Jack in the Box Scene

After watching Abbie's blog post on the editing of the Jack in the Box scene, I wasn't quite happy with the non diegetic sound, as I felt like it didn't seem natural and it didn't fit with the hand movements. So, I decided to record the sound for the jack in the box, making it a diegetic sound.

  Click Here to watch Abbie's original edit: 

Here is the vlog, of how I recorded the sound:

Editing the sound

• The first thing I did, was to compress the sound and to raise the gain, so that the sound would be louder.

• I then created an auxiliary strip, where I labeled "reverb. This is so that the sound would have some delay, which makes it sound more natural.
• To create the reverb on the new auxiliary strip, I used the space designer and I chose the "nice hall" reverb.
• Back onto the audio strip, which contains the recording of the Jack in the Box, I sent the sound to the reverb auxiliary channel, which is also called "bus 1". 
• Where there is a circle, I could control, how much of the sound I wanted to send to the reverb auxiliary strip.

• The denoiser was used to cut out some of the frequency which is not in the threshold which I had manually set.

• I pitch shifted some of the sound so that it would sound more eerie, but I didn't make it too obvious so it would sound uncomfortable, as I had turned the output mix down.

Here is the finished sound:

  I think this sounds a lot more natural and it would suit the scene a lot more than the non diegetic sound that I made, just because it was painfully obvious that the sound of the jack in the box was a non diegetic rather than diegetic which it is meant to be.