Sound Design for MUS399 Final Project Surround Sound 5.1

For the Surround Sound 5.1 Project, i planned into several stage of processes.

First Stage: Choose 3 Minutes scene of any movies.
- watch several movies and choose the one that i am able to design the whole sound for it.
- so the movie chosen was the Terminator 3: Raise of the Machines directed by Jonathan Mostow . 
- list down any sound that i have on mind for that scene.

Second Stage: Sound Gathering
- Most of the sounds i gathered were all natural from around Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Shopping Center,some of the local resident in Karama and my house in Nightcliff .
- Field recording devices used were: Marantz PMD660 , AKG300 with CK-91 Head, Mic Cable and Headphone.
-The sounds i gathered consists of : Falling Bricks, Door Slams, Room with air conditioning on , Metal rubbish bin,  Elevator sliding door and up down movements , breaking the ceramic pots, breaking the Extra Dry Beer bottle, Deodorant spray , electric shaver, falling plastic container filled with books and other small stuff, spanner, water spills from toilet tab, metal flag pole, electric neon light ball, foot steps, hitting the couch and other air conditioned room sound.

Third Stage: Sound Audition and Sound Editing
-I started with the Stereo 2.0 by using Pro tools 8 and Mbox2 to audit and edit the sound.
-Listen to each sound, decide which part of the scene will this sound perfectly sit.
-Rename each sound, apply cutting , trim and place them on the scene.
-Apply Audio Suit features such as Stretch, reverse , pitch down or up, compression , filter Eq, to some sound that need instant effects.
-clean up the audio
-Audition and  final edit on the sound to be sync with the picture.

Fourth Stage: Mixing on 5.1 Surround Sound
-Transform the 2.0 to 5.1 Surround Sound.
-Decide the track output routing.
-Audition
-Apply Filter Eq, Eq , compression , Reverb on each track.
-Distribute and place each sound on the space (panning).
-Apply level and mix with other sound to get the best result.

Final Stage: Refine Final Mix and Bounce to disc
-Final Mix audition,
-Refine the Mix by apply levels, effects.
-Final Audition.
-Bounce to Disk.
-Create DVD.