.: popeye's chicken commercial

The Assignment: Take a commercial, erase all sound, and replace it with original sound created by the student.

The Execution: I took the background noise, music, and bear noise from a sound bank (Hollywood Edge). ADR for the announcer/voice over and other human sounds were completed by myself and a classmate. The rest of the effects are original foley work I performed. Most are self-explanatory as to origin, but here are descriptions for some you might not know:

• To make the sound of the honey bottle, kept squeezing a ketchup bottle until I got the desired effect.
• For the slathering of honey, I took the ketchup that I had squeezed out and rubbed it over my hands while wearing rubber gloves.
• With the use of leaves, twigs, and dirt in a box, I made the sounds of the dropping bottle and the running through the woods.
• The sound of the crunch was me biting celery and then equalizing it to make it sound more like crispy chicken.

.: legend of drunken master

The Assignment: Take a 2-3 minute portion of any movie, erase all sound, and replace it with original sound created by the student. Learn how to create in surround sound.

The Execution: Being that this move was already dubbed, I thought I would give it my own twist and re-dubbed it as best I could back into Chinese. As a reference I recorded my mother speaking Chinese for all the parts. Knowing that not everyone has access to surround sound systems, I chose to make a Stereo Mix as well.

ADR: The voice of Fey Hung was recorded by my mother, who made the perfect man's voice with the use of the right microphone that would catch all of her low tones. I spoke for the main woman's voice using the reference track to match dialect and intonation. Another classmate (whose parts were minimum) did the second male part with some coaching. Being limited on females for the other two female roles, I had to change the pitch and speed of the reference track differentiate the voices from the original recording and each other.

Foley: For the footsteps I made two tracks, one stepping in dirt and the other on concrete. Being that the dirt was too low and the concrete too loud, I mixed the two together to make an audible sound. For the tossing of the bottle, I used a filled glass wine bottle and tossed it from hand to hand. Then I popped the cork to replace the sound in the movie.

Music: Tracks from the artist Twelve Girls Band, songs used are Earth Heroes (Unsung Heroes) and Flower & Youth.

Sound Effects: All the rest were placed sounds from sound banks (Hollywood Edge and Ex'Sounds).

.: fuel tv

The Assignment: Take the finished work of a Motion Graphics student and place sound.

The Execution: I chose to work with Scott Nolan and add sound to a piece he did for Fuel TV. I looked through a wide selection of projects that current motion graphics students had recently completed, and his looked like the most fun to add sound to.

Music: Scott had already had the placement of music that fit so well, that I left it alone.

Foley: No foley work was done for this project.

Sound Effects: I used a busy signal from a telephone for the radio tower. For the white dot that traveled up the radio tower, I used the sound of a canon firing and reversed it. Firecrackers were used for the explosion of the radio tower and the single fireworks that went off after that. For all fireworks, I duplicated the tracks and nudged them slightly to make them sound like there were multiple fireworks at once in different tracks. A distorted voice was the count down for the letter flying by and an electric chair sound was used for the radio tower at the end.