Fiction Adaptation Unit: Post-Production - Edit part 4: Audio

Once the visual was sorted I focussed on the audio. I overlaid the reading of the script over the visual to get a more consistent sound and discovered that Adam read the script in almost the exact same pace as he did when we filmed the individual so overlaying and aligning the audio so it was in-sync with his lip movements was relatively straightforward.

An issue I encountered was with the gaps in-between these audio overlays: you can hear static during the audio segments and then suddenly the sound is gone as the gap appears. This is quite noticeable and I didn't want it so I got a small clip in-between Adam speaking which contained just static and filled the gaps:

The clips in red are Adam's voice-over the ones in blue are the static clips to fill the gaps. I chose to keep the static going on throughout the whole length of the film to maintain continuity.

I ramped the volume up from 0Db to 6Db to make it easier to hear and then added some foley that I made on the second day of the shoot. The foley consisted of moving my shoes across the floor to simulate footsteps and recording me tapping a button on my Mac for the final scene.

The scene in which Mark lifts his shirt to reveal a bloody bandage also has foley sound, I first searched online to find a sound similar but to no avail so I instead played the clip and recorded myself mimicking Marks' actions to get a very similar sound which I then added into the timeline.

With the audio finished and after a whole week the edit is finished.