First of all I just started with the basic and created a waveform thinking id start with a basic noise. This was harder then I thought, I wanted the small and spaced out sound waves of the low frequency notes but the pitch of a higher one. I attempted to slow down a higher pitch tone, this didn't work, I tried changing the pitch of a low frequency tone but this also didn't give me the humming I wanted.
I thought I would move onto actual recording. I was going through the sound library trying to think of sounds that I could manipulate into the humming that I want. I came across a recording of a truck engine that had a rhythmic hum to it so decided this was a good starting point. So got the sound into Soundtrack Pro and started playing around with effects. I kept altering the Pitch of it, time stretching it to change the rhythm of it. I also applied EQ to it to cut out the higher and lower sounds trying to get the right sound. This was better then the waveform idea but still not what I wanted
Carrying on searching through sound for inspiration i thought about an actual hum from a fly or bug. Got a recording of a fly of the library to experiment with but like before everything i tried just didnt give me what I wanted and could picture in my head. I then went on to recording of a hover. This turned out to be the best so far. Like I had on the truck engine I altered the speed to slow it down a little, EQ to roll of the high and low tones and then played around with the Pitch. This seem to work the best so far. when listening to it a couple times I couldn't stop concentrating on the other noise still in the original hoover recording that I felt I was getting close but no where clear enough to use it.
Giving up on recordings I turned musical and went on Garage Band. Just opened a basic piano and played one single note gradually in creasing and decreasing the tempo. Imported this into Soundtrack Pro and adding the effect I tried in the previous sounds I found that this is what I wanted. I went through the clip changing the tempo of the notes so that when the Eye moves faster the tempo increase and then slows down when the eye does. I Then thought that not only change tempo but I was going to change the pitch of the note in relation to the speed of the eye. I felt that I would best do this with the use of creating points on the timeline and dragging to certain pitch changes as this way I could be accurate with when exactly I wanted it to change.
Like in my plan I played around with the use of pan and volume along with the tempo in order to try and create more dimension to the piece. I started with the volume and going through in creasing the level at times when the eye came closer to the camera and quieter when it moves away, as well as being quite when the camera focuses on the People. Following that i did a similar process with the panning, when the eye was left of scene I would make sure it was panned left and when right of screne it was paned to the right etc.
I thought my next step was to start adding in all the layers of the people. I thought I would just attacked in in order of how it happens on screen. so the first main actions of the people was Tom Cruise when he crawls back behind the arm of the sofa so used the recording of bare feet walking and added a slight echo to it which I think made it seem like the wood creaking slightly underneath him.
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