Recording our sound

Recording our sound

For our green screen scene in our trailer, the protagonist's imaginary friend whispers into the protagonist's ear repeatedly saying the antagonist's name. As this is a schizophrenic episode of the protagonist's we wanted to achieve a disorientating feel with the use of sound. 

We recorded 3 layers of Natasha saying "Charley" each at different speeds so we would be able to link the layers together, so we could achieve the final product that we wanted. I started off by importing the 3 audio clips into Logic Pro and assigned them to audio tracks 1 - 3. By assigning them to separate audio tracks, we were able to manipulate each track independently of the others.




An example of this is shown in the print screen opposite. The audio file assigned to track 2 ran on for too long. Therefore I moved the playhead along to the point at which I wished to get rid of and selected "trim by play-head" from the tool bar and trimmed the remainder of it off.

Leaving the audio clips at the length that they are at would prove to be too short to just insert into our trailer. To overcome this issue, I right clicked on a selected track and chose "loop" from the drop down menu and this looped each track. However, it became extremely predictable to listen to.

In order to overcome this problem, I had to select a specific amount of regions that I wanted, in this case I wanted three and then I spread them out along the other tracks at random to add to the tension and build suspense.

                                                                                   After this I trimmed the edges down and made sure that the track was even as possible towards the end. To do this, I faded it out towards the end and then bounced the file and converted it into an mp3 file. Therefore, I could sync it with iTunes and then drag it directly onto our footage.

As a group, we are happy with the way that the recording turned out. It drew on our specific characters e.g. Charley. It was also spoken by our protagonist and will be layered against her imaginary friend whispering it to her. It definitely draws into the schizophrenic mind that we hope to present through our trailer.