The Sonic Screwdriver

Here is my finalized submission for stop motion and sound. Basically when I approached this, I wanted the sound effects in my movie to be literal and believable (to an extent, because of course this movie is science fiction). So I went through the frames and decided which sounds I needed for each action. Most are actual sounds that objects will make, but I did need some Doctor Who sounds to add that science fiction touch. So on the BBC Doctor Who website I found the actual sounds of a sonic screwdriver, the TV show's theme song, and some additional effects that I thought would be fun to include.

Constructing the soundtrack to my stop motion was the even easier than the stop motion itself. I gathered all my sounds and created a spread sheet that mapped out which sounds would go where and their duration. Referencing my spread sheet, I began to piece together the sound with the video. I added the Doctor Who theme song as background music so the silent parts of the film wouldn't be awkward or boring. Some sounds I had to cut or lengthen in order to be consistent with the video, but that was easy. I didn't need to do much sound editing because the quality of all my sounds were pretty clear, even if I had recorded them myself. Very impressed with my iPhone for being capable of that! The only major sound editing I had to do was to make some sounds louder or quieter when overlapped with another sound at the same time so they wouldn't drown each other out and you would be able to hear the more significant sounds better while still having the other sounds for dynamism.

I am very pleased with how the sound turned out. There is nothing I would want to take out and nothing I would add (adding more would just be too much). Enjoy!