Evaluation

Overall, I feel the quality of the finished clip justifies all the effort that was put in. At all times the sounds are in sync with the footage and the music complimentary effect. No dialogue is used throughout the scene, therefore the music does the talking the audience cannot hear. It plays a key role in the mood the audience are in as they watch the scene. The words used in the singing is not clear however, the tones of voices of the choir and the orchestra seem to put words in to the characters mouths, emphasising their emotions.

Strengths

First of all, the music creates the exact atmosphere I was trying to achieve. At first I did not want to use two separate soundtracks because I feared it would have put a ‘hiccup’ into the atmosphere I was trying to achieve and I also wanted the music to be constant throughout the whole scene. After editing the scene, I now feel that the two soundtracks are in sync with one another. They were produced by the same production company and are from the same album. Therefore, they sound very similar to each other.

Another strength is the way the sound effects have been manipulated and edited to show the powerfulness and strengths of the cyborgs. They are a huge impact from the audience’s point of view.

Weaknesses

I feel I could have worked more on the volume of some of the sound effects. And some points where the robots crash into objects, the pitch and volume is a bit too loud. When the TX crashes into the floor and her face gets damaged by the Terminator, the tone of the floor smashing is too high and the noise of her face getting mashed is not loud and clear enough. Her body is made from solid metal and as she is thrown through the floor, a denser and harder noise should have been heard because she was not crashing into glass.

Another weakness is the clip is 3 minutes long. A 5 minute clip would have been better because I could have built up more tension and fear. However, I wanted to use a clip without dialogue because I feel dialogue can sometimes ruin the atmosphere. I also wanted the music to do the talking. If dialogue was involved, I would have had to turn the volume of the music slightly down and doing that would have ruined the atmosphere I was trying to achieve.

Improvements

If I could make any improvements to the final product I would have recorded a wider range of bottles, plates, mugs, etc. to obtain a wider range of sound effects to enable me to find it easier to edit. I would make and record little test samples of the different types of materials I could smash together and then compare the sounds. I would have also edited the music clip a bit more so that it would sound a lot smoother. Apart from that everything else was fine to me.

I would make the clip 5 minutes long so that I could broaden the sense of fear and suspense.