LO2: Practice examples of applying Soundtrack Tools

For this task, we were given a two-minute clip from a nature documentary about red squirrels with no audio, just visuals. We were tasked with writing our own script to read over the squirrel documentary.

Firstly we set out to find some introduction/bedding music that would fir the theme of the documentary. This music would, of course, need to be copyright free, so we used a website called Bensound (www.bensound.com). We decided to use panpipe music as we felt this fit well with the theme of nature.

Next, we wrote the script. To do this we simply reworded some facts about red squirrels we found on the internet so it would flow nicely and relate to what was being shown on screen. We then recorded this script a few times in the recording studio at the UTC until we got it right.

The final step was editing. First, we imported the documentary footage into an Adobe Premier file, then we added the music over the top of it. We then added the dialogue and matched it up with what was being shown on screen. We adjusted the volume of the bedding track at the part where the dialogue begins and faded it so both it and the dialogue could be heard clearly. Finally, we trimmed off the excess footage and exported it as a .mp4 file.