to mimic real sounds. For the sounds I didn’t have time to reproduce or that were just not that great sounding, I used an online source; https://freesound.org. Freesound.org is a really useful and easy site to find all kinds of free sounds.

(OS)- onsite source, (OL)- Online source, (Foley) – made sound from found objects, (Voice Recording)

Sound list (Script)

1. Good morning Alarm- Rooster (OL)
2. Calm happy morning wake up tune in back ground turns on (OL)
3. Corey yawning (OL)
4. Corey gets out of bed- Feet hit the ground- Blankets Moving,THUMP. (OL)
5. Walks to bathroom – inside footsteps(OL)
6. Corey clears his Throat and spits (OL).
7. Pees and flushes toilet (OL)
8. Corey walks to kitchen – inside Footsteps (OS)
9. Corey picks up metal pot (Foley)
10. Corey fill pot with water from kitchen tap (Foley)
11. Corey puts pot onto stove – set Metal onto glass (Foley)
12. Corey turns and clicks stove nob on (OL)
13. Corey walks to the front door – 3x footsteps (OS)
14. Corey opens front door – door handle giggles (OS)
15. Corey sits down on front doorstep (OL)
16. Cat meows (OL)
17. Corey says “Good morning baby” – (voice recording)
18. Corey rubs the cat from head to tail 3 times (Foley)
19. Cat purrs (OL)
20. Corey puts on his gumboots (Foley)
21. The cat meows and paces frantically cat (OL)
24. Corey picks up bag – paper rustling Corey pours cat food into dish (Foley)
25. Corey walks to back door of carport – footsteps on pavement with gumboots (OS)
Door handle giggles and door opens (OL)
27 a. Corey steps from pavement to rocky dirt – rubber boot shuffled on pavement with a squeek then rubber boot shuffled onto rocky dirt (Foley)
Corey walks from back door to chicken coop on rocky dirt – footsteps on rocky dirt (Foley)
. Metal door of chicken coop opens and Chicken sounds (OS)
Corey walks into coop – footsteps on hay and pavement (OL)
30. Corey calls the chickens –voice Recording (OS)
31.Corey picks up bag of chicken food and pours into metal chicken feeder (OS)
32. Corey walks out of coop – footsteps on hay and pavement (OS)
33. Metal door of chicken coop closes (OS)
34. Corey walks from chicken coop on rocky dirt to the back door to – footsteps on rocky dirt (foley)
35. Door handle giggles door opens, Door closes (OL)
36. Corey walks back through carport to front door– footsteps on pavement with gumboots (OS)
37. Corey takes off boots steps up the 2 stairs and opens the door – footsteps on carpet and (Foley)
38. Door handle giggling front door opening. Front door closing.(OL)
39. Footsteps inside (OS)
40. Corey picks up a mug – pottery clanging (Foley)
41. 2 footsteps inside. (OS)
42. Corey picks up pot from stove – metal sliding on glass (Foley)
43. Corey pours hot water into mug – water pouring (Foley)
44. Corey picks up metal spoon – metal clanging (Foley)
45. Corey stirs tea (OS)
46. Corey puts spoon on counter – metal placed on wood (Foley)
47. Corey walk to bedroom – 8-10 footsteps inside (OS)
48. Moves blankets and Corey says “Good morning Hunny, I made you a tea” – (Recorded voice)

August 3, 2020December 7, 2021

FIN 200 Unit 1

Video Final Project: Video Sequence and added Sound

‘Save the Pure’ – 0:02:25

This is a video sequence which displays the Canadian flag at the beginning and end off the sequence just after the title and before the end credits. It also shows different bodies of water and garbage floating in the water, as well as a landscape in which was devastated by humans cutting down it’s trees. The added sound is from freesound.org which is the sound of light rain in the background throughout the entire video sequence, and there is foreground music with piano and guitar melodies. The only original sound left in the video sequence is the Canadian flag flapping in the wind.

Video Project Proposal 1 & 2

Thumbnail templates -Pencil Drawings

Video Project Proposal #1 :Destruction, A Natural Movement

#1 Consumer Products and Garbage – 8 x 1 Second Still Clips (MC)(CU), Eye View

#2 Mountain Tops – (EWS)(ELS) Aerial View

#4 Base of Waterfall – (MWS) Eye View, zoom out

#6 Side View Flowing River – (MWS) Dutch angle View

#8 Road Moves Backwards – (WS)(LS)Slight High Angle

#10 The Four Elements; Earth, Fire, Water, Air (FS) (EWS) (ELS)

Video Project Proposal # 2 – A Piece of Mind

#1 Person Walking into the Darkness – (LS) (WS) Eye View

#5 Feather Spinning In Darkness – (FS) to (ECU) Low Angle View, Zoom In.

#7 Six Stills of Emotions Light (FS) (LS) (WS) (MS) Eye View / Low Angle View

#9 Person Walking Away From the Darkness (LS) (FS) to (ECU) Eye View

MOVIE REVIEWS

Title Sequence Review: True Blood

The Fits : A Review

The central Themes of the film are of Boxing and Dance and a young girl who engages in both. The main charter, a young girl named Tony, stood out to me the most, I felt a connection to her. She was constantly alone in her own thoughts watching everything around her from the out side, she had passion and ambition she is a Boxer, but when she saw the dancers at the beginning of the movie she knew that is what she really wanted to do, and she practiced until she learnt that dance. The color throughout the film were dull and neutral cool earthy tones, but when Tony and the dancers were in the gym for dance the colors brightened up with more colorful clothing and costumes. the color pallet of scenes of the Boxing gym were blues and reds and whites. The shots throughout the film were quite intimate, with lots of close ups (CU)of the main character Tony. most of which had the background burned so the focus was on Tony. Overall I liked the film but could not really understand the sickness the dancers were getting and what it meant.

Lecture and Quiz : Video As Art

Installation Art is set up in a space where people can go physically view the art in person. It is a form of art the keeps the viewer interactive with the art piece. Whether the viewer is listening to a sound piece and watching a series of videos shot put together to form beautiful video soundscape . Or installation art can be interactive or it can be viewed as sculpture, paintings or drawings. The ideas and concepts for installation art is unlimited.

VIDEO + Sound Basic Editing

TECH Exercise: Titles

In this TECH exercise I learnt how to add black space at the beginning and end of the video sequence. I then learnt how to add names and titles with in the video sequence and the black spaces.

TECH Exercise: Sound Edit, Premiere Pro

In this sound edit TECH exercise I learnt how edit the sounds in each clip, as well as copying ambiance sound from a video clip and adding it to a different part in the video sequence.

TECH Exercise: VIDEO Color and Blends

In this Tech exercise, I first learnt how to upload media in what is called a project folder, that is where all the files you are working with are stored. I then learnt how to match skin tones of the different video clip in the sequence. There is a Lumetri Color Correction option, where you can adjust the saturation and black and white values, adjust the of level of Reds, greens, and blues in each video clip. You can adjust the shadows, mid tones and highlights. I also learnt that instead of adding an effect on top of each clip you can add an adjustment layer, and the effect is with in all clips in the video sequence. there are lots of different ways to blend the video clips together, too many to list, but it was fun to play around with.

https://youtu.be/jWa3OT1vDXw

TECH Exercize: Introduction to Premiere Pro

In this Tech exercise I learnt how to upload and do a few quick edits using video clips provided by my class instructor. I uploaded the video clips on a timeline in a video editing software called Premiere Pro. In Premiere Pro I learnt how to add, delete and fade sound from a video clip, get rid of black space within the video clip, delete a hole clip in the time line, resize different clips to all match the same picture size, I also learnt how to slow down, speed up and reverses a video clip and add transitions so each clip looks smooth and nice when changing to another video clip, as well as adding black or white or a color to the beginning and end of the video timeline.

https://youtu.be/VsPWbf6dPww – link to my copy of the Tech Exercise

https://youtu.be/VsPWbf6dPww

Exploring Camera Shots + Angles

TECH Exercise: FRAMING SHOT SIZE + ANGLES

**Feather** – Wide close up, Worms Eye (Low Angle)

**Daughter Meditating on Grassy Hills Surrounded by Forest** – Long Shot (LS), Wide Shot (WS), Low Angle

Grass and Ocean Landscape – Medium Shot (MS), Extreme Long Shot (ELS), Eye View

**Sky Sun Clouds and a Bird** – Extreme Long Shot (ELS), Extreme Wide Shot (EWS), Worms Eye (Low Angle).

**Waves on Ocean Beach Pebbles** – Medium Close Up (MCU), High Angle.

Ocean Beach – Medium Wide Shot (MWS), High Angle.

Ocean Beach Landscape – Extreme Long Shot (ELS), Extreme Wide Shot (EWS), Eye View.

Fire in Wood Stove – Extreme Close Up (ECU), Eye Level.

FORMAL ELEMENTS IMAGE SEQUENCE + ANALYSIS

Image Sequence 1 – A Day of Riding

Formal Elements Analysis (Sequence 1)

Color Palette : The colors throughout the image sequence are rich in greens, browns and skin tones. which sets a earthy, outdoors mood. The warm earth tones with the accenting reds, blues and purple colors gives a feeling of warmth, joy, love and excitement .

Scale + Perspective: The perspective throughout the image sequence is at eye view, but the view in the first image in the sequence is slightly tilted down. the scale changes within the sequence. The first image is a medium shot showing the viewer depth of field. The second image is quite different as it is an extreme close up putting the focus on the eyes of a person. The scale changes throughout the sequence giving your eyes a different composition in every image in the sequence.

Negative Space: Image one, three and five in the sequence the negative space fills the composition. The empty space on the gravel road gives you a feeling of freedom and not knowing what is to appear.

Depth: There is a push and pull within the sequence with long shots, close ups and medium shot. The images push your view back to see the depth of field, then pull your view in putting the focus of the figures and objects in the landscape.

Image Sequence 2 – Rest Stop

Formal Elements Analysis (Sequence 2)

Color Palette: The vibrant oranges within the earthy tones of greens, browns and blues in the last three images brightens the moods of the images and portrays and happy feeling. where as the images one through four have cool tones, blues, greens, greys and browns. The cool gives a feeling of stillness, or loneliness. at the start of the image sequence the mood is cold, quiet, as you move through the sequence the colors change and get brighter which ends the sequence in a bright happy mood.

Scale + Perspective: The perspective start off as an overhead shot in the first two images in the sequence. the in moves to eye view for image three, four and five. In the last two images, six and seven the perspective shifts to a high angle view then a slightly tilted down view. The perspective moves your view to, looking down, to looking straight, to looking down again. The scale go from close up to far way to close up again.

Negative Space: Negative space fills the composition in the first two images in the sequence which gives a feeling of emptiness. Then the rest of the images have little or no negative space and the feeling of richness and fullness is portrayed.

Depth: At the start of the sequence your view is close pulling you in and the sequence progresses you get a sense of depth. The composition has landscape and more colors. As the composition ends, the depth of field disappears again.

August 3, 2020August 4, 2020

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FIN 201 Unit 2

FIN 201 Unit 1