Sound Design Evaluation

For this task we were asked to film some footage of around 30 seconds in length, the footage could include anything of our choosing. Once we had recorded our footage, we were asked to add in our own sounds such as sound effects and some music to set the mood. Alex and I found this particular task rather easy as Alex already had some experience in using GarageBand and I quickly learnt the basics of the program. We split our roles between us, I was to edit our footage and Alex was to come up with an eerie atmosphere to add to it. The editing was incredibly easy as we have used FinalCut numerous times already so my task was finished fairly swiftly. As I had finished, we thought I should also try to find some sounds to add to our footage and then see which one we should use. We quickly decided on which sounds we were going to use. Fitting the sounds to the footage came as a bit of a struggle for me because I couldn’t get the timing of certain effects right. However, after we were shown that we could open our footage in GarageBand and fit it to the timeline of our music/effects, everything was straight forward from then onwards.