Today I wrote a script for the voice over I intended to do for the opening scene of the film. I needed to make sure it sounded as realistic as possible to a police helicopter radio. I looked up many effects on Google and downloaded a few and none really worked with the recording. I went onto YouTube and researched different police helicopter chase videos and copied some of the linguistic terms they used to tructure my own script. Luckily, I was obessesed with the police a few years ago so I had picked up some basic language that they use so this benefitted me as I already an an idea of what langauage to use.
As a result I thought that I could use my recording equipment to record with a fan next to me while I speak and this would give the helicopter cockpit effect. This worked very well and it sounded very realistic. I then started to record myself as the helicopter pilot and I then used my brother as the officer on the ground. We recorded myself speaking as the pilot and then my brother as ground units and then back to me before we lost the target. This then ties in well with the second scene where our actress is sitting by a river after losing the police.
As I recorded the voice over using my music software called Pro Sound on my desktop, it saved as a PTF format and I could not convert it to any other format. This meant that it was not being recognised on the Apple laptop I have at home so I was pretty sure it would also be unreadable at school on the Apple's.
As a result I decided that the best thing to do would be to put my desktop speakers next to me Apple microphone and then record the sound from the computer to the laptop. This worked very well and the sound sounded even more realistic.
I used garage band to record this straight through the speakers and then I saved the file as an MP3 and put it on ITunes and then transferred it onto a memory stick so it is ready to be taken into school.
At first I did plan on using a walkie talkie and placing one walkie talkie next to the microphone and then talking through the other one from another room. I felt this would be a good effect and would give that slight fuzz after speaking. This proved to be a problem as the walkie talkies needed batteries which I didn't have.
I then tried to use sweet wrappers to create that fuzzy sound but this did not prove effective.
Finally I decided to use my own voice to make this fuzz sound and it proved to be the most effective out of the 3 ideas I had.
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