Location: Recording room in the music block.
Here is the order in which I recorded the sounds for the entire thriller opening:
- Foley - Footsteps
- Dialogue
- Foley - Stabbing
- Ambiance
- Pixies - Tame
- Foleys - Wallet drop, clothes rustling and stroking the knife
Equipment Used
- Behringer B1
- Shure SM57
- Firefly 808
- Logic software
- Wooden board
- Wallet
- Watermelons
- Cabbage
- Knives
- Chairs
- Coats
- Chopping board
- Wet cloth
- Soundproofing boards
Foleys
The job of a Foley artist is to enhance the sound of a scene and make the audience believe that everything in a scene, such as a floor made of plywood painted to resemble marble, is real. Foleys are very important to my thriller opening and I will be required to create Foley effects for all the footsteps of the scene, stabbing sounds, the wallet falling, stroking the knife and the sound of clothes rustling. The day started with my group and I experimenting between three different sounds for the footsteps, the options included just the floor in the recording room, a thin wooden board and a much thicker wooden board that I fortunately found on the way to school that very morning.
For the footsteps for the shots inside the hotel, I decided to use the thick wooden board which made the sound most similar to that of the real footsteps in the rough edit. This proved to be a very long task as it required perfect timing between the sound and the feet on screen hitting the floor. However when it came to the alleyway footsteps, I decided to use a chair to for the walk as it resembled the sound of walking on concrete and by this time, recording Foleys was becoming increasingly straightforward. Other Foley sound effects such as the stabbing sound required the stabbing of both watermelons and cabbages, these fruits and vegetables resembled the sounds of a knife entering a body as well as the knife being pulled back out of the victim. Acquiring the right sound for this was crucial as in the extreme close up of the blonde woman on the floor, she is stabbed again however I plan to only show this through her facial expressions and the sound of a knife stabbing a watermelon, a technique famously used by Alfred Hitchcock. Other techniques I used included wiping a knife in a wet cloth to get the sound of the killer wiping the knife clean, as well as rustling a coat for the the sound of the tramp getting to his feet in the second scene right before he is stabbed.
Dialogue
At an early stage, dialogue posed a problem as Adam Canning was not available to join us for his lines therefore I took over and portrayed his character's voice. Because of the recent changes to scene two, the scene now only shows Hudson saying the end of his final line 'it's my goddamn job to know' meaning that only that line had to be in time with what is being said by Hudson on screen. However, because the parallel editing now makes scene two longer, Jake and I had to try and draw out our lines for as long as possible to ensure that there is not a huge pause in the middle of Hudson's final lines of the scene.
Pixies - Tame
Although I am somewhat unfamiliar with Logic and the majority of the editing of Tame was completed by Dan, seeing as I overdubbed Hudson's voice, it would only seem suitable for me to add my voice at the end of my group's edit of Tame. The edited edition of the song to last the length of scene one is perfectly timed to the follow the scene with the music intensifying as the door is kicked down after a quiet start. After the first stab, the panting of both of the singers in the band begin and are supported by the sound of me heavily breathing over the top, to resemble the killer, this will continue as the music fades out and into the fade to black at the end of the scene to ensure that the audience are not let off the hook as soon as the scene ends.
The job of a Foley artist is to enhance the sound of a scene and make the audience believe that everything in a scene, such as a floor made of plywood painted to resemble marble, is real. Foleys are very important to my thriller opening and I will be required to create Foley effects for all the footsteps of the scene, stabbing sounds, the wallet falling, stroking the knife and the sound of clothes rustling. The day started with my group and I experimenting between three different sounds for the footsteps, the options included just the floor in the recording room, a thin wooden board and a much thicker wooden board that I fortunately found on the way to school that very morning.
For the footsteps for the shots inside the hotel, I decided to use the thick wooden board which made the sound most similar to that of the real footsteps in the rough edit. This proved to be a very long task as it required perfect timing between the sound and the feet on screen hitting the floor. However when it came to the alleyway footsteps, I decided to use a chair to for the walk as it resembled the sound of walking on concrete and by this time, recording Foleys was becoming increasingly straightforward. Other Foley sound effects such as the stabbing sound required the stabbing of both watermelons and cabbages, these fruits and vegetables resembled the sounds of a knife entering a body as well as the knife being pulled back out of the victim. Acquiring the right sound for this was crucial as in the extreme close up of the blonde woman on the floor, she is stabbed again however I plan to only show this through her facial expressions and the sound of a knife stabbing a watermelon, a technique famously used by Alfred Hitchcock. Other techniques I used included wiping a knife in a wet cloth to get the sound of the killer wiping the knife clean, as well as rustling a coat for the the sound of the tramp getting to his feet in the second scene right before he is stabbed.
At an early stage, dialogue posed a problem as Adam Canning was not available to join us for his lines therefore I took over and portrayed his character's voice. Because of the recent changes to scene two, the scene now only shows Hudson saying the end of his final line 'it's my goddamn job to know' meaning that only that line had to be in time with what is being said by Hudson on screen. However, because the parallel editing now makes scene two longer, Jake and I had to try and draw out our lines for as long as possible to ensure that there is not a huge pause in the middle of Hudson's final lines of the scene.
Pixies - Tame
Although I am somewhat unfamiliar with Logic and the majority of the editing of Tame was completed by Dan, seeing as I overdubbed Hudson's voice, it would only seem suitable for me to add my voice at the end of my group's edit of Tame. The edited edition of the song to last the length of scene one is perfectly timed to the follow the scene with the music intensifying as the door is kicked down after a quiet start. After the first stab, the panting of both of the singers in the band begin and are supported by the sound of me heavily breathing over the top, to resemble the killer, this will continue as the music fades out and into the fade to black at the end of the scene to ensure that the audience are not let off the hook as soon as the scene ends.
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