Production Journey

MY PRODUCTION JOURNEY

The first part of my journey involved me having to get familiar with the equipment I was going to film with. This meant that I learnt how to work around my way in garage band, and used it to record the actor's voices. The software provided me with the ability to record sound onto a timeline, as well as use a metronome to count my actors in when it was time to record. I could easily manipulate the clips around and then save it into my desired audio file. This helped me to create one long audio sound file for each of my actors, which provided a really organised structure, rather than having each individual line have its own audio file.

Here I have set up my area for recording. I had my MacBook connected with a device to connect the microphone, and then kept my phone on the side which had the script lines on it. This set up was really useful, as it had everything I needed, and also made it easy for my actors to record their sounds. Each of my audio recordings were recorded separately, which I believe ended up being the best decision. This is because I was able to record the audios so quickly, and rerecord more times than I could have if I decided to record all the audios together. This meant that when it would come to post-production, I could layer the audios however I wanted.

Here is when I had recorded 2 of my people, Daniel and the Interviewer. They were recorded separately at different times, however recorded in the same day. This demonstrates how I planned my time effectively.

And finally here is a screen grab of what my editing layout looked like as I was editing. I made a lot of cuts and edits, added music and discarded others. As you can see, I added intro and outro music at the beginning and end of my radio drama. As well as this, I added some copyright free background music in order to set the tone of the drama. Additionally, I recorded some of my own foley sounds, such as the voice chattering that is played in the pub, footsteps, camera shuttering, and even the door slamming. Moreover, as you can see I layered some of my audio recordings on top of each other. Through this I aimed to make it seem as if though the characters were in the same room at the same time, making the dialogue seem as seamless as possible. I hope that this created a more immersive feeling to my radio drama.