Soundtrack Pro

When we had finished our recording we were introduced to 'Soundtrack Pro', this is a piece of sophisticated software which can edit audio. There is also a free music and sound effects library within this program which was incredibly useful, with hundreds of suitable SFX available in the bottom right corner of Soundtrack Pro and with a helpful search button, the perfect SFX were easy to find and to get to grips with. There are various tools on Soundtrack Pro such as the blade tool, fade tool and echo tool. After a few lessons, I found Soundtrack Pro was much easier to navigate.

We split our recording into three sections so we could each do our own editing and I edited the first two scenes. In the first scene there were lots of fake radio broadcasts that had to be added into the recording. For this, I had to cut up the entire recording, and find the dialogue that was read by the radio broadcaster. When I did this, I then had to change the levels of the speech and use the distortion tool to create a 'radio' effect. I used bitcrusher for this. I then also added an SFX underneath the speech called 'WalkieTalkie', which made the whole radio broadcast seem much more realistic and effective.

In scene two, there is a key moment where a building collapses and Jen nearly gets killed. For this, I cut the speech up using the blade tool and used many different sound effects piled on top of each other to create a realistic sound. It took me well over two hours after extensive research into different SFX to decide which ones were suitable to use. I finally decided to use the sound of an earthquake, followed by very heavy breathing and then the sound of lots of people running. I also varied the volumes of each different sound effect by putting them in different tracks, and overall, I think that the sound of the building collapsing sounds realistic and proffessional.

After I had finished editing my section over three weeks, my group added all of our scenes together and had a final run through and edited final small things, such as individual fading, before it was put forward for the listening party.