MASTERY FILMS – FILM PRODUCTION SERVICES
HOW LOUD IS TOO LOUD? GETTING THE SOUND MIX RIGHT FOR YOUR VIDEO
"Nobody notices good sounds, but everybody notices bad sounds."
Every now and then, you may find yourself in a situation where you can get away with an imperfect shot, but if the audio is bad from the very beginning, you’ve immediately lost your audience.
Think about it - difficult to understand dialogue, overpowering music, and inconsistent volume levels. No one will want to sit through that, and we certainly wouldn’t want something like this to diminish the impact of an otherwise well-produced video!
At Mastery Films, sound mixing is an integral part of our post-production workflow. Here's how we help bring your project's audio to life.
Dialogue Cleaning & Enhancement
Regardless of whether you're producing a television commercial, corporate video, documentary, branded content piece, or feature film, you’re almost certainly bound to have some amount of dialogue within your video, so if your audience can’t properly understand what is being said, your message may be lost.
As we begin this phase of the post-production process, our sound engineer will handle a variety of tasks such as dialogue cleaning, noise reduction, level balancing, and audio enhancement to improve clarity and consistency.
Overall, the goal for all of this is to ensure that whatever dialogue you have within the video, whether it’s a long monologue from your central character, or a soundbite from one of your interviewees, we have to ensure that what they’re saying comes out as natural and intelligible as possible.
Music Integration & Balance
This isn’t a silent film—you’re going to need some music to influence how your audience perceives your video.
However, adding on music will mean that you will need to carefully balance it out with the dialogue you have along with any other sound elements within your video.
It’s because of this that we have our sound mixer and composer work on balancing out all of the audio needs within your video, whether it be finding the right sort of music that enhances the visual storytelling within your video or creating an original piece of music that is unique to your project.
Sound Effects & Atmosphere
Last, but not least, we have our sound effects because the audio in your video is not just about the dialogue you have or the piece of music you choose to use. Whether it's office environments and city streets to nature documentaries with dramatic cinematic sequences, you will notice that there are subtle audio layers that help audiences feel connected to the world on screen.
Without these little nuances in audio design, your video may still be good, but it will feel as though it’s missing that one thing that really makes it pop.
It is through our sound designing process that we’re able to guarantee that these unique audio elements for your video serve to enhance it rather than it becoming distracting to your audience.
Bringing Your Film to Life Through Sound
All in all, sound designing and audio balancing should never be treated as an afterthought. It is via finding the right components to your piece and balancing it out to work in harmony that it then becomes the icing on the cake for your final video.
At Mastery Films, we take great care in this final portion of the project, so allow us and our team of audio engineers to deliver you a video that is polished, professional and is nothing but a great audio/visual experience to your audience.
