LO4: Reflection on Audience Feedback

Loud Unbalanced Dialogue

There were multiple scenes containing Ava that had some loud and overly unbalanced dialogue. To fix this, I went through all the dialogue and set each one to a reasonable volume. I then selected all of the dialogue and opened the audio workspace.

In the audio workspace, in the Essential Sound panel I assigned it as 'dialogue' and pressed auto balance. This feature brings all of the audio levels of the selected tracks to a balanced level which can be finetuned to preference afterwards.

Flashback Scenes

One of the bits of feedback I received was to make the flashback scenes more obviously flashbacks. To create this effect I desaturated the footage by creating another adjustment layer and placing it over the flashback scenes. Then, in the colour workspace, on the lumetri colour panels, I adjusted the saturation of the adjustment layers.