Blog Post #54 - Editing: Voice Overs and Sound Effects

 Inside of my project, there are various shots that need a clearer voice or that need a sound effect to give context to them. My goal in this post is to go over how I'm rectifying that. Key points that I have identified that need treatment for this are when Fern looks up towards the door at the end of the montage, when the Killer kills the child (Ethan), when Fern and Ed look towards the camera, and when the car starts in the driveway.


Fern looking at the door can be solved by adding a simple door-knocking sound effect, which my editing app of choice, iMovie, provides for me in its sound catalog. Adding this right before Fern looks at the door will solve this issue.


To rectify the lack of speech when the Killer kills the child, I will need to add a voice-over with a speech filter on it, to make it seem lower quality and more distorted, as it would be recorded through a security camera. To achieve this, I imported a voice recording of myself saying "Please Noo" into iMovie and put its "Shortwave Radio" audio filter over it, distorting the recording.


Fern and Ed looking at the camera is a more complicated case to explain, as its origin relates to a viral trend that arose at the beginning of the year of writing, 2025. The trend consists of looking towards something with your lips sucked in as a noise plays, and it connects back to several other trends. This helps the project to connect with a younger target audience who may understand this reference. To give context to this shot, I will need to add a sound effect of the song into the scene.


I will need to add a sound effect of a car starting to the sped-up scene when the car starts to move backward. I can extract this sound effect from the original clip I recorded and overlay it onto this version— as I spoke on in my previous post.


Below is a revised cut of my project, with temporary markings on the top-right to distinguish when a change was made. A red box in the top-right indicates that a voice-over was added in this scene, and a green box indicates that a sound effect was added.




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