Lo4 - Audio levels

Here you can see the audio levels for the 'Million Things' audio, as you can clearly denote the levels are extremely high. This is because as it's ideal for audio visuals to have loud volume, especially when it comes to music as people often want to turn it up and have the song on max volume. Therefore, I decided not to increase the level or bypass of the audio, since the audience can adjust the sound to be as loud or quiet as they want at home. The audio levels were also conventional to how loud a standard music video's are as I compared it to other professional music videos such as 'Soundcheck' by Catfish and The Bottlemen through youtube.

I got this sound effect from a website called freesound.com. I decided to include the sound of an audience talking in the background in order to reinforce the location and atmosphere of the video. Since, we were in a studio that had a row of seats and area for a crowd to be. I also though that by including the sound of a crowd talking, it would connote that the audience should be excited to listen to the music as the crow seem excited as if they're waiting for the band to come on stage - therefore hopefully making the viewer feel the same way. The sound of the crowd talking also helps reinforce the target audience of my audio visual as you can hear young men and women, which is ideal as my target audience is of mostly males, partly females aged 16+. Hopefully my audience can relate to the people talking and therefore want to carry on watching as they could in-vision themselves watching this gig. The audio levels on this sound effect were very quiet in comparison to my other sound effects and 'million things' audio, therefore I went onto the audio effects of the sound and increased the level to 5.6 dB in order to make the sound louder, this went successfully and allowed all of my sound effects to merge perfectly.

This footsteps sound effect was downloaded from freesound.com. I used the footsteps SFX at the begging of my music video during the 'introduction' where the band are walking out from behind the curtains into the studio. I wanted to use footsteps as not only was I told that this would make the video more entertaining to watch through feedback but I also wanted to add as many realistic sounds that were relevant to the scene i order to create a better atmosphere and allow the clips to make more sense. Since, you'd clearly be able to hear the band members footsteps if you could hear noises such as the crowd talking in the background. The audio levels on this sound effect were quite loud and therefore I had to decrease the volume by going on the audio effects and changing the level to -7.3dB. This made it so that the sound didn't drown out all of my other sound effects and was also even with the audio levels of the 'million things' so that when the song came on it wasn't a shock or too loud to my audience.

This static xylophone sound effect was found on freesound.com and was used to act as the noise that a guitar amp would make whilst you're plugging it in. This helped reinforce the fact that the band were using instruments such as en electric guitar and keyboard, therefore connoting the genre of the audio visual to the audience. This sound also helps add to the realism within the scene as we also hear other noises such as the crowd taking and the footsteps of the band members. This noise is something that people who play an instrument will be fairly similar with, which many indie fans do. Therefore hopefully allowing the audience to relate. The audio levels on this clip were louder than any of my other sound effects and therefore I had to drastically decrease it's levels. I changed the level to -18.9 dB as also known in the above screenshot, in order to make all sounds play together nicely and conventionally to a professional music video.