Week 10 – Sound Research and Editing

One of my tasks allocated for this project was to provide all of the sound effects used for the final animation. We decided that we wanted a mixture of sounds from the environment and sound of the engine itself.

To start with, I took a look at the environment that had been modelled for the animation and started looking for sound effects that would match the scene. I used the sound of water rippling, a water wheel turning and some general ambience sounds of birds, wind and trees to create the sound effects required for this part of the video. For the engine itself, I used audio of the actual machine running from the video that I took at the Museum of Power when we visited a couple of weeks ago. I also added this to the beginning environment scene and mixed it quietly with the rest of the audio to make it sound muffled as it was inside the dredger on the lake.