Final lesson before revealing our production! The actual showing was is later today. As I said in the last post, I was going to find the last SFX for homework; and I did! I spent 2 ½ hours looking for the perfect SFX of roller blades. I searched through 30 websites before I found it. It was on the 16th or 17th page on Google search results. But man did I strike gold. I found the best SFX gallery ever. It has so many SFX for the simplest sound. I searched “roller blades” and received 38 pages of effects that all would have worked. This website was a miracle. I mean you could search for “jail door” and get over 400 different results all in super high quality. The website is: www.sounddogs.com. When I found the right effect I just copied it to my desktop and open it with Audacity. From there I amplified the sound and cleared some of the back ground sounds. I ended up with a top notch SFX.
During the lesson I received some help from Mr. Sarstedt setting up the speakers and cables. I then ran through some volume tests. Then I used a helpful SFX cue program. You import the sounds in any order you wish and it plays them in order just by a simple press of a button. It was a great help as I used to open various windows in iTunes with separate SFX. That was a mess, but now I’m organized.
After importing my SFX and running some more volume tests I joined the rehearsal that was running. My cues were perfectly timed. It was a relief. Finally after several weeks of preparation I was able to run my first sound rehearsal. I had a created a cue sheet earlier and the program was working like a charm. However I rather annoyed to here from the directors that some of the sounds weren’t quite what they wanted. If they had kept closer contact with me, they could have told me that earlier. Now I had to find new sounds, and even delete some completely. My cue sheet originally consisted of 9 complete SFX. After a quick rehearsal the directors told me to cut out four SFX, leaving me with only 5 SFX. I also had to change the organ grinder tune to something more somber. But hey, that’s what happens when the directors only focus on the acting.
After school we all decided to meet up again to run through it all once more. It was an unorthodox run through with so many stops to discuss the scene that it made the tech crew crazy. Every scene one of the actors stopped to review his/ her lines or discuss a possible improvement. That’s not the point of a run through. The discussion is left for after the rehearsal. Seb and I were very nervous about the showing as it all looked very messed up during rehearsal and we were missing one of our actors. We hoped for the best and feared the worst.
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