Audio Design Project

Great seeing you again deary bloggie.

I was super busy with all those final assignments lately. What I’m gonna show here is our group’s final assignment on Audio Design subject, done in this semester!

We were supplied with a short video file (approximately 1:30 – 2:00 minutes ) which audio has been deleted, and we needed to incorporate new sound effects, background music and voice-overs to this video using library and new recorded materials.

So we actually booked the recording studio with lecturers prior to connecting our recording sessions. Since the requirement sheet stated that a totally new background music track for the clip will be given extra marks, we have gotten a really kind friend to help us with that – thanks to our junior, Chang Shen the pianist! (now you may admire his composition for Adidas clip)

We were also required to to submit the new script added to the clip, like the voice-over, narration or dialogs. So all in all we must have human voice, music, sound effects, and lastly environment or location sound. Proud to say we have gotten a great help from Renukkah and Arun as our voice-over talents, for the FCUK clip right after Adidas ad! Hearing back their original tracks now it’s so freaking funny! I was actually the one suggested to use Tamil style as our concept, didn’t know it’d actually work well!

Thanks to my group mates who have contributed other crazy ideas man I love them! I would like to apologize for not attending the draft presentation (when we needed to show our log sheet) due to internship interview, and also the final compositing meeting because I was dead-in-sleep! Sobs, please forgive me! Well, below are some details you might be interested in…

The two stages of this project are:

1. Draft presentation (Part I) – 10%
2. Final presentation (Part ll) – 15%

Plus a 5% for our submission, it is 30% in total.

Here is the grading criteria of this final project:

• Voice-overs – clarity & voice acting
• Sound effects (SFX) – appropriateness & roles
• Background music – appropriateness & roles
• Momentum – audio flow & intensity
• Balance – audio levels
• Depth & planning – appropriateness use of reverb /delays /pan
• Consistency on mono/ stereo
• Audio synchronization & timing
• Sound design & overall impression
• Relationship between sound & image
• Creativity & originality
• Presentation skill
• *Group love* (LMAO)

Okay after knowing all details, it’s time for you to watch it!

P/S: It’s a must to enjoy!!!

Oh well, you may ignore the latter part of it. (Shhh. We did that by stealth!)