Sound - Narration and Foley

After finishing all of the painting animation and almost all of the post production, we started to work on the sound. We managed to get Barry Purves to be our narrator. We had a very fun experience and managed to get really good narration voice clips for our film. I felt that his voice really fitted with the film as it helped to give the slave the personality that we first envisioned in the script.

After doing the narration, I was also in charge of the foley for the film. Fortunately, most of the foley that we needed for our film wasn’t anything necessarily challenging. Things such money, glass clinking, metal scratching I managed to do home. I also managed to do the crowd sounds from the Benzie cafeteria and when put together with the film they managed to work really well together with the rest of the sound. The sounds turned out to be quite clear and unique rather than generic if we were to use foley from online sources. I had fun doing the footsteps for example, as different shoes on different surfaces can sound quite dissimilar from each other. It was also interesting to find out how specific sounds can be used figuratively rather than literally where we decided to use popcorn squishing as one of the footstep sounds that worked better than the actual footsteps I recorded initially.