This week I decided to continue work on the Foley design. As I said before the Foley will be spilt into about three different weeks. This may seem disorganised, however with Rhys adding extra layers to the games design every week it means that more Foley has to be added. For this reason the Foley has been split into three parts, with the possibility of being four.

The first Foley recording this week was an air vent. The operating theatre has a vent going along the ceiling, I thought to give to room a eerie feel and as wind is blowing in from the broken window it would be good to record the air vent squeaking to make the user feel like ether there could be something in side it or adding to the creepy atmosphere. To record this I decided that the real thing would sound the best. Using props that the university provides for Film & Television recording I decided to take an Air Vent ( see picture below ) Into a quiet room and record it using a Zoom portable recorder and two Rhode NT 5 match paired microphones to record in stereo. The first problem I had was finding a room quite enough as the vent was to big to get to the Sound Theatre. I managed with the help of Rhys to find a small room at the back of the media building in which the recording was done.

Air Vent Recording

Small elements of realism like recording an actual metal air vent can help to improve a sound design. Many people may think that it wasn’t worth the effort of finding this object, however I believe that adding extra elements of realism increases the quality of the overall sound design.

Below you can hear a sound for a falling ceiling panel.

To add an extra effect to the ceiling panel falling I decided to capture the wind that was caused when the panel fell. I first came across the technique in the Paranormal Activity films. I haven’t include these films in my research as their reason for using it is quite different to mine, however I feel it was important for me to explain were I got the idea from. When I first recorded the panel recording at home using a Zoom recorder I was intending on getting the wind noise however after a few attempts without the noise and with I decided it was better to keep it in.