Music and Sound Engineering
Kieran Gill
The impact of Music and Sound in Film, T.V. and Animation
For my capstone project I procured an animated clip provided by the animation department in the college. I then created three different versions of this clip. Each version has a different soundtrack and different sound effects that coincide with a specific genre of film e.g. horror, comedy, Action.
The goal I had throughout the process of doing my capstone was to show how much of an impact that sound effects and music have in the making of film and animation in the industry today in the way that with a change in the sound and music used it can completely warp the persons view of a scene when watching it. For example, a comedy scene when altering those two principles could make a funny positive scene into a dark horror scene.
Using the studio in the college and the zoom microphone provided by my lecturer I was able to gather all the sound effects needed and recorded the dialogue for the characters as-well. The software I used to combine the sounds and dialogue to the video was ProTools. I also used the synths and built in instrument plugins in ProTools to create my soundtracks for each of the three versions. I also used this software to mix my three clips.