PRP artifact 4

The fourth artifact was of Dave the robot. A character resembling a robot walking mechanically through a tunnel of what seems to be the hull of a ships or submarine.

So first of all the footsteps were all together different than what i had made before. In stead of trying to mimic the sound of bare feet a different approach was to be undertaken. The robot's or Dave's feet are bulky and heavy looking. They are composed of the front part or the toes and the back which is the heal. So like the past footstep i have made the footstep is of two parts but this time the sound will be heavier and of a metallic quality. THe step was recorded by banging a spanner on a pot. Then sound was altered with a plug in which give the sound a repeat with a slight delay and a pitch bend. This was for one step, so for the other foot decided to duplicate the track and pitch bend it to a semitone which gives the walking more of a rhythmic feel. The footsteps were given an overall reverb effect to give the sounds spacial quality which works in the environment the scene's in.

The lifting of the legs where made by recording different sounds from an electric drill. Different speeds of the drill and counter-forcing the drill changed the amplitude, frequency and made it click which created different sorts of sounds which were then later layered and added to give the impression than the legs were hydraulically powered give to Dave its robotic nature.

Some of the sounds from the drill were also layered with recordings from an electric toothbrush to add to the movements of the robot's stance as its arms were also moving to give balance to the walking.

Dave's head movement were also added with drill sound recordings.

In this clip there are three shots. The first shot is a frontal one, so Dave comes towards the audience until a maximum close up which then cuts to the next shot which is of the back of the robot walking away. Then there is a profile shot of Dave going across the screen from left to right. After having created  and designed all of the Foley, I made a  master fader track to pan the amplitude of the scene's sound.

An Sm57 microphone was sufficient to record the sound coming from the electric props.