Princess Mononoke Foley Sound Evaluation

Princess Mononoke Foley Sound Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdLkAhNKic

The first thing we recorded was the deer and horses hooves steps as we could see they were continuously running throughout the clip. The recording of the coconut seemed to fit very well and in sync with the visuals. We made sure that the deer's hooves could only be heard when the camera was close to it and added a fade so that when the deer ran away off screen the sound followed it. We also made the horses hooves quieter than the deers during the shot were the horses can be seen from a distance, this worked since it match with the visuals which showed the horses further away from the camera. When the camera got close to the horses though we made the horses hooves loud since their where two of them and they are heavy animals.

We also made sure that the sound could be heard in sync with the arrows hitting the ground at the very beginning, the sound of a wooden pole didn't sound perfect but it fit well enough. 

We added the sound of a bag being hit by a wooden pole as the sound effect of one of the soldiers attacking the villager and a man shouting this was in perfect timing with the soundtrack which picks up just as the action begins and the virus attacks the main characters arm.
the sound of the virus was perfect, it sounded slimy and other worldly however because it was the made from lettuce swishing around in ketchup, even when turned up to the maximum it was slightly drowned out by the music.

We used the sound of raw meat smacking wood as the sound of the arms being pinned to the tree and although it sounded perfect it didn't quite match the timing of the visuals.  The wind sound effect however, made by simply blowing into the microphone, worked well with the arrows flying through the air and the thump at the end, made by dropping a heavy bag on the floor, was also in time with the body falling of the horse.

All around we did quite well and worked very well together as a team helping each other to make the sounds, as all sound effects apart from the soundtrack were made by us. We however missed a few sounds such as the sounds of the other soldiers and the sound of the panicked villager, the deer and horses are also completely silent apart from their hooves. We also forgot to add in the sound of the bucket being kicked as the deer ran past and also forgot to add any more sounds of the men. There was also some inconsistency as we forgot to add the same twang noise of the arrow from the beginning in the later scenes. The sound of the head being knocked of also doesn't seem to fit with the visual.

The sounds used match with the targeted audience as the anime itself is targeted for older children and teens and so the sounds used are not meant to be cartoony but more realistic. The sounds are very well synced with the action in the scene and some sounds needed to be slowed down so that they sounded right like the sound used to create the virus under the characters arm.