recording the folley sound

This consisted of two different parts. I carried out most of the Foley sound recording at my house in Germany, where I had access to recording equipment. Below I have a video of me in the recording stages of the footsteps etc. and the overall set-up. I achieved the nice crisp recording by using a shot gun mic and getting the recording level and gain balanced, to reduce as much white noise as possible. Within the set up I used a 16 channel recording mixer. to create footstep's outside the car, on the gravel, I used a plastic plate which I filled with some stones and gravel (from my garden) and using my foot I timed my feet (heal toe action) to the footage, which i had playing on my laptop.

to create the movement of clothing I used two towels in each hand, creating a rubbing sound effect. I also timed this to the footage. Additionally, I recorded the car door handle opening and closing with my fathers car out side the house. This required several takes due to the outside noises. I also recorded the Foley of rowan crying and breathing. This I did by essentially crying and breathing into the microphone. The other parts I recorded was the falling of the gun which I did by dropping a book (on its corner to add the two touches with the ground). I recorded the inside of the car Foley by setting up the microphone inside  my dad's car and having me sit inside the car and moving my hand on the wheel, whilst watching the footage. This recording included the clicking of the stereo button. The final recording of the zombie scream was my voice layered over 8 tracks. I recorded this with 8 different screams which I produced. these created a nice layering sound.

In the second recording session, I asked my acting friend, Hannah to do some voice acting, which I carried out at school (in the library). This set up was with the school's shot gun mic, which I plugged directly into a 'audio in' in a mac computer. On the computer I used logic express pro, enabling my to record the audio. The first recording which I carried out was the zombie scream. What I had at that point was my layered deep male scream. I wanted to add the female part to this scream, which I achieved through Hannah's screaming. I also layered her scream's in logic pro, thus resulting in a wide vocal range scream, as one would have expected from a lung filled with blood scream. following this I recorded some breathing and groaning, from the flash back scene.