Hotel Scene - Final Video

Desert Chase - Final Video

Studio 7 recording - ADR / Foley

 Today I carried out my initial recordings for the ADR elements of the project in a session in studio 7. Having the studio booked out from 3 - 8.45, I was able to carry out a large majority of my work in this one session. For the recording session I was recommended by the studio help desk to use an AKG C-414 microphone for a good clear sound. This microphone was also mentioned and recommended in 'Audio Postproduction for Digital Video' (Rose, 2002) for use in ADR. For the session I was assisted by both Andy Hickey and Luke Fantom, both of which are Leeds Met students, who manned the desk when I was not available and acted for the scenes providing voices. When acting the person in the live room was assisted by both the film to act along to providing cues as well as the marker track. The person recording the vocals was to stand close to the mic so as to eliminate as much room ambience and reflections as possible, giving me a clean recoding which I will be able to take away and edit to fit with the video.

Creating Wind Using White Noise

  To create the ambient wind heard towards the start of the 'Desert chase' scene I decided that the quickest and most effective method in doing so would be to create the sound myself using a synthesiser. This would allow me to wholly effect the sound to fit it to the purpose that I intended as well as eliminating any difficulties with trying to record wind to the quality that I wanted.

Recording of classic Triumph car for truck engine

If I am to collect as many of my own sounds as possible, one of the larger tasks that I face be to obtain the sound that I want for the truck engine in the Desert Chase scene. On deciding to do the sound for the chosen film and considering how I was going to record the sound of an engine suitable for the truck shown in the scene, my immediate thought was this classic Triumph GT6 owned by a neighbour. I recorded the car when it was stationary from three different angles to obtain a different sound on each recording, and to give myself a number of options during the editing process.

Completed marker tracks for film clips

 Completing a marker track for the scenes that I have chosen within Logic will act as a listed guide for both the recording of the sounds as a checklist and a method of easily locating where the sounds are to be placed. The marker tracks will be set into three different groups per each scene; the ambience, ADR, and sounds effects, making it easier to separate between each of the categories.

Books description of Chigurh's shotgun

Cormac McCarthy's description of Chigurh's silenced shotgun in original book - "Left most of the upper part of him spread across the headboard and the wall behind it. The shotgun made a strange deep chugging sound. like someone coughing into a barrel."