Final Project Evaluation

For this project Sam Jenkins, Rob Wynne and myself were contracted by Viewfinder Productions, a group of talented third year Media Production students, to record and deliver Location Sound during the shooting of the film, and also to complete the Post-Production Audio process in its entirety. We actually began speaking to the Media Production group late on in Year 2, around June time, and the project they pitched sounded really interesting, so we all agreed to work with them when Year 3 began.

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Post-Production Sound (6th – 16th Dec)

Post production work on Cognition began on 6th December. We had received an AAF from the Tom, the films editor, on Monday, and had already spent some time going through the film with him to see if he had any thoughts. We watched the film through, each making notes on possible audio to put in, and what sort of tone we wanted the film to have overall. We had already discussed who would tackle the various sections of the film: Sam would edit and mix the dialogue, Rob would record, edit and mix the foley, and I would assist in recording foley and edit and mix the SFX and Ambience. Barney Oram was composing the music, so we were confident that little would need to be done on that side of things.

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