John 19:30

FOLEY AND FINAL TOUCHES

Foley was an experience. I think this was harder than filming. Getting the right sounds and even mixing the sounds. Everything had to match and be synced perfectly. Finding DIY options for sounds and having to get even the smallest detail. I think this was the main obstacle in producing this film opening.

This was the sequence for my Foley project. I decided to put the mute version of the film opening into a new project and work on audio there so it wasn't too much on my computer and it could run smoothly. I started with easy sounds such as bed sheets rumbling and sitting down. I think the easiest but also the hardest sound was doorknobs. I could not get my house to get completely quiet so getting those sounds was almost impossible. Luckily, my trip to Tampa helped a lot as my aunt's house in Tampa is so much quieter than my house in Weston. So I recorded most of the doorknob sounds there. I think mixing was a huge obstacle but I enjoyed getting through it. As a musician, mixing is a big part of my process. Equalizing footsteps was something I never thought I'd do, but I did it. Putting the exact reverb preset and equalizing the right frequency for some sounds, just to make them sound a little bit more realistic and for them to match the film correctly.

I was not going to add music to Joshua's section but it just felt too empty. I used an original instrumental I had made some days before filming so it would fill up that space that was missing. All music in the film opening was written, recorded, produced, and mixed by me. Wanted to keep some of that originality :)