Production of 30second Piece

I set up a new project as Joe showed us in our sound tutorials with him a few weeks ago.

I imported the files to the project manager on the side one piece at a time. I started off with the ambience of the place outside, so i imported my desert sounds which i put on a really low volume, i then started layering up the desert sounds with other noises like cars and horses in the background trotting and maybe a neigh, some birds and other noises that could be heard.

With the car coming up to the front of the hotel, i wanted to make it seem like it started far away, went past the audience and then want on part, this means that i had to manipulate the sound of the clip to suit my needs - i had to change the blending of the layer by changing the gradient of the sound lines, and i also added some 'key frames' so i could change where the sound gets louder and when i want to make is quieter. Its actually really clever, and i am so glad that i made Joe's lesson or i would have had no clue.

This image is a print screen of the two tracks that i explained about - you can see the left and right ear sounds for the ambience and then some birds chirping. On 'Track 3' you can see a line which is all over the place, that line demonstrated how loud i want the track, and it varies as you can see. These ambience tracks will mainly be on through out the whole clip - this is because they are on so low and also because when the character is quiet in his room he would still be able to hear the outside ambience - although the birds probably wouldn't be chirping.

TECHNICAL ISSUES..... Adobe Audition kept shutting down which was really frustrating - it wouldn't save my work, nor would it stay open for a long duration. So i had to do this process 4 times, however, it probably did me some good because i got to slightly amend it every time, getting me used to the process and also to opening new projects.