Today was the first day of sound editing, I used some techniques that Lucy Mitchell suggested to use in her lecture in previous weeks. The first being completely duplicating all the sound from the OMF import and then making the originals inactive. This allowed me to have a completely original copy of the audio in the same location to pull from if anything should go wrong with the copy I’m editing.
I then moved onto cleaning up the project, by naming, grouping and colour coding the tracks. I also chose to split the dialogue and its background ambience up, this allowed me to treat them separately when editing them.
Once the session was set and ready to go I chose to go through with the director and have a ‘spotting’ session. We watched the picture lock through several times and I made notes of directions given by the director for how he wanted the project to sound. We noted music placement, treatment of scenes along with any additions to the sonic environment. After this I went through on my own and made notes of things that I needed to adjust with regards to the audio over the next couple of days editing.
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