Editing Day 5: Sound Effects

So in today's lesson me and Zahra decided whilst Charlene and Tomi were putting the finishing touches to our music video we would begin making the sound track for the beginning of our music video. By sound track what I mean is that we have decided to add in a few sound effects before the music starts playing. This is because we feel that as we have a number of different shots before our actually music video begins by adding in sound effects it would flow better.

Here as you can see I have decided to add in a few screen grabs of the process of me and Zahra making the soundtrack for the sound effects. When making our soundtrack we used a programme called soundtrack pro which I think is brilliant as there is so many thing you can do with this programme.

When it came to getting the right sound effects for our music video, we found this process really hard as we had to make sure that the sound effects sounded realistic enough to be in a music video. When it had finally chosen what sound effects we wanted to use which included a clock ticking and birds chirping we then had to cut the size of the sound effect down. This was because the were too long and we only needed the sound effects to last for a few seconds.

Once me and Zahra had put the sound effects in the right order on the sound track pro line we then got Rosie, Charlene and Tomi to listen to our sound effects to see if we had done a good job. So that we would than be able to export and then import our sound track to final cut pro.

I would say that I am really pleased with how our sound effects turned out in our music video as I feel that they were very realistic and flowed with with our shots at the beginning of our music video.