One Glorious File

26/11/16 Since I’ve finished recording, editing and implementing all the sounds for silent, all that remains for me to do is mix everything together. I started by exporting all the sound effects as one audio file and opened it as a fresh project in Cubase. I then imported Manny’s music as well as the silent …

Finishing the SFX

24/11/16 Today I wanted to try a finish the sound effects of the video. All I had to do was add some additional ambience, as Manny recommended I do from our last chat via email. And to go over all the sounds making sure everything is panned correctly and my volumes are right. For the …

Emailing Manny

22/11/16 Unfortunately, due do course work and the time difference. Manny and me haven’t been able to skype since 11/11/16. However, we have been communicating via email updating each other as we go. I even included video of my rough mix of the sounds in my last email for him to see what the finished …

Rough Cut

19/11/16 For today my goal was to get a rough cut of all the sounds. I had recorded everything I wanted to, so for the remaining sounds I planned to build the effects with existing recordings I had captured. For the clock tower hand moving, I used elements from the hand crank of the music …

Final Recording Session

17/11/16 I spent most of the day today recording the last of the sounds I would need to finish silent based of my original cue sheet. To begin with, I knew I wanted to improve the impact sound of the bird getting slapped, but at the same make it funny. So I went out and …

Making a Projector

12/11/16 Since Manny had suggested we should have the sound of a projector in the cinema, I spent some time today figuring out how to get one. It would have been great to actually get into a cinema or sample a real projector, but I felt I had enough random sounds that I could probably …

Skype with Manny

11/11/16 Tonight I managed to talk with Manny via email about our progress. He had commented on all of my sounds that I included in my latest video on PixelFlow. He really seemed to like the work that I had done so far and thankfully he found the bird slap funny as well. One thing …

From Pasta to Train

11/11/16 For today’s session in the studio I recorded another handful of sounds. I started by recording a few slaps for when the bird gets hit. I knew that I already had the “whoosh” sound from a previous session, so all I concentrated on was getting a comical slap noise. I simply just built up …

Studio Session 4

10/11/16 I had another small session in the studio today recording more sounds for the project. I didn’t get as much as I had planned on getting this afternoon due to time and other course work. But I was happy with what I got. With Jordan thankfully engineering the session again, I started recording sounds …

Fun with a Tape Recorder

7/11/16 Another afternoon spent in the studio today recording sounds for silent. Today’s main focus was to record multiple different layers for the music box and when it fails. To start off, I found an old tape recorded in the studio which provided lots of great sounds which could be used in for the music …