Research and Planning; Sound effects

Sound effects were very important to our radio drama. Quite simply it wouldn't be a drama without them. If you look at some of our sound clips, the ones without the sound effects you will notice the huge drop in tension. We put our sound effects on via soundtrack pro when we finished recording our radio drama, this was a long phase but it was hugely successful and we were very happy with the sound effects we had used. We then used Audio Hijack Pro on the MAC to download more effects from the internet so that we could choos from a wider range.

These are some clips that we used, one is without sound effects and one includes sound effects;

SUICIDE BIT WITH NO EFFECTS


SUICIDE BIT WITH ALL SOUND EFFECTS


As you can see the one with sound effects is far more effective than the one without and is much more dramatic.

We did the same here but this time in a slightly different context, this time the sound effects are used more to just create atmosphere and not make the place sound dull and empty which you should notice in the clip without sound effects;

HORT CLIP WITH FOOTSTEPS AND RAIN




SHORT CLIP WITH FOOTSTEPS