Voice over/special effects

                 To begin the process of my voice overs/audio inserts, I needed to have certain equipment and materials. My close friend provided me with a mic, and also was a great help with the music and special sounds. The mic's quality of sound performance was on key, however the audio for the monster was just my own voice but inserted onto a computer app and distorted. Luckily I had a friend who was an expert at technology and was able to adapt my voice in a voice simulator and change the frequency and accent. Step one of my progress was complete, of course it was all saved on separate files. Next I needed to record my own lines for each part of internal dialogue in my script which didn't take long. Each recording was saved in a separate file and then worked upon by myself and my good friend Eric to check for any mistakes in sound. There were a few bumps in the road when testing out the audio changer for the monster, certain recordings were becoming too loud and cracked while some turned out fine. When it came time to check our final product we got all the voice overs for internal dialogue, and we figured out and saved my distorted audio dialogue for the monster. In response to the special effects of the movie, I included both music inserts done by my friend Eric, and certain lighting and color changes to the blood scene and darken scenes. The music I have to say was done perfectly, it brought out such a great aspect of horror causing suspense but also thrill with the amount of bass drops. All of the music was being recorded in a room which was sound proof enough to only hear the music, and recorded into a mic from the keyboard. My task was to create the special effects now it wasn't exactly full art effects, but the lighting did change and in fact made certain outlines much clearer. I worked on most of it on photoshop gifted from a friend, and finished up the last touches with light rendering in Imovie to clear up the outline of the props and characters. The work which was done by myself and my friend was given to another friend of mine who is an artist and computer designer. I decided to show him the work in order to get responsive feedback to my movie and what I received was amazing critical feedback. The audio which was glitching out giving us a less rendered audio clip of the monster was due to the program we used which turned out to be 3 years old. He offered that we use a newer model and got better results, ultimately changing our audio clips to render and sound much better. Within the upcoming month I plan to work on this film and improve on weaker spots, by conversation with my teachers and fellow classmates to create the best film I possibly can.     

    

Here is a picture of my main character Jason and his outfit.
   



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