Zero to Hero 06 · Voice, music and sound

Give the film a voice and a beat. Part 6 of 14 — 20 video lessons.

What it covers

1. Sound is half the film
2. Voice-over from your script
3. Choosing a voice (and permission to use it)
4. Pacing narration to the pictures
5. Captions from the voice-over
6. Music: licensing before anything else
7. Finding the beat in a track
8. Cutting on the beat
9. Sound effects that sell a moment
10. Levels: voice over music without shouting
11. Silence as a tool
12. Consent and voice cloning: the rules we keep
13. Human listening pass
14. Audio for vertical, muted-by-default feeds
15. Multilingual voice-overs
16. Fixing lip-sync problems
17. Mastering for phones
18. Keeping stems for later edits
19. Checkpoint: a finished soundtrack
20. Part 6 recap

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