Assingment 2 Task 1 Car Chase proof

I edited the clips mainly according to the editing decision list, earlier made. I deleted all the irrelevant and unusable footage scattered throughout each recording, having around 5 minutes of usable footage; after which, I grouped them together within a beginning, middle and ending structure, knowing all the clips that I would use and build sounds according to what would be shown on screen.

The loud car rev was obvious at the beginning, then as soon as I was introducing other sounds at the beginning, I lowered the volume scale after the beginning few seconds of the engine starting.

Due to no footage of the backstory of the car chase, I had assembled different sound effects for there to be a reason. I brought in a person running from the left side to the right, connoting to that being the person that would be driving the vehicle, I used alarm bells and gunshots; however, due to this taking place outside and the rest of the footage built around this red car, I had the sounds be taken place from the perspective of inside the car, I used a lowpass on all of the sounds and as the car door opens, I set all the sounds such as the ambiance and alarm bells to normal effect and as it closes again, it would be set back to its original state of lowpass.

At the beginning of the chase after the crime, I had faint police sirens come from the one side of the speakers/ headphones, giving a sense of the further surroundings after establishing the local area and actions. As the camera cuts to the car speeding through the road, I have the car come from both sides, this way it feels like that both cars are now on the same road and that the police car has been able to gain shorter ground between the car we see, adding tension to the scene.

I added diegetic music to fill empty space between there being not many sound effects occurring, this adds depth to the amount of sounds used for each moment throughout the scene whilst having the wanted mood.

The car radio was changed from the previously mentioned diegetic music into car radio static, this reveals that the music that was heard was happening in the world and that the character has manipulation around their surroundings, the radio is more powerful on the right side, however not being so noticeable that it distracts the viewer from it only happening from one side, it was on the right side due to the radio placed on the characters ride side of them driving on the left area of the car, where most of the static heard from the character would be coming from.  I had also done this slightly to the second song ‘sinnerman’, this again would add to the realism of the scene whilst not being distracting to the viewer.

I had gradually lower the volume of the police sirens as the car was distancing from the police, this would add realism and awareness to the situation. I also had added low pass to the siren whenever the shot would be from inside the car, whenever a shot from outside of the car was shown, I would heighten the volume of the siren, lower the volume of the music slightly and remove the lowpass to the siren.

As the police car is shown on screen for one shot, I would have a quieter version of the siren and pick up volume whenever it would get close to the camera, I also had engine and tire sounds come from slightly to the left and as the car drove away from the camera, on the opposite end, it would come from the right, keeping a clear rule and continuity throughout the shot.

The car, coming from the right side of the screen starts more powerful on the right side and progresses through to leveling out between both sides, left and right.

The interior of the car contrasts with the exterior shots and surroundings. The engine between outside and inside shots are different and the outside engine becomes more clear and the inside having a more vibration like sound quality to it, however, the sound that stays the same throughout each types of these shots is the music, being able to be contained in the same way throughout this scene and not to irritate or distract the viewer from the music playing, or else the changes throughout each point would become too noticeable to someone.

During the shot that a grey car and it’s tire can be seen, I had that be the dominant motor, having a larger truck like sound effect around the right side of the speakers, reinforcing the visuals, and as the red car starts to center the screen, so does the audio.

As the character puts their foot down further on the pedal, I have increased the volume of the internal engine, raising intensity and keeping continuity, matching the visuals.

 

Introducing the helicopter, I had the propeller noise coming from the left, further understanding the surroundings and then slowly coming neutral, at this point we can realize it’s chasing the protagonist and that it has probably found them. To raise the power of the helicopter and the magnitude of the problem, I decided to not use any additional deigetic sounds meaning they're no distractions. I also cut apart clips to imitate the helicopter and choppy decision making. The only sounds besides the helicopter was a piece of music that panned from left to right.

I also varied the volume of the helicopter by pinning points of the helicopters timeline and lowering them gradually, for people not to pick up on what is happening, however might being able to understand distance is closing and opening between the car and chopper.

I cut apart some of the music to keep the theme of the helicopter, in different places keeping the sporadic attitude to the closing section. I added sounds back into the scene, symbolizing the act of coming back to reality, the car engine driving toward and away from the camera was from central to left, the way the visuals had shown it.