Animation Foley: Evaluation

Princess Monosoke Evaluation

When everyone was put into/ chose groups for the soundtrack project, I was paired with William Horsefield, Who originally wanted to do the ‘Akira’ clip. This was wills choice but as I am not good with vehicle sounds, I suggested the ‘Princess Monosoke’ clip as we both could provide the sound this and I could include my knowledge of weaponry and armour to help make the Foley.  We both began on the pre-production, which I am not really good at so that could have been improved.

I became ill and William was on his own when it came to producing the sounds at first but when I turned up, we managed to begin making the sounds. William had made some sounds, which I commented on which were good and which were bad, such as Williams Flying arrows and Running horse sounds were good. Will let me take part in trying to edit but because I had never used Sony Vegas Pro so William decided to teach me about it and taught me the basics of the programme. When it came to creating the sounds, I tried to get hold of a real bow for the sounds but my friend’s bows did not have enough poundage in the string to create the sound of the string and I ran out of time when it came to contacting the people who could provide one so We opted that out for using elastic bands as they can have the tension and the elasticity to create an almost similar sound. Sound sounds were harder to create than others, such as the voices as there was no script and where we filmed unfortunately created an echo in our voices.

I believe that if we were given more time to create the sounds, we could have produced much better Foley and even turned the green-screen room into a Foley studio. That way, there would be little to no echo occurring and we could have planned out how to make each sound better. This way, we could have also improved our sound quality and help them sync in with the clip on an improved level. During editing, We tried to as some echoes to some sounds and remove the echoes for our voices but this was to no avail and we could not figure out how to do this, not even with the help of our tutors, Gary and Scott.