For the final assignment of the class, we had to create a radio drama using AI Tools. Obviously, I used ElevenLabs for the voices of the characters, while also used Udio to create background music. For the sound effects, however, I used Epidemic Sounds, as I could not find any AI tool to make it for me. I used them as less as possible (only the countdown and the shutter sound), so that the whole piece was mostly created by AI.
SYNOPSIS: A multicultural group of film students struggles with technical difficulties in their short film, relying on humor and the promise of post-production magic to see them through.
The story unfolds the confidence of the fresh film students in the movie in a funny comedic way but gives a hint that “fixing it in post” is not a solution for the film, yet it is something everyone who made a film goes through.
In the project, I used ElevenLabs’ 2 voices from the voice library but created 3 new voices in the voice design studio because of the lack of voices available there. The studio is not very customizable yet but still gave pretty good results.
For the music, I used Udio, which actually gave me good results almost from the first try and allowed me to extend the song both ways (create an intro and outro, as well as simply extend it by adding a new part).
I used Adobe Audition to assemble all the audio files and it was pretty fun to do. As I was a Course Assistant for the Sound Design class last semester, I knew that the most important thing was organizing the tracks and I did it first thing. I did not use any special effects inside the Audition just because even without them it sounded very good and I decided to leave it as it was. However, I feel like I could have done a bit more by adding more sound effects from the Epidemic Sounds and using the settings of the Audition to enhance the radio drama experience.
Here is the final piece of the radio drama called FIX IT IN POST.
Here I also added the screenshot of the tracks from the Audition to show the tracks I used.
