Adding Sounds To Video

I now had a fully working animation that was running for just over 2 minutes and showed off all of the scenes that I had created. I decided that I wanted to add some sounds to the animation to create more atmosphere in some of the scenes. To do this I was going to use the Internet to find some songs and sounds and then use Adobe Soundbooth to edit them. These files could then be found by Premiere Pro and drag and dropped into place.

The first sound I had thought of was in the opening scene where the camera is behind a window as it opens. I wanted to create that realistic feel of opening up a window and then hearing the birds tweeting. To do this I searched on the Internet for sounds of Birds tweeting. I struggled to find te perfect sound from websites that offered free versions of clips. I was not happy with just settling for a sound that did not fit the scene and was unrealistic. I decided to get a number of different bird sounds and add them all into one file in Soundbooth and create what is known as a “MultiTrack”, which is basically multiple sound files being played in one go. The outcome of this was superb and I was really happy about it because in real life when you open a window there are a range of bird sounds you can hear and not just from one bird.

The second sounds I added was a very small clip to the actual killing of the Goose scene. I did not want the sounds to take the attention away from the death of the Goose so I decided to have the sound of the Goose as it was killed. Again I searched around on the Internet to find a suitable sound for this sound moment. Realistically the perfect sound would be of a Goose dieing but unfortunately there isn’t many places where you could legally get those kind of sounds. I managed to find a sound of a Goose flapping about and it sounds as if the Goose is quite distressed as it would be in this situation. I was not overly happy with this sound but due to the nature of the scene it was going to have to do.

I then struggled to think how I could add more sounds to the animation. I did not want to overload the animation because I feel that would take the interest and focus off the models and what is happening in the scene. I thought about songs that would be appropriate to different scenes because of their lyrics or titles. I decided to add a few snippets of the songs below:

Katrina And The Waves – I’m Walking On Sunshine (For when the farmer is walking out of his and towards his goose. Mainly used just to show a happy farmer in good mood)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKh0dLIuIu8

Pink Floyd – Money (For when the farmer is thinking about all of his money)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_anbEJsr6s

Jaws Theme - (To create tension before the Goose is killed)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLAYvjaGGqM

Mariah Carey – I Can’t Live If Living Is Without You (For when the farmer is distraught over the fact he has just made a stupid mistake by killing his source of income)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvumVJCCWGM


An example of one of my sounds in Soundbooth.