Monday, 1 October 2012

LO3: Be able to create sound assets for an interactive media product following industry

Plan: asset management (file storage and retrieval, naming conventions); workflow (scheduling, efficient
time management); deadlines (production milestones, deliverables, quality assurance)

Recording sound: recording log; recording (fieldwork, studio); audio sampling (file size constraints, sample
rate, mono, stereo)

Audio levels and metering: meters, eg VU meter, peak program meter; standard operating level
Sound manipulation: importing; editing, eg cut, copy, paste, trim, channel mixer, cue points, markers;
effects, eg amplify, chorus, cross fade, delay, echo, fade in/out, invert, envelope, normalise, pan, reverb,
reverse, re-sample, silence; time and pitch, eg Doppler, stretch; filters, eg pass (band, high, low), notch,
noise reduction, pop/click, equalisation; loops; cue list; playlist; mix down

Industry practice: reflect on finished product (compared with original intentions, fitness for purpose,
technical qualities); production skills (ideas generation, workflow and time management, technical
competence, teamwork)


Sound recording log

Date
Recorded sounds
November 12th 2012Made soundtrack for my advert.
November 19th 2012Recorded sound effects for my advert in the studio and downloaded copyright free effects from www.freesoundeffects.org 
November 26th 2012Started recording the narration in the studio.
December 3rd 2012Finished recording narration in the studio.


My audio file sizes were very small in size. All of them being under 10MB apart from the actual soundtrack for the advert, which was 160MB in size.

Industry practice (reflecting on finished product)


I started the production with a good idea of what I wanted to achieve in terms of audio on my advert. In regards to the final product i believe it matched my expectations of a high and professional quality. 

Elements that I have most improved on during this production include; comfortably using audio software including Cubase and Audacity, professionally recording audio and working to meet deadlines.  

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