Soundtrack Tutorial

5th January 2009:

In today’s lesson, we learnt about the different kinds of sound layers and the effect if could have on the audience. Firstly we were shown a trailer from James Bond’s movie called Casino Royale. Then we were told to think about the sounds and its effects. We were given a series of clips and entertaining tasks to complete along with watching and seeking advice from several sound producers. I enjoyed the task where we had to place sounds onto the still image as it was very interesting to see what sound worked well with others and which didn’t.
I also enjoyed layering sounds onto a clip from Casino Royale as it gave me an opportunity to add grunts and tyre screeches in right places.
We then worked on some other sound layering which we started after completing the James Bond clips. We were given our video that we had already edited and were told to make a soundtrack using the program Soundtrack Pro. Using this program I found out that for this particular footage, the drums and shakers worked well as it gave the clip a mysterious effect as you are trying to figure out what is happening in the thriller. I could control the volume of each sound that I used, could overlap them and make them go on for longer. I had fun making a soundtrack to go together with our practise thriller, although I used to hate composing music in GCSEs.