Sound design- Foley

As our protagonist is running throughout most of our film, we needed to record foley in order to make it actually sound like she is running through leaves and sticks.

To record this we went to our schools recording studio and gathered a tray full of sticks, leaves and a plastic bag as this created the most effective running through a forest sound.

To record the audio we used cubase, we plugged our mic lead into the recording desk and connected the desk to our software, boosting the gain slightly to pick up more of the sound.

The mic we used was an AKG C1000S condenser microphone, we used a condenser as we wanted to obtain the clearest and most controlled sound possible from the materials we were using.

We placed the tray on the work surface and pointed the mic into the tray about 30 cm away from the materials we tested making the footstep sounds with our hands in the tray as we felt this was easier to control than actually running.

To sync up our foley perfectly with the actual footage, we played the video and recorded simultaneously, after two attempts we got the perfect recording. After recording, we listened back and realised that the bass tones in our recording were very very muffled, giving the recording a manufactured and unnatural sound. To remedy this we looked at the EQ of our recording and we took down the bass tones slightly and boosted the middle tones slightly, this fixed our issue and made our recording sound a lot more natural.

 We then exported our recording into a stereo file and place it over our video and it fitted perfectly.