WEEK 7 Day 1: Finalising production, sound and editing

For this final week, for the first couple of days I worked on filling in the gaps for my animation with different short scenes in order to give flow to my work. I next exported the flash file and imported it into ‘Adobe Premiere’ in order to put the final film in order. I had never used this program before, however, in the past I have used ‘Final Cut Pro’ so it was quite easy to get the hang of this new software package. Once I had done this, I recorded lots of different sounds which I would need for each scene and imported them into Premiere and edited them in order to fit the characters.

Fig 1: Adobe Premiere Editing (2014) Authors Own






















Fig 2: Adobe Premiere Editing sound (2014) Authors Own

I found sound extremely hard to produce. What I found the most difficult about the sound was trying to edit the sounds so that they didn't sound too realistic, as it wouldn't fit in with my animation concept. In particular, I struggled to find the perfect voice-over for the troll as some voices were too high pitched. However, after a great deal of time and patience editing, I am pleased with my sound results. In the future I shall try to give myself more time during a project in order to work more on sound. Sound gives life to the characters and so it is important for it to be perfect.

I then added my credits and title ‘Marcus Lost in Trollslation’ to finalise my project. I decided I wanted the credits inside of the film and so I overlaid them over my animation piece using ‘Premiere’.

Fig 3: Credit Placements (2014) Authors Own