Today I finished my 4 scenes. I was very pleased with the final touch-ups, I added the sound effects my teacher sent me and I downloaded some others from an online website to add a bit more foley. For the ‘good’ chase scene I added some stronger hits for when Aladdin first slides into action and when the wooden structure falls at the end. For this last scene I also added a wind effect to accentuate the fall. I then added a crash sound for when a barrel gets thrown by Aladdin.
For the other chase scene, I added a different sound effect for when the guards are first shown. It’s a mysterious sound that I found on the same website by clicking random audio files. I also added the crash and wind sound effects from the other chase scene as well as another wind effect for when Aladdin slides down the rope.
For the ‘bad’ dance scene, I added a lot of effects like a bell sound for when the princess’s face is focused and some other weird effects. My favourite is a cartoonish sound for Jasmine’s eyes at around 20 seconds in. I think it’s quite funny and it got me thinking that making a scene with only cartoonish sound effects would’ve been super fun and I definitely would’ve tried it if I had had more time.
The more electronic dance scene (‘good’) also needed some more foley but, unfortunately, Logic X started to overload and I got many weird pop ups. I tried to look on the internet how to optimize the software but it’s not straightforward and I’m a bit out of time now. I did find out that freezing tracks could help and I also bounced in place a number of tracks to reduce the workload on the software but this only allowed me to add about 2 sound effects before it started crashing again. I decided to leave the foley up to there, about 20 seconds in. I would’ve loved to finish that scene but I hope that the editing I’ve done for the other scenes was enough to make up for it. I’ll definitely look into more solutions for this overload so I don’t have to deal with it in the future.
(This is the website I found for sound effects).
Anyway, I had lots of fun but I’m glad my videos are ready. Tomorrow I’ll just fix my blog a bit, (I’m having a lot of trouble figuring WordPress out) and getting everything ready to submit!
My videos are already up!!
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