Journal

We were given the Task of adding our own sounds to the no sound video which I then got a piece of paper and worked with Joao and Paige to writing a list of what sounds we could make using what objects for each sound that we pick out from looking at the original video.

I was feeling in need of some inspiration so I decided to bring up on my computer, Netflix and watch parts of the full movie to see what kind of ways we could make the Mr. bean sounds by watching what he does during the many scenes in the movie and also in the dinner scene.

Soon we finished writing down all our ideas of what to use to make each sound and then went into the studio after taking out our Tascam's from the kit room. Recording went well we had some food props to use that we were given to by Harry which helped us a lot since we didn't want to spend a lot on objects for this project. I feel we could have put more thought into these sounds as we were just going along with the video and doing as many noises at a time when we should have tried each sound over and over until we found a simple one that we agree goes with the video, not taking each others sounds but making sure they were different to each other since this was supposed to be a independent project but I find that it helped working in a group only on the sounds. The editing was okay, what went good about the editing was many of the sounds had fit in with the video which I was happy about, I did end up needing to go back into the studio since I was missing a few sounds and had to also rerecord some sounds since we either had a audio problem where something in the background you could hear louder then the actual sound. Importing all the audio files went well I did have trouble trying to find all of them since they were all dated differently then what the actual date they were filmed in. I saved them all onto my hard drive since I didn't have enough space for all the files on my computer. Once I was done editing I then exported it and quickly uploaded it onto YouTube, at this time it was end of the day. When I got to college the next day I checked the video to make sure everything was god and I noticed a small glitch at the end of my video where the sound of the restaurant is actual quiet and all you can hear is the Mr. bean sounds which I wished didn't happen, I then went to go see if I could change it only to find out that it was only showing the last saved edit which was before I was meant to save the last final edit. What I've leant during this project is that I should always save my work no matter where I am.