I worked on a musicless music video that you can watch by scrolling down. I used the Green Day video, “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” as my song choice.

When I came to make the music video, I used a mix of various different sound effects including those that I both downloaded and created. I created the ones I could. I got Phil to play the electric guitar and drums, while I recorded this using the zoom kit in the TV studio . I downloaded some sound effects from the BBC sound effect website. For example – I downloaded a sound effect for slamming the car door. I also downloaded a sound effect to replace the wind we hear at the beginning of the original video and a sound effect for footsteps. I hoped this choice of sound effects would blend well together in the final video. When it came to editing the audio effects together with the footage, I cut out a lot of the original Greenwood video and only focussed on the parts with the driving, the walking and the playing of music.

It could only be up to 1.5 minutes long so I couldn’t include too much. In the scene where the men are driving, I have the wind effect and something of a car sound effect as well. When they get out of the car the main character kicks the door shut and then gives one of the wheels a kick. I used a ‘slamming door’ sound effect along with a ‘kicking’ sound effect and I think I managed to get them perfectly in sync. When the characters get out of car, they start walking and this when the music starts in the original video. However, I changed it so there was no music in that part. Instead, I used a loud exaggerated sound effect of footsteps through that part. In the original video, the protagonist starts singing about 38 seconds into the video, but in my version, that was when I cut it straight to when they’re in a studio playing their instruments.

When we see the guitar being played in the original, I replaced that audio with my rubbish recording of Phil playing the guitar. When we see the drums being played in the original, that’s when I added my recording of drums. Eventually we had it so that both the guitar and the drum recording were going on at the same time, with the aim for it to sound like a real band – a rubbish band but still a band nonetheless… Once I believed it to be done, I thought it was decent but at the same time there was an issue with it. There were bits with the man clearly opening his mouth like he was singing but we had no sound effect for that. It was suggested that I should have some kind of sound effect for that even if it was something stupid like a dog barking – or something along those lines. I searched the BBC sound effects. I considered the possibility that I could use a child’s voice for it. It would make it really random and bizarre in a funny way. I downloaded a child’s voice online but I struggled to get it to fit with the parts where he sings. Eventually I decided to try to cut out most of the parts where the man sings because it was just too awkward. However, I did include one shot of him singing. When I was recording the guitar and drums being played, there were a few bits of recording where we talked. I included a tiny bit of that dialogue for the video right at the end and I thought it was pretty funny.