Learning Journal (WEEK 3 - CIU330)

Coroda project for this week. At the last weekly meeting, the animators asking us how we were going with the foleys? Voodoo and I had sent them some sound samples to review and a demo of the composition. However, I knew that this week’s meeting, B&W Audio really needed to have some progress done on the foleys. The meeting was scheduled for late afternoon, so I had time in the morning to get the foleys prepared, recorded, and ready for our general late arvo Monday meeting (29 June 2020). I filled the bathtub half full with water, set up a small mobile recording studio in the bathroom, and was ready to action some sound checks.

I’ve been saving some empty cokes cans, an empty shampoo plastic bottle, and the squeaky plastic part from a puppy toy (that has been chewed out of its toy by my puppy Rockit). I will use anything to create a foley sound, and nothing is off-limits. (I created some Foley sounds, so I could have some show and tell for the weekly meeting.)

I named all the foleys in the ‘track name ‘section before I recorded the sounds, as I went along. I placed the foleys into the share G drive folder in the mid arvo so it gave the animation team time to check the foleys out. The animators (Samara & Daniel) thanked me for naming each foley file, as they don’t really have to work them out.

Some pic’s below

B&W Funk Bros

Voodoo’s (Phil) has laid down all the drums and we are preparing them so when l download the files from the G drive shared folder, I won't have any problems with the midi and audio files.

After Voodoo and I had our progress meeting with our lecturer Guy Cooper, we organized a Zoom meeting so we could get all the drum tracks ready. We first named and dated the files in the track name, and then we rendered them all to the same timeline length value. The length of course varied from song to song, it all depended on each song’s timeline length.

I’m watching Voodoo like a hawk to make sure we don’t make any mistakes.

Once I have downloaded all the songs, I will start uploading the files into the songs asap. I wanted to separate the midi file into separate note values so we could have more choices on how we wanted the drums to sound on the EP –“ Funk-a-fyed”. Mixing the drum tracks audio files with midi files will be a great experiment and since this will be my first time, I can wait to give it ago.

I’m trying out different mixing combinations of snare audio and midi sounds, so I can present them to Voodoo.

This week all the bass guitar work has to be done and I think Voodoo is getting stuck into the keys and synth parts.