Editing

To begin with I created several mono tracks for the sounds I recorded in the sound studio, and began to play around with inserts to see if I could make them sound more fairytale like. I soon decided that I thought the effects made the clips sound tacky and I didn't like the effect of them at all.

I then imported the rest of my sounds from the Roland into my pro tools session and named all the clips appropriately so I could keep track of them throughout the edit. 

I began to layer up the sounds with my voiceover in mind, and with them building up slowing and peaking at intensity in the middle. 

With my sound piece I was aiming to keep a fairytale, sort of creepy, haunting effect going throughout, as in Grimms' fairytales especially,  fairytales were rarely all light and fluffy and usually had much darker undertones when you read the original. This is why in my piece, although the part that is read out is the beginning of the fairytale, the soundscape is actually quite creepy (well that's what I was aiming for). I wanted this to be the case as one the surface, a fairytale is a sweet story with happy endings but when you look deeper into them they are actually pretty messed up at times.

I used a recording of the opening of a book at the beginning of the piece to emphasise that it was the start of a story, and used a lot of fade in/outs through the work so that everything flowed together well.

As I suspected I did run into a few issues with wind noise in the background of some of the clips I recorded outside. I then discovered a way to use the inserts that was actually really useful to me, I used the frequency shifter to remove certain frequencies from the clips such as the wind. This made them sound so much clearer and I was really glad I changed my mind about using the effects.

I also raised the pitch of some of the clinking sounds to make them sound higher and slightly more etherial which I wanted so they matched the theme more.

I had to spend a long time correcting the sound on my piece as for some reason through my editing I had repeatedly adjusted the sound on individual clips and turned them down, so overall my piece was very quiet but there were a few sounds that seemed were relatively quiet but actually caused the sound to peak, such as clicks or snaps. I had to either take down the volume for those particular tracks or cut the sounds out. I also tried compressing the piece but I found that doing that made the whole piece sound different to what it was and so I decided that the areas that were effecting the sound I could either remove without taking anything from the overall piece or just make quieter with fade ins etc.