Digital Audio - Week 4
- Sara Francis
- Mar 21, 2018
- 3 min read
I finally reached the end of my digital audio class. For the final week, I was to review one of my peers' projects and revise my own based off of feedback provided. (The second assignment is included in a separate post: Week 4 RISE Self Evaluation (DA)
1. RISE Peer Review
Tyler Steyer
Reflect I like how your voice over was written from the farmers point of view. It really gives the audience an inside look at the life of a farmer. It helps give a voice to farmers and shares their point of view. The script was well written and fit the farmer in the video nicely. Your DIA tracks themselves were also paced well. It wasn’t too fast that I couldn’t understand, but it didn’t go so slowly that it dragged. Your MUS was also well chosen. Its sound gave off the appropriate light hearted, happy mood and it also had a “farmy” feel. The FX of the birds chirping was also a good choice, especially since it opened the piece. It set the mood the moment the video started playing. Automatically, the audience should know that the rest of the film would relate to the outdoors or nature, which is the exact impression you want to make.
Inquire Listening to the audio, I noticed that the MUS tracks begin exactly when the DIA does. Was there a specific reason you started the two at the exact same time? I feel like it is a little too sudden, but perhaps that is just me. Also, I know you mentioned in your brief summary that you tried to remove the background noise of your DIA but it wasn’t working. The gaps in the audio are clearly recognizable and it can sometimes lower the quality of the production. Did you try the noise print effect? If so and that didn’t work, have you considered leaving the background noise in and filling in the gaps with it, making it a consistent “background FX” track? That way, it kind of sounds like the farmer’s VO was recorded outside.
Suggest While the overall feel and mood of the MUS track was good, I feel like it ends too abruptly and out of time at the end. Rather than fading out, it just cuts off a few seconds after the screen goes black. When it stops, it is clearly noticeable that it cut off in the middle of the song. My suggestion would be to fade the tracks out when the image fades to black. That way, the audience can anticipate the end of the video, rather than thinking that there was more to it. Another suggestion would be to double check the footstep FX. I feel like they may be out of sync at one point. Also, maybe raise the volume a tad so it can be heard clearly.
Elevate In the end, I think that you did a good job with this assignment. Your script and music choices were your greatest strengths of your mix. They really bring the entire project to life. They give the audience an insider look at the life of this particular farmer and make it a more intriguing story. I look forward to hearing your final revision of this project.
3. Final Revision
After taking feedback from my peers and instructor into consideration, I modified my assignment accordingly and gave a brief summary of my changes.
Summary
Taking into consideration the Feedback from my instructor and peers, there were 3 major changes I made. The first was adding a de’esser to my DIA to smooth out the sharp “s” sounds. It took me a while to hear a difference between with/without the effect, but I eventually found a good balance. The second was adding a hard limiter effect to the footsteps to slightly dampen the sound, as suggested. I also lowered its volume so it was’t so overpowering. Finally, I replaced the second pluck FX with a quieter, less noticeable version as suggested.
Sara Raciti's Final Revision Video with Audio
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