My roles for the production of Petal Child are as follows:
Foley Artist
Sound Design
Music Composer
My group member Jack Webber has the role of chief location sound recordist and sound engineer/ mixer. In conjunction with Jacks role, I have to provide all of the music cues, on one music track in the form of a WAV, all of the atmospheric sounds for each scene on one track, and all of the Foley sound on a third track. These processes will be explained to a fuller extent on separate posts within this blog. In terms of the processes used to do this, my main equipment to perform this will be on Logic pro 9 and Pro Tools 10/11. I have decided to use logic pro 9 because it’s a software DAW I am used to and comfortable with making sounds, as well as its ability to accommodate my vast software add ons, including Native Instruments Komplete 10, as well as Native instruments Reaktor 6. These are the most useful plugins in terms of effects for the sound within the film. For example, the LSD trip scenes will be including an array of effects within these add on software’s, which will encapsulate to a greater creative extent the good and bad trips. The randomization/ mutation tool in Absynth 5 is a great place to start with the creation of these creative types of atmospheres. Jane, Hearst, the director of the film, has said to make the trip scenes “Sid”, which basically means to make them sound like music/sound I am used to creating (Experimental/ dark, strange).
My official roles consist of mainly postproduction, but I did get involved with the pre production and planning of the film as well as the recording of the dialogue on set. Also, our skills were put to the test with our other group member, Yuan Ding (Aka Shaun), who is an international student. He is an FTV student, but his role in the film is also sound, but his specialism didn’t lie in sound, so we had to talk him through each job we were doing and explain it a number of times due to the language barrier. We managed to build up a rapport with Shaun and he has begun to understand our concepts of sound through teaching and practice.