As part of my time working for Faustian Nonsense, I have been tasked with doing the sound design for Super Suits, this is a total of 20 episodes, each about 30 minutes long. For each episode, I will go into the dropbox where we keep all of the individual voice lines for each character in an episode.
Working from the script I will cut up and arrange all of these lines, choosing takes that best suit the scene and adjusting volumes to get an average db of about -18, this is so that if I need to eventually do a particular line or sound effect louder than everything else, I have some room to work in. Also, for extra content on the patreon I take out any particularly funny bloopers. This Dialogue edit usually takes me 6-8 hours, including the review and export, sometimes the time gets extended because a line will be missing or occasionally the quality of the recording will be subpar, in which case I will figure a work around and edit around the missing line as we don’t really have time for rerecords. However if I can’t figure out a solution I will go to Jaci and we will figure out a solution together.
Once that has all been put together, I will schedule a call with Jaci and we go through the whole thing together to make sure the timings work and there’s no edits that need to be made. After that I begin work on the sound design, this is everything from footsteps to lasers to ambiences. Usually the script will act as my guide but occasionally it will not have a direction for something that the dialogue suggests it should or just something that would make the scene more interesting, in which case I will add it in. We also have scene transitions and a theme song that get added in. Once I’ve done all the sound design I will send it to a few people involved in the production to make sure I’ve not missed anything. Overall after all this an episode can take anywhere from 10-13 hours.
I keep track of all my editing hours in a spreadsheet and once an episode is completed I send an invoice to Jaci and Move on to the next episode. I’m going to start doing 3 dialogue edits at a time and then doing the sound after that, just so it’s not too jarring going between different mindsets for editing. I’ve completed 2 so far and am currently working on episode 3.