Holy Foley It's Tracking

The Foley in Post Pro:

To begin the foley we set out the sounds we would need in order to create the ambience we were looking for.

-Footsteps -Rain -Thunder

Starting with the rain we recorded the subtle noise of an aluminium chain, stretching the wave in order to pitch it down and make it slower. This was a good base to start with but we needed more of a white noise effect. There was some old tape laying around that sounded great when lightly ruffled. Layering these two sounds and adding a lot of reverb gave us our rain sound. But this sound alone sounded a bit too static-y and not wet enough, so we took the H4n Zoom recorder down to the shower in the cafeteria and carefully recorded a few drips to add in.

The footsteps were initially recorded in the post pro room but we realised that the hollow wooden floor gave too much bass and didn't sound like a train station. We took a Zoom H4n recorder down to the concrete floors of the loading dock and closely followed some louder higher pitched footsteps. We then added a similar amount of reverb to the footsteps.

For the thunder we were a little bit stumped, but my research suggested rolling things across a floor and adding a lowpass filter. We didn't have anything heavy enough to roll across the floor so that it would make significant bass noise, so we tried the drawer that is on rollers in the post pro room instead. The drawer was then given a low pass filter at about 100-150Hz and a small amount of reverb.

Teamwork: The ability to work in a team is very important in a work environment for the completion of greater goals than a single person can achieve. Blake and I work well in a team because our skills complement each others. The best way to achieve effective teamwork in my opinion is to create an atmosphere of acceptance and equal opportunity, through positive attitude. While working with Blake through this trimester I learned the levels of his skills and was able to set tasks in regards to our individual skillset.

His practical skills with protools balance well with my input and direction, if there was something I thought we should try then he knew how and was willing to do it. As a team we bounced ideas off each other creating a plan of attack and acted upon it. We regularly hold conversations about future events and if we're on schedule, this helps us communicate better as a team and helps develop working relationships in the future. Blake and I both split the sounds 50-50 in the plan and we kept to that for the most part, though some of the sounds were done together for the experience involved. Blake and I both kept well up to date with all the workload, the plan was followed correctly and we delivered all the sounds on time for the beta testing.