Post 32 - Planning- Sound

Sound 

Diegetic Sound 

Diegetic sound is the sound that the camera picks up while filming that are just natural sounds: voices of character and the majority of speech, sounds made by objects being used in the story. These diegetic sounds are sources that have the ability to be heard by all of the characters on-screen. For example, the music played in One Week on the radio of the motorbike as he is traveling west can be referred to as a type of diegetic sound in which music is played to create a feeling for both the viewer as well as the character on-set.

Any diegetic sound that occurs as part of your idea?

No there is no diegetic sound involved in either of my videos, using diegetic sound in my videos would distract from the song and from the narrative therefore I will only use my soundtrack and foley sound. Diegetic sound doesn't work in music videos as well as it works in short films.

Foley Sound

Foley effects are sound effects added to the film during post production (after the shooting stops). They include sounds such as footsteps, clothes rustling, crockery clinking, paper folding, doors opening and slamming, punches hitting, glass breaking, etc. etc. In other words, many of the sounds that the sound recordists on set did their best to avoid recording during the shoot. The technique is named after Jack Foley, who established the basic modern techniques still used today. Like most terms that are named in honour of a person, it is customary to spell Foley with a capital "F".

Any foley sound that needs to be recorded as part of your idea?

Where the two songs overlay where the first video ends and the second video begins, I'm going to have heart beat sounds when they are running and the second video shows a fast pace recap of the second video, I am going to use this to show the suspense and build up of the second video, as the first part of the second video, it shows that something dramatic is going to happen. I was going to have heavy breathing and footsteps but I had a search on youtube for some of the audio and it sounds very cliche. I found this royalty free heartbeat sound which I will speed up to make it seem as though they are running.

Any lip-syncing that needs to be done as part of your idea?

Lip-syncing is a technique commonly used in music videos in which a person featured in the music video moves their lips in time with the vocals of the song. Often, the people lip-syncing are usually the artist/performer of the song, however, occasionally, dancers or characters within the narrative can lip-sync with the vocals too. Lip-syncing is often used to separate narrative sequences from performance sequences, as the fictional characters that appear in the narrative tend not to lip sync. Elly will be lip syncing at the party scene.

Show the point in the lyrics/narrative where these/this will happen..

1. "why aren't you happy being where you wanna be"
2. "I dont wanna be alone, so won't you keep me company"
3. "I swear i'll try my hardest to be who you want me to be"
4. "I got invited to a party, not because they like me, just 'cause when they drink they can't see me anymore, they said they found it funny when said I'm insecure, I'm pretty sure, they're not what I'm hoping for"

These lines will be lip synced whilst Elly's character is at the party, to show how lonely she is, having her sing these lines in one long slow motion shot with everyone partying around her brings emphasis to the lyrics and to the narrative in one motion. The 4th lyric mentions the people around her which will also involved in this slow motion shot, the narrative is sort of playing along with the lyrics, bringing importance to the characters and the predicament Elsie is in.