Final Cut and Sounds

Sound was going to be very important to this animatic as it will help give the effect of a fast paced battle and give the subtle animations much more as a immersive animation. I decided to rip my sounds from the film “Mongol”. I took the sounds from various clips from a final battle scene in the film. I used the subtle music of quiet scenes for when my armies are facing eachother, by having a quiet scene before the action, the action scenes will have more impact. My fighting scenes consist of 4 deaths, 1 by arrow 3 by swords and spears. From the arrow I have charging sounds and with every death I made sure it wasn’t just the sound of one person dying. I wanted there to be sounds in the background going off as to show this is a large scale battle. This happens especially with the sword kills, I have timed slash sounds with the animations however loud shouting, cries and more slashing can be heard throughout the rest of the animations. For the end of the battle I tried to blend the music in so the final scene did not seem so abrupt an ending. I have a script for a voice over which I will attempt, originally I was going to have it spoken in Russian and subtitled (Russian is very similar to Mongolian) there a Russian speaking people in the college but not so much Mongolian. I will however have to record myself, if it does not work or add anything to the animation I may just add subtitles but include both animatics.