When choosing the audio for my scene I had to decide what the best methods. It was important to consider what would be appropriate for my scene and what would be feasible to get. I came to the conclusion that using dialogue from the Star Wars Episode 5: Empire Strikes Back DVD and royalty free sound effects such as explosions from the internet would work best.
I also used William's 'Battle of Hoth Medley' (Williams, 1980) as this piece is used in the same film scene. I chose a 30 second section to match my sequence which uses the motifs of the main theme and Luke's theme 'Binary Sunset' as I feel this matches the heroic feel and context of my scene.
As show below the music track runs the whole 30 seconds and is the first green bar. I changed the volume property on this so the dialogue stood out over it. I also added a fade out at the end. This dealt with the issue of the clip suddenly stopping as it was taken from the middle of a medley. The second line of light green sections is the dialogue from the DVD (Lucas, 1980). Lastly, I used Soundsnap.com for realistic sound effects of explosions, blaster shots and a drilling noise for R2D2 (Soundsnap, 2015).
- Adds to the animation by giving context to the sequence or highlighting certain important events
- Music helps to invoke a certain mood, which in this case is one of heroism and the underdog winning
- Sound effects from Soundsnap have no interference or background noise behind them
- Duration of clip is adjustable in Premier Pro - this came in useful for the two blaster bolts
Improvements:
- Dialogue audio clips has music from film playing behind them
- Timing is not as smooth as it could be as the sequence uses different parts of the Battle of Hoth sequence and hence does not allow for getting one solid 30 second clip
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