Soundtrack - Worksheet #3 √

1.
When devising a soundtrack you will be working with the director who will tell you how he wants the track to sound. You will be also working with the Video editor, sound mixer, composer, Music Editor, Re-Recording Mixer, Music Supervisor. 

Picture lock is a stage in editing a film. It is the stage prior to on-line editing when all changes to the film or television program cut have been done and approved. It is then sent to subsequent stages in the process, such as online editing and audio mixing. Any last minute changes can force portions of subsequent work to be re-done.

2.
I will be getting my sound effects from - http://freesound.org. I will be getting my backing track from - http://incompetech.com

3.
There is a lot of different softwares to use to make your soundtrack like; Soundtrack Pro, Garage Band, Logic Pro… but, the software which i'm going to be using to make my soundtrack with "Soundtrack Pro" because it's a really good bit of software and it's easy to use when you know what you're doing.

In my single camera drama I plan to book out the following;

Blue Yeti Pro Microphone,

Rode Boom pole,

Rode Microphone,

64GB SD cards,

Canon Battery Charger,

Canon EOS 600D Built In Microphone,

AUX Jack to XLR Cable

On the day of shooting i plan on recording some ambience sounds to put over my Single Camera Drama to give it a realism feel.

The music / sound effects I used in my Single Camera Drama are sourced from "Pro Sounds" and incompetech.com. 

I will be needing the following;

Gun Shots,

Blood Sounds,

Punch Sounds,

Hospital Sound Effects,

Voice Overs.

Some sound information from my Location report.

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WAV (Waveform Audio File Format)

Filename Extension: .wav
Format Type: Uncompressed

WAV files are popular because they are considered a “first generation” format. That is, they are generally kept as the first digital copy of a file completely uncompressed. This means that WAV files are the best quality and have not gone through any digital alterations except to be outputted.

The bad side of using this type of compression is that it is a large file size. If you download a song from a Free Stock Music website, you’ll notice the WAV files are a lot larger files than the MP3 files.

WAV files is a good format to have, however, because they allow the most flexibility. They are ideal for making copies of songs from because of their “first generation” status.

AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)

Filename Extension: .aif or .aiff
Format Type: Uncompressed

In terms of file size and quality, AIFF and WAV formats are fairly interchangeable. The AIFF format results in an uncompressed PCM (pulse-code modulation) file meaning it still has relatively large file sizes, but maintains a higher quality of sound.

If you look at a free stock music website the AIFF files and WAV files have similar file sizes as WAV also uses PCM.

AIFF files are the Apple/Macintosh equivalent of WAV files, though both Windows PCs and Apple Macs will recognise either format.

MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)

Filename Extension: .mp3
Format Type: Lossy Compressed

MP3 does not have nearly the same amount of quality as WAV or AIFF files formats but, for some people the MP3 format is just easier to use for people with not a lot of disk space on their computer, also If you have a slower internet connection, MP3 could be your file format of choice.

Well, the MP3 format uses compression which actually removes data from a song using complicated algorithms. The reason for removing this data is to save space and make the file smaller.

If you’re worried about quality loss, don’t fret too much about it. While, yes, there is a noticeable drop off in sound quality, MP3 files fall square under the “good enough” umbrella.

4.
Definitions of the boundaries of the public domain in relation to copyright, or intellectual property more generally, regard the public domain as a negative space, that is, it consists of works that are no longer in copyright term or were never protected by copyright law.

Downloading music from the internet (YouTube) is bad because the music maybe copied righted and mainly it is also illegal. Music Licensing  is the licensed use of copyrighted music. Music licensing is intended to ensure that the owners of copyrights on musical works are compensated for certain uses of their work. A purchaser has limited rights to use and reproduce the recorded work without a separately arranged agreement.