Soundtrack planning

Audio techniques:

List of sound recordings

• 3 Pieces of music. (Written and composed)

This will be written by me and my Dad. We will then compose the music using the equipment we have at home. We will write a track that has an 'everyday life' theme, one that is slow and 'curious' and the last will be tense, but fairly slow using piano and other light sounding instruments. Once recorded we will put them into the software 'Clean' and make sure they sound the best they can. 

• Character's voices.

We are going to dub the pop up character's voices. When recording them we will use pedal effects to make our voices sound distorted and creepy. We will each take on a character's voice; Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat and White Rabbit. These recordings will also be transferred into 'Clean' and adapted to sound as good as it can. 

• Poem narration 

Our film will include a narration of the famous Jabberwocky poem. This is for during the chase scene and will have the tense music playing at the same time. The poem will be read in a deep voice using the same 'Clean' process.



Equipment that is needed

The equipment we will be using is all owned by us. We are not renting any equipment out because most of the production sessions are not planned very far ahead so we wouldn't know when to book things for. We are using the sound from the camera we are using because when we filmed our 48h challenge the sound was very clear. We are only using live sound for one scene; the only dialogue scene. When we record the music, pop up voices and poem we will be using a music studio set up that may be seen as dated. We have a wide range of instruments including synthesisers, keyboards, guitars and a lot of other strange ones that we may not even use. We will be recording on Tascam 4-track directly onto cassettes. We will create some Fx with guitar effect pedals and an analogue synthesiser. The recordings on tape will be transferred to Clean software and exported as a good sound file.


Sound editing

We will be editing the sound on 'Clean' because we do not have Soundtrack Pro at home, it is also easier to transfer the cassette recording to this particular program. We will change sound levels, effects etc. all on this software. When we put the sound clips into Final cut we may have to change the volume levels of the different sounds if some are too loud and overbear the other sounds.


Music
We will have a large amount of music in this film because I think that it is what will convey the right feelings. There are going to be 3 primary pieces of music.

Dialogue
There is only 1 scene with dialogue half is dubbed voices and half is live audio. The rest of the film is music-based.

Foley 
We started creating the sound of a door falling on the floor for the final scene of the film. But unfortunately it didn't sound quite right and didn't look right with the shot. It looked more dramatic silent.

SFX
There are some SFX that are just there from live audio like mugs being put down on a table and other ordinary sounds that occur. We are not adding any SFX in because they are not needed.