The Legend of Aramelle – Episode 12 Sound Effects

As someone interested in sound recording in general, I thought it would be a good idea to combine the credits I have to include for the sound effects in each episode with information of why I chose them, plus how I edited them.

Of course it would be in the final episode of the series that I had the most trouble with the audio! It seems that one microphone wasn’t working correctly so two actors lines were extremely quiet. I had to isolate their audio and edit them on their own track to make it audible. I’ve edited it as best I could, and it works pretty well, it just has the unfortunate side effect that there’s some background interference audible in their lines, as a result of it being heightened. It sounds a little bit like wind though, so as they’re all outside or on mountains, if you use your imagination it’s not so bad!
Plus, I wanted to make sure it was audible as some of the lines lost were important to the future plot!

Here is the full list of sound effects including where I got them from, plus what the original script called for.

Mixed Sound Effects:
Walking through prison corridors: Witch Princess Gamelan Melody mixed with Water dripping in cave freesound and Cowboy boots walking (Adobe)

Adobe Sound Effects used:
Liquid Water River flowing water – River
Coin Flip and Catch Ringing Spin – Jewel
Foley Cinder Block Sand Scrapes – Cave moves position
Liquid Water Water Ballon Dropped in Water – Spoon dropped in cauldron
Foley Coin Moving in Hand – King Gideon gets money out
Ambience Ocean Shore – Ship in bay by Isle of the Sirens

BBC Sound Effects used:
Ship creaking: Thames Sailing Barge, Atmosphere Below Deck Under Sail, With Creaking Wood. (Recorded On Board S.B. Pudge.) (Bought)
Doors Prison Cell – Prison Door Cell, opened and shut (Bought) – Door to Prison opened and closed
Boats Rowboats Punting – Needed a noise of driftwood to show what Barry is floating down the river on. (Bought)

Pro sound effects used:
Whistler Mountain Canada Light Buffeting Wind – mountain ambience (Bought)
Sparkles Glistening Metallic Swells – Sound of jewel map being projected. (Bought)
Sucky Woosh – Noise for the ghosts method of travel and appearance – more will be revealed how this works in series 2! (Bought)

Cast for:
Ship onto Table out of pocket – Aramelle takes jewel out of pocket
Crew Cheering
Crew executing orders
The “Woo” that Orson says was supposed to be another round of the crew cheering, but realised in editing that as they’ve just gone off to execute their orders, it didn’t make sense, but Orson was still there, so he could cheer for Aramelle all by himself.

Music by Jean Loup-Pinson:
The Village Krumhorn
Grim Reaper theme

Freesound for:
Cauldron bubbling – Water Bubbling – Same as last episode. water bubbling by ultraaxvii — https://freesound.org/s/591151/ — License: Creative Commons 0