Work Shop Adding Diegetic music.

For this task we were to add diegetic music into a one minute clip from a film of television programme. Ideally the diegetic music that was chosen was music that came from a radio of a television or otherwise in the scene.

There were a number of scenes that came to mind when this topic was introduced, but my original choice was a clip from the famous television series The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The clip involved actor and protagonist Will Smith mouthing the lyrics to Jennifer Holliday's "And I am Telling You." to his uncle and guardian Phillip Banks. The scene was approximately one minute and forty seconds long and the music that accompanied him was introduced via a stereo system in the scene.

After choosing this video, David converted it so that it was available for me to edit and I downloaded the original song from youtube and converted it to an Mp3 format so that it too could be edited.

I used the application reaper in order to edit the audio. I have experience using this application as it was what we used in order to edit dialogue used in off scene phone call conversations. Before editing the sound my intention was to cut down the length of the song to match the scene, but it would have it that the song in the actual clip had already been edited alternating to the original song and finding the correct placement of the various parts of the song was difficult, so I opted to try another video. The video which a choose was a scene from the famous comedy film Napoleon Dynamite. The scene contained Napoleon and some females from his class signing the lyrics of a song which was played over the radio. 

This scene took place in a classroom, from previous dubbing workshops on thing I learnt is that no room has absolute silence. Even in a silent classroom there will be some background ambience. Even though it was not part of the assignment i took it upon my self to add sound effect to the scene, after i muted all the original sound as part of the assignment. I downloaded a two minute ambience sound effect. This was ideal because i could shorten it to match the length of the clip which was approximately one minute long. The sound effect which followed was the button click of a portable radio of which and finally a male sighing. All these sound effect i downloaded where edited to match the clip via premiere which is ideal for editing sound effects to match a video clip because you can view the clip at the same time. After matching the sound effects to the clip, I downloaded the song used in the film and edited it via reaper so that it sounded that it came from a radio. I put all the footage together via premiere.