PSYCHO SHOWER SCENE

For the past two weeks we have been recording sounds in order to recreate the audio for the shower scene in "Psycho". To do this we were given a little microphone to go around and replicate the sounds while recording them. We were given a cue sheet to get down the times of the different sounds and what sounds we actually needed to create.

What is Foley Sound?

Foley sound is the reproduction of sound to use in the post production. This is used to enhance the video instead of using the original sound recording of the video that may not sound as good. Foley sound can include anything from the sound of clothes rubbing against each other as you walk to the sounds of water dripping on the floor. If these kind of sounds the video footage can seem very unnatural and strange.

What is found content?

Found content is any content that is used in a video or piece of media that is not originally made from you but is found elsewhere for example downloading music from YouTube. As we did not get much recordings we had to resort to downloading some screaming sounds effects for when the woman gets stabbed in the back and tap water sounds for the sound of the shower.

Editing Process.

We were using Adobe premiere pro to edit. When editing the video I didn't apply many effect. The only effects I used was some distortion on the audio files in order to make them sound older so it fit with the whole black and white theme. This task was quite simple so when editing I didn't have any problems at all. All I needed to do was cut the audio files and organize them.

What needs to be added? 

There is still a bit of editing left to do as the video seems very quite with not enough sound in the scene. I think I just need to add a bit more ambience sound otherwise all the other sound effect that I have added will sound too sudden and unnatural. I think I need to add some more effects to the sounds for example with the steps of the woman when she's walking up to the bath I need to add some reverb so it really sounds like its all happening in that bathroom.