Foundations Drama - Telephone Sound Editing

Within the script, there is a section where Matt, our protagonist, gets home from his interview and sits to hear his voicemail messages - this is were he finds out he didn't get the job. During the process of cutting the footage, I decided to have a look on how I could edit the sound bites I'd received from Alex to create a 'telephone' effect.

To do this, I used the program SoundTrack Pro, and imported the sound bite. I haven't had much experience with this program over the module, so I decided to explore the program and find out how to make this work. To create the telephone effect,  I opened up a vocal project and imported the file, then I used the Graphic Equaliser option, and played with the sound levels to see what effect they had on the sound bite. The screenshot above, shows the successful edit of the sound bite. I feel that this was the most successful levels to use to create a telephone effect, as it sounded slightly muffled but still clear enough to understand what the sound bite dialogue was. Since this style of dialogue was used a few times within the particular scene with the voicemail, I thought it would save time in the future to save this effect as a default effect within my Soundtrack Pro Library, so this could be easily accessed by Alex or myself when it came to needing more sound editing.