Evaluation

For this project I had to find a two-minute long clip of a child’s cartoon for this clip I had to completely re-edit the audio for this clip this included the sound effects and the music track. The cartoon I choose was from the popular show Tom and Jerry.  

My first task I had to do was record the audio in the clip, this proved to be quite a long winded process and as every footstep or action that would create a sound had to have audio to it. For such sounds we had the option of recording them ourselves or finding them on the Internet for these I mostly used the website (www.freesfx.com) I used this for the sounds I could not record myself for example the sound of a chair being smashed.

The sounds I recorded my self included voices of the characters and the sounds of someone getting hit. These were both easy to record as I recorded them in the class. I also recorded the sounds of footsteps for the characters however I had to speed these up so they would be in time with the action. Another sound effect I recorded the sound of someone snoring

The sounds I gathered from the Internet include the backing music. The sound of chairs smashing and pipes being clanged I also found the sound of an alarm clock I also gathered some comedic sound effects such as a comedy slide whistle and fighting noises.

In conclusion I think my project went rather well however I’m not entirely pleased with my choice of sound effects in some cases for example I think the punching sounds could be a lot better I also think I could have edited the music to fit the clip much better however I felt it fitted the clip well.  If I was to redo this project I think I would have tried to work on it much faster in order to get it done fasted but also I think I would have not included voice overs as this was difficult to arrange and where I filmed them in the class room there was a lot of background noise which difficult to work around.