In my planning, I decided there was going to be a voice over in my film, spoken from Ivy's point of view. To do this, I was required to record a monologue external to the document, which could then be imported to the application once completed. I did this by recording the speech with Zoom H4-N Handheld digital recorder, then removed the memory card from the device and inserted it into the computer. The card then came up on the desktop of the computer which I then clicked onto to come to to the recording on the card. I then dragged the recording file from the card to the computer, in a folder made specially for my work. From this, I then brought up the Premiere Pro application, went to file - import - then it came up with the options which I could import. I selected the recording file which then imported it onto the document, which then meant it could be used within my film. The screenshot below shows the recording which I added to my edit in the timeline. I placed it during the car crash scene right after we saw Ivy's character about to be hit by the car. This was done to enhance the 'dramatic' genre of the film and to give a brief description to viewers what the main theme of the short film would be.
Above, I have shown a screenshot of the recordings I took for the monologue for the beginning of the film. It was important to take many variations of these speeches, to allow myself a variety of options to choose from when deciding which recording I would use. If I only took one recording but it didn't turn out right, I would only have that individual file to choose from. However, having many of the same, I was able to listen to each one and decide which one I thought sounded best. This was helping in giving me options to choose from so i wasn't suck with one recording that may not have been very good.
Background music was also an issue I had to resolve as I wanted to add this to create a more 'dramatic effect' through some of my clips, especially during the flower scene, where it was supposed to be the most sad. To do this, I decided to play something on the piano which I could record and include in my film. I did this by holding the Zoom H4-N Handheld digital recorder over the piano whilst playing. This then gave me the file which I then imported onto my work and added to the timeline in each place that I decided. Below, I have included a screenshot of the piano recording I played.
In order to make this file suitable for Premiere Pro applications, I firstly imported it to GarageBand. This allowed me to cut and edit any sounds that I didn't want, but also improve the quality and change the volume through different periods of the piece. From this, I then saved the file and imported it to my film document, which I then added to the different places I wanted it in my film. This piece of music was included in a several parts of my film. I did this to make this piece more of the theme music to the film, to maintain the 'dramatic' genre of the piece.
During the car crash scene, I was required to add a crash sound to the scene in order to make the film feel more authentic. As I couldn't use a real sound of the character being hit by the car, I had to search on the interest for sounds of car crashes. This was quite difficult, as finding an authentic sounds was fairly hard to find. However the sound I have used, is the closest effect to what I think a real crash would sound like. In order to include this sound effect once added, I needed to download it from the internet, then import it onto the Premiere Pro document. From this, I then added to it my timeline. The effect did require editing though, in order to help it flow smoothly with the film. The screenshot above shows the document in editing, where I added short fade in and out effects to help the sound flow better in the scene.
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