Practical Task - Removal of Unwanted Sounds from Clips

Practical Task - Removal of Unwanted Sounds from Clips

Once I inserted all of the clips and put them into the correct order that corresponded with our storyboard I had to remove all of the unwanted sound that would clash with our chosen soundtrack. I re-watched all clips and removed the sound from clips that included voices and unnecessary sounds from when we was filming. This included the majority of the clips but there was a couple that had sounds that we needed and I had to decide if they were of good enough quality to use of if they would need to be replaced with sound effects.

 

The clips that I had trouble decided whether to keep the sound in or not was the wood being kicked down at the beginning of the opening and also the lighting of the match which is the final scene. Finally I decided that using a sound effect for kicking the door down would be bolder and therefore more effective and also because there was talking in the background of that clip I would need to remove the sound anyway. On the other hand I felt the original sound in the match clip was really powerful and strong and I believed it sounded very professional so I made the decision to keep the original sound in that clip and to not use a sound clip.

 

Evaluation

This was a very simple but important job because important decisions needed to be made about the removal of sounds from certain clips. If we left in the sound in clips where there was talking that was unrelated to the film opening then this would not sound right and would be very confusing to anyone watching as they wouldn't know if it was meant to be part of the film opening or not because it wouldn't fit with each individual clip. But on the other hand there may have been sound that was originally recorded within the clip that we could of used because it sounded realistic such as the scene where Kelsey kicks down the door. I therefore had to make the decision whether the sound in each clip was of good enough quality to keep or whether it just made the film opening seem unprofessional.