In preparation for my last tutorial, I had been looking at my progress on each of the four scenes and I realized that my second scene (the good version of the dance scene) was quite bad. The music sounded out of tune somehow, very unstable. What I did in complete desperation was switch this version (the “good” one) with the “bad” one because this electronic one could actually work as the good version with some adjustments. I deleted most of the sounds of this previous good version and went crazy with the sound effects. I added distortion pedals (which we recently learned from Joe) to audio recordings I already had and looked for other ones on the internet (small sections of Chinese instruments).I feel like adding these types of sounds to an Arabic theme can work as a ‘bad’ soundtrack because it’s obviously a contradiction.
This is what the pedals look like!
These are the two Chinese instruments I used samples from. The one on the right is the guzheng and the left one is the yueqin.
The dance scene I was working with for the electronic version was quite a long one (because I had lots of ideas for the beginning) so I had to shorten it for this new “bad” version (it still meets my brief’s requirements) because I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with work.
For the horror-themed scene, I added a recording of a creaking door which made all the difference for the suspense I wanted to achieve, but it was already pretty good.
I found myself dissatisfied with my first scene (the ‘good’ chase scene), which was surprising. The way I remembered it, it sounded super cool so it was a definite disappointment. I deleted most of the sounds I already had and created new ones. I also used flex time to quantize some tracks that sounded off. I think the new version was miles better so now I’m ready to send my portfolio for feedback.
P.S. I downloaded a plugin from the internet that’s used to reduce noise in recordings so it has come in handy for some of my phone recordings, like the piano and clapping and other percussive sounds I had previously recorded. I looked for a youtube tutorial on how to use it and I absolutely loved it! It makes such a difference! This problem was worrying me quite a bit so I’m glad I found an alternative.
This is what X noise looks like! (After poking around the website I found out that uploading audio to WordPress sis a premium feature so, unfortunately, I can’t show the before and after of an audio file).
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