Sound Editing Task Evaluation

 We had two sound editing tasks; the first task was to edit the sound on the opening sequence of The Dark Knight with garage band. We did this by using pre-made samples of instruments to create music and/or sound effects.

I did not like this task as I felt limited by what was on garage band, it seemed not many of the samples went with the clip and therefore it became difficult for me. It is because of this that I didn’t feel I accomplished as much as I would like to have, even though I did eventually add some music from the instruments.

For this task I added a number of layers of instruments so that it had a fuller texture- I used multiple stringed instrument, drums and synth effects. I tried to time the clip as well so that the music would stop and start at different parts such as the explosion of the window near the beginning.

As well as just making it sound good, it had to fit with the video, this meant I had to create music that would ever set the mood of the film or try and follow an obvious one. To successfully do this I tried to figure out which feeling the scene was already creating and match it by trying to use altering volumes, instruments and texture.

I would have found this task easier if I used samples from other applications or sources, or if we could perhaps add our own original sounds/songs by recording them or by creating a midi track.

For the second task we had to attempt sound editing on our own piece of random video footage we made in a short amount of time with a camera. We did this by using garage band’s samples of instruments and effects.

I enjoyed this task as the footage had no real theme or genre (it was just one plain simple clip), this meant we could make it be whatever we wanted. This was good as it meant a lot of the samples went with the clip and were easily used to influence a feeling and genre. I had fewer problems with the samples given to us for this sound editing task as timing was less of an issue and most things worked, although I would have still liked to add things from other sources than garage band.