Summarize the regrets in this assignment
Recording stage. When setting up the equipment before filming, I missed a very important element, the internal gain of the machine. It was only after the scene where the actor smashes the door that I realised that the internal gain of the machine was set too high. Because I had put the input at the lowest possible level for that scene, but the recorded sound still damaged. After checking the problem and adjusting it, we reshoot this scene. Because we were in a hurry, we didn’t have extra time to reshoot the shots we had already shot. Actually, I can hear one or two of the sounds are not of good quality in the production, although I have treated them accordingly. It is still unavoidable, because they were already damaged during the recording. Damage during the recording is irreversible, so I have to be a bit more careful when recording afterwards.
Post-production stage. There were a few sounds that I wasn’t entirely happy with, but there wasn’t much more time to change them. As I mentioned before, the blurred sound on the call is a bit different from what I wanted at the beginning. The printer’s voice would have felt better if it had incorporated the dialogue of the victims. The sound of the highest point of the film could have been richer, such as Mike’s laughter and the sound of the paper on the floor. Before the ghost slowly walks towards Mike and Mike enters the memory. I can add a slowly louder tinnitus sound and then enter the memory. In fact, after thinking about it for a while, I think the director’s idea at the beginning was a good one. After all, it is a memory, and what is in the memory is not really realistic. The ambient part and Mike’s dialogue had been handled in an unrealistic way, and then the victim’s side had no sound, only the sound of running feet and the sound of the car crash. I don’t know if this will come out better than it does now, as I haven’t tried it yet.
Mixing stage. I rented the university’s Composition Studio. Since it was my first time using the university’s studio, I was not familiar with it. So I spent most of the time waiting for it to be uploaded and downloaded, and eventually opened the project and found that the studio’s Protools didn’t have some Plug-ins. And then, I exported the split tracks on my own computer and uploaded them again. By the time I started mixing, I didn’t have much time left. So I only went through the film once in the final mix. I ended up with two project files.
