First, I approached this project by brainstorming ideas for a scene. My partner and I came up with the idea of a duel, so I immediately began to research videos of duel scenes from movies to see what sounds composed the story. After deciding what sounds we needed to include, I searched on various websites and on YouTube to find the sounds that I needed. I started with the background noises that would continue the whole way through: wind, insects, sand. After compiling the sounds together, making the audio about 2 minutes long, I looked for the actual features of the sound.
Sounds that couldn't be easily incorporated into the project through the use of recording its real life counterpart or by using the Internet, like the dialogue, the stings, the horse neighs, and the gunshot, had to be created through foley. At the beginning of the scene, the man approaches on horseback. I tried to imitate the horse hooves using mugs on towels atop a hard surface. It didn't come out as I wanted it to since the setting takes place in a desert. I then researched how foley artists recreate the sound of sand and I concluded that using rice would be the best way. I then made used two cups as the hooves atop a bag of rice with a towel in between in order to avoid the sound of the plastic bag rustling.
The next foley sound I created was the sound of reins. Having ridden a horse before, I thought this sound best resembled the sound of belts hitting each other. I moved multiple belts at the rhythm of the hooves to create the sound of all the harnesses and horse equipment making noise as the horse moves. All the other sounds, with the exception of the footsteps and clothes rustling, which was recreated with moving a crumpled paper, the other sounds were put together using Adobe Premiere Pro.
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