LO4

Learning Outcome Four

Editing and finishing the soundtrack

My soundtrack For Charlie’s advert:

Now that I had all of the required sounds to use for making Charlie’s soundtrack I was ready to start editing them on Cubase. I wanted to have roughly 10-15 seconds of each separate song playing in the soundtrack so that the audience could get a tease of what would be included in Charlie’s advert.

To do this I made the separate clips of different songs overlap each other using fade in’s and fade out’s so that you could tell the difference from one track from another. When I added the voice overs I included them in quiet parts of the soundtrack so they could be heard and understood clearly.

Evaluation of my soundtrack for Charlie’s advert:

I went through three different drafts for making Charlie’s soundtrack. After making each draft I showed it to Charlie for feedback which I would then work on, until I reached the third draft which he said I had perfected.

Finished soundtrack for Charlies advert:

Jack’s finished Soundtrack for my advert:

I was very pleased with Jacks soundtrack for my advert and informed him that it was fine and would not need adjusting.

Evaluation

What new skills have I learned or improved on:

When I first started this course I didn’t have a clue how to use Cubase and was terrible at editing and mixing audio. However as I worked through the course I progressed with my skills of using Cubase and understanding of recording and editing audio. By the time I had come to the final stages of this unit for this year I felt I had a strong understanding of how to edit audio. I was in turn pleased with final soundtrack I produced for Charlie’s video.

Now that this unit is almost at an end I can say that I have much higher understanding of how soundtrack for the moving image works than when I first started on this unit.