Production Blog - Sound Cutting

On November 18th my group and I had to cut up the song that was decided upon all of us, "Who Says" by Selena Gomez & The Scene. The first minute and fifteen seconds did not fit our standards, therefore we agreed to edit our song. The beginning was too repetitive with its chorus so I wanted to include the bridge and some of the verses. The day of class before recording, my group and I fixed up the song to our liking. This was a very chaotic process, because I had to make sure that the two parts we were combining from different parts of the song made sense together. This took a very long time to achieve this goal. I had to cut much of the middle sections of the song and therefore the instrumental parts that I would have to merge together, in the end, were tricky to build. At times, my group and I had to compromise on what we thought had the best sound in the video. In some parts I felt it was a stretch to put next to each other but there wasn't any other way it could work. Thus, it was the best decision to make that we all had to acknowledge. Furthermore, to get more into context, I utilized the app CapCut to do this editing of the sound. It wasn't possible to edit the sound alone, so my group and I had Lili record a random video until the one minute and fifteen second mark. It was just a video of her room, poster, pillow, and cat. Then I inserted the entire sound of "Who Says" and that is when my group and I started cutting up the song. Moreover, I had to look up the lyrics and closely focus on the main chunks of the song that should be included into our final sound. My group and I got a bit confused at times because of the many chorus segments that would dislocate us from the part in the song we were actually at. However, we got past this and found the correct formation that we all appreciated. Next, we added a fade-in at the beginning and a fade-out at the end. This made the introduction and conclusion have more of an impact on the audience by changing what they hear. Additionally, at some parts in the song we had to lower the volume to end a section and do a fade-in for the next part. This made the transition much smoother. All in all, my group and I collaborated very effectively together and made great advancements in our project.



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