Week Ten.

I found a big issue with my audio this week. Because you have to plug the microphone into either the left or right channel, and use the camera microphone for the other, it creates a very unbalanced sound, having one output record very loud and clear and the other only picking up fragments of the audio. As my film's key element is sound this couldn't do and so I needed a way to fix this. How I went around doing this was to 'render and replace' each sound file on Adobe Premiere to Adobe Soundbooth CS5, and it came up like this:



As you can see, the sound has been picked up perfectly on the left channel but only fractionally on the right. To fix this problem firstly was to turn the audio into one mono track, so both left and right would be merged into one. This looked as so:



Now the audio is even but only coming through one track, which is not right for film, audio for film needs to be in stereo, so to solve this I had to save the file and convert it to stereo so it finally ended up looking like this:



Now the transition is complete and the audio is both stereo and even, now it can be put back into Premiere and then later on edited through Logic to create my fictional hearing. I had to do this for every clip on my film, but now the problem is sorted.

Furthermore I gathered a few more shots over the weekend and now my film looks ready to complete the structure and start sound editing. I may need to grab a few more shots over the next few days to pad the film out but other then that the filming's done. The duration is only seven and a half minutes long, it may be eight by the time I add a few more scenes though. Its not quite ten but I feel its more effective this way, I think it might of dragged on a bit to long if it was the full ten minutes and I feel my point is made in the space of time I've used.