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Audio Visual Technology

[CT001-3-1]
UC1F1103MMT/UC1F1103MP
GROUP ASSIGNMENT

Hand-out Date: 23 September 2011 Hand-in Date: 11 January 2012

GROUP MEMBER: WONG HOE SHING (TP022592) KHOR JIA MEEI (TP024994) LECTURER: MR SHAAZIM IBHAIDULLAH DADAMEAH

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgement .................................................................................................................................. 4 Objectives of this application.................................................................................................................. 4 Target Users ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Storyboard .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Intro Scene ...................................................................................................................................... 5 Scene 1 ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Scene 2 ............................................................................................................................................ 7 Scene 3 ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Scene 4 .......................................................................................................................................... 11 SCENE 5 ......................................................................................................................................... 14 Evidence of Audio Files ......................................................................................................................... 17 Mario (intro song) ......................................................................................................................... 17 Door open/ door closed ................................................................................................................ 17 Thunder sound .............................................................................................................................. 17 Weird sound 1 ............................................................................................................................... 17 Cat meow ...................................................................................................................................... 17 Scary intro ..................................................................................................................................... 17 Man shout ..................................................................................................................................... 17 Weird sound 2 ............................................................................................................................... 18 MONSTER GREETINGS................................................................................................................... 18 Narrations ..................................................................................................................................... 18 Explanation, Justification and Description of Audio Files ..................................................................... 19 Mario (intro song) ......................................................................................................................... 19 Door open/ door closed ................................................................................................................ 20 Thunder sound .............................................................................................................................. 21 Weird sound 1 ............................................................................................................................... 21

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Cat meow ...................................................................................................................................... 22 Scary intro ..................................................................................................................................... 23 Weird sound 2 ............................................................................................................................... 23 MONSTER GREETINGS................................................................................................................... 24 Slash voice ..................................................................................................................................... 25 Narration voice ............................................................................................................................. 26 Critical comments and analysis............................................................................................................. 27 References ............................................................................................................................................ 28 Online reference ........................................................................................................................... 28 Book reference .............................................................................................................................. 28 Project Management ............................................................................................................................ 29

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Firstly, we would like to thank Mr. Chau Kien Tsong for dedicating his time in giving us help in the assignment whenever we had trouble for this assignment. He also provides guidance and minor examples of how to get the certain sound effect for certain scene. Next, we would like to thank our parents in supporting us both financially and spiritually for us to complete this assignment. Last but not least, thank Jia Meei for lending her dorm as the place for discussion.

OBJECTIVES OF THIS APPLICATION Firstly, the objective of the application is to let people view it as another part of entertainment which this application have more parts that can interact with the audience compare to normal horror movies. The second objective is to give us a chance in training ourselves for making such an application with adjusting the sound, remove the noise and more which will benefit us in the future of audio visual technology. TARGET USERS The target users of this application is for teenage and above. As the content of this video MIGHT be too violent. Therefore, it is not suitable for the kids. This application basically is just representing horror movies but with more interactions for the viewers. Therefore, beside kids, almost everyone are the target users for this application.

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STORYBOARD There are total of 8 scenes in this application including the intro and the last menu page. INTRO SCENE

First frame is the intro flash with the background music of Mario(Intro Song).wav. When mouse over the door latch, it will play the door knob_edit.wav. Audio Played Mario(Intro door Message Reinforced Open with door knob_edit.wav Song).wav made by MIDI

knob_edit.wav

After click on the button of OPEN, the door will open while playing door open.wav and Mario(Intro Song).wav will still playing. Audio Played Mario(Intro Song) MIDI ----- continue from previous door open.wav-door open sound

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SCENE 1

While the Mario(Intro Song).wav still playing, the first narration playing too until the sunset. Audio Played Mario(Intro Song) MIDI ----- continue from previous narration.wav-the storys first narration

When Smiley got back to his home, it started to rain and thundered. So the thunder.wav will play in the meantime. Audio Played thunder.wav-the thunderstorm sound

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SCENE 2

Smiley finally back to his home, when door opened the door open.wav will play. Audio Played door open.wav-door open sound

After he entered his house, the door will close with the sound of door closed.wav playing. The weird sound.wav and cat.wav comes next. Message Reinforced door weird cat.wav-weird sound closed.wav-door sound.wav-ping close sound piang

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SCENE 3

Smiley ran swiftly up the stairs while playing the UpStairsNarration.mp3 sound clip. The sound that ran upstairs has removed the noise which has spilt the video and audio after recording. After editing the audio files, only we join the movie and audio back again. Audio Played UpStairsNarration.mp3-second My Movie-up stairs movie file contain edited audio narration

Scary intro played to aware audience something frightening going to happen soon. Audio Played scary intro.wav made by MIDI

Smiley shouts for frightening and manshout.wav playing. Voice over man shout.wav-smiley scream

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While downstairs narration.mp3 is playing, it plays My Movie2 movie with edited audio which use the same method as previous scene. Audio Played downstairs narration.mp3-third narration

My Movie2-down stairs movie file contain edited audio

Smiley at downstairs and heard the weird sound (weird sound2.wav) and meantime weird SoundNarration 2.mp3 is playing. Audio Played weird sound2.wav-weird sound 2.mp3-forth from garage narration

weirdSoundNarration Voice over -

weirdSoundNarration 2.mp3-voiced over smileys speech

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Down garage narration.mp3 played. Audio Played down garage narration.mp3-fifth narration

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SCENE 4

Smiley reached the garage, when opened the door, door open.wav played. Audio Played door open.wav-garage door open

Smiley talked, and so smiley garage voice.wav played. When he switched on the light, light on.wav played. Voice over Audio Played smiley garage voice.wav-voiced over smileys speech light on.wav-switch button sound

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Scary intro.wav played again to aware audience something going to happen. Audio Played scary intro.wav made by MIDI

Monster finally appeared. Monsters greetings.mp3 played just after the scary intro.wav. Voice over Audio Played Monsters greetings.mp3-voiced over monsters speech scary intro.wav-continue from previous

Again, Smiley shouted (man shout.wav). Voice over man shout.wav-smiley scream

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While smiley runaway narration.mp3 still playing, monster taunted (monsters taunt.mp3) Smiley . Audio Played Voice over smiley Monsters runaway narration.mp3-sixth taunt narration smiley

taunt.mp3-monster

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SCENE 5

Monster chasing.mp3 played while monster still chase after Smiley into his room. Voice over Monster chasing.mp3-monster chase after and teased Smiley

Monster is about to kill Smiley and monster kill speech.mp3 played. Voice over Monster kill speech.mp3-monster talked to Smiley before he killed

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Smiley was frightened and screamed (Smiley NOOOOOO.mp3). Voice over Smiley NOOOOOO.mp3-screamed before get killed

Sound of being slashed (Slash sound.mp3) played. Audio Played slash sound.mp3-Smiley being slashed

Smiley waked up and realized it just a dream and followed by smiley wake up.mp3 playing. Voice over smiley wake up.mp3-smiley murmuring to himself

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However, the story had just begun. (monster last speech.mp3) Voice over monster last speech.mp3

In the menu, a sound clip of (Smiley introduce.mp3) will play whenever mouse over to Smiley mouth. Voice over smiley introduce.mp3-smiley introduce himself

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EVIDENCE OF AUDIO FILES

MARIO (INTRO SONG) A midi sounds file which is created by our own with the online song sheet as reference.

DOOR OPEN/ DOOR CLOSED A sound clip that is recorded by opens and closes the door, and has finished noise removal and normalize.

THUNDER SOUND Record the sound of squashing the plastic cover of TOP laundry detergent. Using the sound editing software to remove noise and amplified. BassBoost has been used too to make the voice sounds deeper. WEIRD SOUND 1 The sound from glass coffee mugs knock against one another, which want to describe the monster was upset the glasses in the garage. Noise removal and amplify effect have been used. CAT MEOW The recorded voice was a man sound which simulating the sound of cat meow. SCARY INTRO Midi sounds file as well which is created by our own, to aware the audience something bad or frightening scene is coming. MAN SHOUT Simply record the man shouting and after noise removal and amplify.

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WEIRD SOUND 2 A sound from clink of keys is simulating the sound when monster knocked the repair kit over.

MONSTER GREETINGS A man voice recording and modify into monster voice, followed by monster chasing.mp3, monster kill speech.mp3 and monster last speech.mp3 also use the same method to record and same effects editing. NARRATIONS All narrations are played in background followed with its subtitles, which use the man voice to record and modify into kids voice.

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EXPLANATION, JUSTIFICATION AND DESCR IPTION OF AUDIO FILES

MARIO (INTRO SONG) A MIDI sounds file which is created by our own with the online song sheet as reference.

Super Mario Brothers main theme are the song that weve chosen. Without following 100% of the original content, modifies had made to make the MIDI sound suitable for the assignment.

Note properties and the tempo of the music sheet are changed according to the new style. As Wong Hoe Shing has music background, he know how to modify the music sheet to a new MIDI file. The tempo and the key signature had changed, from original 120 beats/minute, change into 240 beats/minutes to make the pace of the song faster.

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The sound instrument changed into music box as it suits the story of our assignment too. It was later modify again in Audacity as the sound is not loud enough.

DOOR OPEN/ DOOR CLOSED Before editing: Description: Voice is unclear with a lot of noise. (door open.mp3) Stereo, 44100Hz, 32-bit float

After editing: Description: Editing:

Voice become clearer and not as soft as before. (door open.wav) Mono, 44100Hz, 32-bit float - Noise Removal; Noise reduction: 5db - Amplify: 3.8(db)

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THUNDER SOUND Before editing: Description: Voice is loud and over the dynamic range. (thunder.mp3) Stereo, 44100Hz, 32-bit float

After editing: Description: Editing:

Voice become softer and sounds likely thunder. (thunder.wav) Mono, 44100Hz, 32-bit float - Noise Removal; Noise reduction: 5db - Normalise: -1.0 db

WEIRD SOUND 1 Before editing: Description: Ping Plang sound. (weird sound.mp3) Stereo, 44100Hz, 32-bit float

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After editing: Description: Editing:

Voice becomes softer. (weird sound.wav) Mono, 44100Hz, 32-bit float - Noise Removal; Noise reduction: 5db - Normalise: -1.0 db

CAT MEOW Before editing: Description: (cat.mp3) Stereo, 44100Hz, 32-bit float

After editing: Description: Editing:

(cat.wav) Mono, 44100Hz, 32-bit float - Noise Removal; Noise reduction: 5db

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SCARY INTRO MIDI sounds file as well which is created by our own, to aware the audience something bad or frightening scene is coming.

This sound is made with references from many movies. When something bad is going to happened, usually sound that is similar with this are played to aware the audience. This MIDI file only used 2 different note throughout the whole song, just at the last point, a stack of many notes to indicate the scary shocked feeling. Instrument is changed into E Guitar as it brings out more of the scary intro feel. WEIRD SOUND 2 Before editing: shaking keys (weird sound2.mp3)

Description: After editing:

Stereo, 44100Hz, 32-bit float (weird sound2.wav)

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Description: Editing:

Mono, 44100Hz, 32-bit float - Noise Removal; Noise reduction: 5db - Normalise: -1.0 db

MONSTER GREETINGS Before editing: Description: (monster greetings_before.mp3) Stereo, 44100Hz, 32-bit float

After editing: Description: Editing:

(monster greetings.mp3) Mono, 44100Hz, 32-bit float - Noise Removal: Noise reduction: 5db - Amplify: 0.7db - Change pitch: Semitones: 1.82; Percent change: -10.00

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-Gverb settings:

SLASH VOICE Before editing: Description: (slash sound_before.mp3) Stereo, 44100Hz, 32-bit float

After editing: Description: Editing:

(slash sound.mp3) Mono, 44100Hz, 32-bit float - Noise Removal: Noise reduction: 5db - Amplify: 0.7db - Change pitch: Semitones: 1.70; Percent change: 10.290

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NARRATION VOICE Before editing: Description: After editing: Description: Editing: (downstairs narration_before.mp3) Stereo, 44100Hz, 32-bit float (downstairs narration.mp3) Mono, 44100Hz, 32-bit float - Noise Removal: Noise reduction: 5db - Amplify: 0.7db - Change pitch: Semitones: 3.16; Percent change: 20.001

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CRITICA L COMMENTS AND ANALY S IS Audacitry, Flash CS5 and MusicMasterWorks are software used for this whole assignment. Of course, there is much software for file conversion too. Throughout whole assignment, audacity really helps a lot in editing the sound to the one that we needed and remove what we doesnt need. Apart from that, Flash CS5 is the software that we used to develop visuals for this assignment. Not to forget, MusicMasterWorks is the MIDI editing software that we used to do things related to MIDIs. Of course, there are many problems throughout whole assignment. For example, noise removal in audacity, it is more likely, reduce the whole sounds amplitude until noise is unable to be heard, but in the meantime, the sound is also soften, and amplify is needed. After amplified, noise comes out again. Therefore, the solution for us is reduce the noise part by part. The intro sound that created by Ivan was referred to online song sheet, although its not 100% own creation, for people who have no knowledge about music is less likely to make like this. We cant really get the real thunder sound by recording during raining, so we have tried to knock something that can find in the house and get the voice which is closest matching to thunder sound and then record. Another issue was we cant really bring the laptop to record the sounds, so we tried to use handset to record. Result is amaze however, when we transferred to the pc and found that the extension were all 3ga format. We looked for the converter online but unlikely useful to us. So the other solution is change the extension to the 3gp then use 3gp converter to mp3 format. As can see, all the pre-editing sounds clips were in mp3 format and when done editing were saved in wav file. Therere 2 parts that we use video recording to represent the up and down stairs, although we recorded in the quiet place, its still some noise that can clearly heard when playing that video clips. We had to spilt out the video and audio into two parts, and done the audio editing. Followed by mute the video and then merged back the audio and the mutedvideo.

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REFERENCES

ONLINE REFERENCE 1. Unknown, nd, Super Mario Brothers: Main Theme[online], Available from: http://www.google.com.my/imgres?q=mario+music+sheet&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&bi w=1333&bih=646&tbm=isch&tbnid=V2_CaWqvk5htMM:&imgrefurl=http://www.d ocstoc.com/docs/26028410/Super-Mario-Bros-Sheet-Music-BlindfoldedPianist&docid=DWbeiV0yyslFFM&imgurl=http://img.docstoccdn.com/thumb/orig/2 6028410.png&w=1240&h=1754&ei=5lL5ToXDKoqyrAf37IzaDw&zoom=1&iact=h c&vpx=173&vpy=147&dur=1963&hovh=267&hovw=189&tx=104&ty=107&sig=11 1146231227955634916&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=98&start=0&ndsp=27&ved=1t:4 29,r:9,s:0 [Accessed 26 December 2011] 2. ATBStudios, 2007, How to make thunder sound effects[online], IndyMogul Forums, Available from: http://forum.indymogul.com/archive/index.php/t-3043.html

[Accessed 28 December 2011] 3. Unknown, 2011, The Free Voice Over Learning Video Podcast Audacity Basics 2 Envelope Editing 2[online], The Voice Over Coach, Available from:

http://www.thevoiceovercoach.com/voiceoverblog/the-free-voice-over-learningvideo-podcast-audacity-basics-2-envelope-editing-2 [Accessed 30 December 2011] 4. Finkelstien E. and Leete G., nd, Adding a Sound to a Flash CS3 Button[online], Dummies.com, Available from: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/adding-asound-to-a-flash-cs3-button.html [Accessed 1 January 2012] 5. Unknown, nd, How to remove noise with Audacity[online], podtopia.net, Available from: http://www.podtopia.net/gettingstarted/removenoise.shtml [Accessed 2 January 2012] BOOK REFERENCE 6. Chris Georgenes. (2010). How to cheat in Adobe Flash CS5. UK: Focal Press.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT AVT Group Project Peer to peer project evaluation form. Evaluate each team behavior, on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest score and 10 the highest score. Name of evaluator: Wong Hoe Shing Write each of your group members column name under the

(Member).

Do not write your own name. Name of team members ---------->: CRITERIA 1 Attended all group meetings 2 Volunteered willingly and accepted responsibility 3 Contributed ideas and showed involvement 4 Performed share fair of work 5 Demonstrated genuine interest in group project Total AVT Group Project Peer to peer project evaluation form. Evaluate each team behavior, on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest score and 10 the highest score. Name of evaluator: Khor Jia Meei Write each of your group members column name under the Khor Jia Meei

(Member).

Do not write your own name. Name of team members ---------->: CRITERIA 1 Attended all group meetings 2 Volunteered willingly and accepted responsibility 3 Contributed ideas and showed involvement 4 Performed share fair of work 5 Demonstrated genuine interest in group project Total Wong Hoe Shing

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