This LO was chosen as I wanted to recreate a world with sound. The further into the project I got the more I found that this didn’t actually happen. Most of my research was related to games and not towards film. Most of the post-production side of the movie seemed more about removing reverb and creating an easy to watch piece.

As the reverb on location was so prominent, we had to reduce it as much as possible during filming. This was so we had clean, and usable takes that we could then add effects too.

When it came to treating foley effects, it was important to help keep a sense of space.

Some techniques spoken about earlier also helped with adding space during the foley recording process.

Adding reverb was an essential part of post production as it helped the scene come alive.

I did some research on reverb and looked into different uses for it.

http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/use-reverb-pro-1

Sound on Sound has an article which talks a lot about using reverb. The article is tailored towards using reverb in a musical environment, but some of the principles still applied to Foley.

The section talking about presets was exceptionally useful as it helped us narrow in on what we were after a lot faster.

Designing Sound had a piece by Michael Theiler who works for Kpow Audio.

http://designingsound.org/2012/12/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/

This is incredibly detailed and explains so much about the process of adding reverb and using EQ.

Theiler talks about the use of frequencies and how if your background is too thick the listener will zone out from important aspects.

Both articles were very informative and useful

Once all the sections were finished, we brought them all together into one session to begin the final mix.

We started by listening to everything at the same level to get an idea of what needed adjusting. After tweaking the levels, we were both happy with the overall sound.

We used a limiter and a multiband compressor in an effort the bring the level of everything to EBU R128.

After this, we ran the piece through iZotopes Insight plugin to check it.

We then sent the track to the media team for their approval.

The music for the film was undecided for a significant amount. We were told initially that we were not doing it, but were then told we were.

The primary musical sequences of the film were chosen by the media group. We tried to persuade them in the choice of some more appropriate audio, but they decided against it.

Joe composed the other sections of music in the film, and we both decided how they would fit in. The music was inspired by the popular TV series BlackMirror. The show’s themes follow a similar idea of the film, and we felt this would work well.

The music is intended to create an uneasy feeling in sections that help to create the overall feel of the film. As we were not given any musical direction, we decided to go about it independently.

We attempted to give the off-screen character “Basin” a theme by repeating a piece of music whenever his name is mentioned.

Even tho the music is simplistic, mainly due to timing issues, we still feel it came out well and fits the theme of the film.

We added music to a radio to help build room atmosphere during the dinner scene.

The music used was the Pink Floyd show performed by Lincoln College which was mixed and mastered by us. We added this as it was similar to the kinds of things played on the radio.

Overall we were happy with all the musical aspects of the film.

As the film doesn’t feature too many locations creating the atmos was something we wanted to do carefully.

We wanted to try and create a larger scene using sound.

Firstly we decided against using the Atmos we had recorded on set. This was due to the zoom preamps being too loud and the recordings just sounding like static with no characteristic.

We used Freesound to get a series of different ambience recordings and merging them together to create each section of Atmos.

By layering the sounds, we were able to add more texture to a scene. This is most apparent in the bathroom scene where we added a clock. This was done to enhance some of the silence to help create an awkward atmosphere. We also used this in the flashback dinner scene. Birds were added to create a more cheerful setting and to help build on the fact that this was a different scene. Finally, we added rain to the end of the film to help create a mood.

Overall I was triumphal with how the Atmos track came out. I personally would have preferred if the shots had more characteristics to them that we could have used to enhance the Atmos. For example, in the dinner scene, a fire would have given a nice undertone to the room. This would have improved the quality of the soundscape a lot in my opinion.