Unit 14 and 16

Friday, 20 December 2019

Wednesday, 18 December 2019

Tuesday, 17 December 2019

As the image shows above, we began by I first began by creating an empty project on garage band to start recording our Radio drama as this allows us to alter and improve the audio tracks as we went along. We then created separate tracks for each sound such as Ashley and Sophie, presenters and fans as this would be easier to overlap sounds when editing.

We printed off our script that we had written during pre-production as this was easier to read directly off when recording our Radio Drama. We recorded the dialogue with a USB Microphone as it made the Drama of better quality and this will also be recorded directly on to the project. After we record all the characters we saved and uploaded this to YouTube as our offline edit.

We then started making improvements to our edit by using the feedback we gained from our offline edit, after we made all the changes and alterations, we started recording all our sound effects, jingles and Foley sounds using an Audio Microphone as this was portable which allowed us to take it anywhere to record sounds. We began by recording our Foley sounds as it will allow our audience to identify the location of the characters. Simran recorded the sound of a train passing by ,I recorded the bus engine and the passengers then we both recorded the iPhone ringtone and notifications on the USB microphone at school. We also imported all the Foley sounds from the voice recorder to our editing software to begin adding them to each scene.

We then tried to find copyright free music that would be suitable for our radio drama and this would be played during every pause in the drama. We found copyright free music on YouTube which we imported on YouTube converter and changed it into a MP3 audio file and then imported it on to YouTube.

We also made a jingle that would inform the audience about the radio stati0on they’re listening to and included a voiceover on it saying “Chadwell heath radio station” which we added in the beginning of our drama.

We then used pitch correction to adjust the sounds and dialogue as some sounds/dialogue were quitter than others so we used the tool to make it all the same.

Then after we completed editing, we imported into iTunes was then uploaded on to final cut pro and added a photo that would be shown while the drama was being played. Finally we uploaded it to YouTube

Monday, 18 November 2019

sound formats

Sound Format

WAV: this is an audio file format which was developed by Microsoft. An advantage of using WAV is that it is fast decoding and it can be played on most window applications that support sound. However it is a very large file size.

AIFF: this is an audio file format which was created by APPLE Company. Its main purpose is to store sound data featuring numerous sound bitrates used in PC or other audio utilities. The advantage of using AIFF file is the output of exceptional sound quality however it will take up more storage than any other lossy formats.

FLAC: this is a type of lossless MP3. It is mostly used where the quality of sound is essential. This is a compressed lossless which means that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. It takes up less space than WAV and AIFF and is becoming one the most popular formats due to it being an open source. It is also extremely fast at decoding and supports multi-channel and high-resolution streams. However it compresses less efficiently than other popular modern compressors such as Monkey’s Audio.

Mp3: It allows anyone to create their own implementation and has fast decoding, lower complexity than other sound formats such as AAC. However this sound format is lower performance than modern codecs.

AAC: It is a lossy format that is similar to mp3 but includes some performance improvements.: It reaches transparency in most samples and for most users at around 150 kbps and has several implementations, containing ones that are high quality and free. However many players only support LC at the moment so you will have files that are valid except your player won’t play them.

Ogg Vorbis: This is an audio compression format An advantage of this is that it is easy to use high level Application Programming Interface; also it is suitable for internet- streaming. A disadvantage for this is current implementations are more computationally intensive to decode than mp3.

WMA: it stands for windows media audio and uses a lossy compression system. This is a file extension used with windows media player.An advantage of using WMA is that it is more convenient for window users and it has better sound quality in low bitrates. However as it was designed for windows it may have some compatibility problems with other platforms.

Storage: For storage, sound files can be stored on digital drives such as USB stick or flash hard drive which can be connected to computers and laptops to transport the file on to the device. These digital drives are portable which makes it easier as it can be accessed on different devices. And to save all your production work, you can use Apple iCloud and google drive as they are the safest options to save all your production work.

Compression: this is extremely important in audio production as it evens out the dynamic range and it is useful to smooth out a vocal track that pitches from extremely loud to soft. This also allow you to record more precise and clear sounds as it keeps an instrument range within the range of the recording equipment. This is controlled by upwards and downwards compression which decrease the loud background noises.