The task is to take a scene from ‘The Wire’ and re-do the sound for it. This includes all the foley sound; footsteps, the sound of paper being turned etc. as well as the dialogue for the two characters.
We had to record all the foley sounds necessary to re-do the sound on the scene. The challenge here was to use things found around college to create the sounds, and so this meant we had to get creative. The two most challenging things to find sounds for were the tape measure and the squeak of a pen on lamenent floor. The sounds we ended up using were a paper cutter and foil packet rustling mixed together for the tap measure, and a wet finger drawing circles on a mirror for the pen.
As we didn’t have the visuals as we were recording we tried to record each sound at a few different speeds to get the timing right.
The main challenge with recording around college was background noise interference. A lot of the time we had to stand and wait with the element we wanted to record, waiting for the area to clear of people or a next door class room to quiet down.
-Dialogue Recording-
We were given a script to the scene and I and Aaron had to voice the two characters and act out the scene. We found a room in the student center to record the dialogue in and, as with recording the sounds, had to pause if other students passed by.
We did a few takes on the lines, trying out different inflections and speeds each time to make sure that when we got to the computers we would have at least one usable take.
In the scene, the character I voiced was smoking a cigar. To try and get this sound into the characters delivery I spoke the lines with my thumb between my teeth.
PHOENIX'S MEDIA 