Full Title: Game 3001 Professional Brief 2 ) Adding SFX (Week 12) (19/12/2022)
Music to Scene and SFX)
Upon rendering my scenes in level sequencer, I realised that I could further pull realism to the piece and environment by adding some sound effects and ambience to the current environment. As such I have considered not only what would make noise, but what would draw individuals to stay focused on the importance of the piece. Such as light narrative cues. However I too knew that these effects would have to be within looping limitations and as such have attempted to either a) source looping sounds effects or take them myself or b) use Audacity/Adobe Audition to amend any discrepancies.
Fruit Cart - Wind ambiance, water drips from drain, and light music crackling vinyl jazz from the interior of the open window.
Columbos Office - Rotary phone ringing, typewriter key press, typewriter ding and motion and light Columbo backing track from music followed by “just one more thing”.
Problems and Issues with Audio)
Unfortunately it was much easier said than done to apply the audio to my scene. As I managed to find royalty free sources of audio, I had a lot more challenges in the process of exporting it back out of Unreal Engine. Level sequencer for some reason failed to export in-game audio and required me to resync and apply the tracks on the level sequencer cutscene. However after some testing with this in rendering it still failed to show up. So I had to break my process down into 2 steps, the first was rendering out the cutscenes in Level Sequencer for the visual aspect. And the second being using OBS to record the audio in game and resync it. I used Adobe Premier to resync the audio. And after some careful cuts and fine tunings it ended up coming out pretty similar to the in-game experience which I was quite pleased with. Additionally for my portfolio variant, due to copyright issues I have not included the planned vinyl track of Frank Sinatra's “Fools Rush In” for submission but will include it on my Artstation.
Bibliography:
Ceiling Fan Sound Effect | Fan sound SFX | Real sound | Copyright Free Sound (2021) YouTube. Real Sound . Available at: https://youtu.be/EBPEuzJGDDM (Accessed: December 20, 2022).
Columbo and his one more thing (2020) YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_d6_CdNEVA (Accessed: December 20, 2022).
Columbo TV Series - Background Music (2016) YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVP6onBEVRg (Accessed: December 20, 2022).
Fools Rush In (2014) YouTube. Frank Sinatra. Available at: https://youtu.be/yWJpxExs_xQ (Accessed: December 20, 2022).
ROYALTY FREE TYPEWRITER SOUND EFFECTS! ORIGINAL 1960 SMITH & CORONA TYPEWRITER SOUNDS (2017) YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZqZ1yoRPo (Accessed: December 20, 2022).
Typewriter Bell (2020) YouTube. rabinoco. Available at: https://youtu.be/XcdZmJ35shE (Accessed: December 20, 2022).
Victorian City | Ambience | 2 hours (2019) YouTube. Ambience Lab. Available at: https://youtu.be/iQWnyYAoosM (Accessed: December 20, 2022).
Old Rotary Phone Ringing ☎️ Free Sound Effect SFX (2019) YouTube. mycompasstv. Available at: https://youtu.be/p530Stpz11U (Accessed: December 20, 2022).