Filmmaking- Sound Editing

When it comes to editing, the editing of the video footage seems to be the obvious and most prioritised task but in fact sound editing is just as equally as important. For the Think! shoot, there was many sound effects as well as background music to sync up and attach to the final edit. For most of the sound effects I was able to use Jamie's foley work and synched them up to the edit so it flowed well as a film. There were some secondary sound effects that were found online and either copyright free or paid for and they were included in the final edit also.

For the beginning shot in seemed very quiet and was missing something key that was holding it back, I suggested looking for some ambiance music and so we searched online for the right sound for the video. We found a great sound file that was ambiance sounds for a town/city, and had the right sounds to match up with our edit. The majority of the edit is played to two different music files. The first is a swashbuggle/pirates of the Caribbean styled song which was cut and edited twice into the edit, and the other is more of a western/cowboy themed song for the end shootout, which was used 3 various times and cut together to build the end tune. All of the selected and recorded sounds worked well in the edit, and after seeing the final edit with and without sound, it benefits greatly and is enhanced with the sound.

I researched into the broadcasting standards for sound and volume and found this document stating the official broadcasting sound regulations:

https://www.cap.org.uk/CAP-and-BCAP-Consultations/Closed-consultations/~/media/Files/CAP/Consultations/AnnexAofevaluationnewTVadsoundlevelsrule.ashx

It states that the sound level should be no higher than 6dB and I back and changed all the sound files individually, to make sure that the peak of the sound and music does not cross over the broadcasting regulations. This also helped in making the edit sound better and helped defined certain sound effects more having all the sound keeping to one level.