Postproduction: Sound Editing Decisions

 Introduction

Welcome Cambridge dream team! Our group has learned the crucial impact that sound could make on film, and with that knowledge that we have previously gained, we realized that our decisions for music, dialogue, and sound effects are essential in enhancing the quality ad coherence of our film. therefore, this post documents a few of the practices of sound use that we incorporated in our filmmaking process, which mainly consisted of using sound editing software, Garage band, to make the ambient/ incidental music in the videos below, in addition to Cap Cut's free, non-copyrighted music and sound effects. In terms of the dialogue in our film, we exclusively used conversations from raw footage, as we did not plan to use voiceovers. Overall, our group managed to effectively navigate and manipulate the features and functions available to us, to our advantage, and this task was relatively short to complete. 

Garageband:

(First Decision)

The second loop was used in the scene with Mercedes and Lizzy having a discussion.

(Second Decision)

These were extra options I created and mixed from my group, just in case the options from the first decision was not enough, or does not suit/ complement the scenes as much.

Editing effects:

Scene from film:

CapCut offers a range of sound features, and one of their options allows s=editors to use a wide selection of free, non-copyrighted music that creators can use, in which we used that option to our advantage.

Editing effects:

Scene from film:

"She"- by Tyler the Creator, featuring Frank Ocean

Editing effects:

Scene from film (both the draft and final product):

"Tonight, You Belong to Me"- by Patience and Prudence

Reflection

All in all, when our group added the music and sound effects displayed in the videos and images above, our film's first draft improve significantly, and while our group doubted that our film would be satisfactory (as our product without sound or much editing, the quality was not at its best), however, when the music and minor sound effects were added to our film, it make all the different and our team, instructor, and peers enjoyed its final product. The video to our team's first draft is casted in the next blog!