Production: Practicing Sound 3

John downloaded some sample tracks from free sound, which included; children laughing, music box and various other noises, which he used to work with whilst editing and selecting what was going to be put into our overall music.

This is an example of one of the sound tracks, which John downloaded from FreeSound. However he didn't use this one when composing the sample music as we, the group, managed to find a more suitable version of children laughing in the playground. The other one worked more effectively and is better for the sound.

John placed the sounds together in Premiere Pro as he couldn't open or import the music into Garageband. Although he does think this worked better as Premiere Pro enabled him to use audio effects and transitions, which he wouldn't be able to use on Garageband. For example;

These were the effects that John used, Pitch-shifter, Volume and High-Pass. All of these effects enabled him to make the girls laugh, toward the end, sound more sinister and fit better with what we are doing. He made the pitch slightly higher and distorted the sound so that it is unclear and fits the genre of Horror.

These are the tracks that he used to create the piece and they are all free from FreeSound. If he were to create another example he would use this site again as a variety of sounds are available.

Here is the example.