Applied 2: Post Sounds

Because Hayley and I were so busy with other post production factors, such as stabilisation and lighting fixes, we actually forgot about foley sounds! Originally we wanted to record some ourselves to make our animation even more individualised, and I am really disappointed that we didn't do this. However we were so busy with everything else that we didn't have time. This is something that I really want to do in the future however, as I feel like even the slightest bit of background noise can really elevate your final product.

Never the less, I found some ambience sounds from the Youtube library and some from videos on Youtube itself. I didn't want a lot of background noise, just a little bit so that characters wouldn't sound like they were in a box. I wanted our family audience to really feel like these characters were outside and alive, so I tried to match their setting as much as possible!

This is what I ended up choosing. I went for trickling water ambience for the newt, a dusk ambience for the sheep and some birds tweeting outside for the bird couple. I tried to think of where they would be naturally, and matched the sounds from there. I think it sounds fine, I just wish I could have been able to take a recorder out and experienced recording our own sounds this way. Perhaps we should have done this at the pre-production stage, even though we were already falling behind with having to re-record our audio three times.

I also remembered that these sounds weren't completely royalty free/copyright free, therefore I went back and found sounds all from the Youtube Library, and a website Hayley linked to me FreeSounds.com.

I think it sounds similar to before, but because the sounds are not copyrighted, we can submit them to competitions and not worry about getting into trouble, therefore I am glad I went back in and looked for them!