RE-Construction Of Audio Project Idea

The New and Re Developed Idea From The Feedback and Constructive Criticism 

This is what our final Idea consist of. As u can see the narrative has been altered slightly but the main aspect tat we have changed coming from the feedback has been the structure. Both parts now link together by crossing over one another giving of the emotion of sadness and anger to the audience. It will also make the audience feel uncomfortable due to the soundscapes and shouting audio tracks being  mixed into one. We will also make sure that the sequences get substantially faster and gain in content as well as speed.  

There is also in the spider diagram the start of an Idea for camera shots that I am visualizing for the experimental film. The house hold appliances would look nice shot close up and then as we want to keep the identity of our character a secret until the end ex stream long shots / close ups could be used along with the sequences and montage of audio files.  

Audio Project Feedback

Constructive Criticism and Feedback From Audio Project

Overall the audience liked the concept of the audio project and all agreed it was a good narrative but they including myself now agree that the structure of it made it slightly confusing. What they suggested which I a going to change is that the sequences should be integrated with the second half of the audio project, i.e. the soundscape atmospheres and the shooting / arguments at the end. The audience liked the first set of sequences but believed that the speed of it could have been even more substantial than it already was to create a more uneasy atmosphere within the audience. 

I think mixing the two parts of the project instead of almost starting the second part of it half way through is an interesting point and will definitely look at changing it. Cross mixing the 2 parts could be effective and give of an entirely different emotion to the audience and in this case more effective that my original Idea.      

Editing Sound Project Continued

Editing Sound Project Continued 

After lining up the first sequence of sounds the sequence was doubled by copying and pasting it and then joining it up with the previous sequence. this meant that both would play one after anther and the only difference between the two is when I changed the speed of the second to make it faster. A third sequence was then copied and again placed after the second being sped up even quicker than the previous so its a shorter sequence. After these three sequences were put into place we imported the atmospheres into soundtrack and trimmed / lined them up. The argument recordings were then put in after the journey through the atmospheres and put at the end of the 3 minuet project. The project was the burnt onto a disk using .tiff format and was ready for evaluation and feedback.    

Editing Audio Project

Editing of The Audio Project

First off while recording the experimental piece my partner and I gathered together the resources (in this case audio files) over a matter of days across Sheffield city and also in my flat was able to record the sounds such as kitchen appliances and every day morning routine sounds like alarm clocks and water running from a tap. The atmospheres of the city were also recorded through the zoom mic and each of them lasted around a minuet 

We started the editing process using soundtrack pro as this is software that both my partner and I are used to and thought it would be the most effective to use. We started by importing our sounds into soundtrack and selecting which ones we could use and which were either poor due to unnecessary background noise when recording.     

We placed the Audio files individually on different tracks and then started to trim and cut them so that the clip contained just the sound we wanted. They were then aligned and placed next to each other and some of them overlapping. The first sequence of the morning routine was created.  

Experimental Project- Chris Watson

Analysis and Research of Chris Watson Sound Recordist

I have decided to carry out some research on local sound recordist Christ Watson who has become one of the leading sound and audio producers working alongside the BBC and also specializing in wildlife and nature sounds. What Impresses me especially when going to listen to his work at an exhibition called 'inside the circle of fire' in the Millennium Gallery Sheffield was the detail and individual sounds that go alongside his main mix such as little bird or insect sounds that could sometimes be over heard by the other atmosphere sounds but nver the less added a huge effect when listening.

What Chris has also used is locations, the exhibition goes from rather extravagant wildlife locations but also very familiar ones too such as Bramall Lane football stadium including the chants from the crowd were to me and many other very familiar but gave a very different atmosphere than just a normal football stadium due to the way it was edited and put together.

What I was really impressed about was the fact that everyone had their owns visuals in their head and could imagine different things coming from the recordings. For example for the football stadium part I could actually imagine riots due to how he effected and edited together the sounds rather than just a football chant from the fans.

Altogether Chris has inspired me to dive deeper into the sound project so not only will I have enough sounds to choose from when it comes to editing but will have a selection that can be used to mx together and creat depth in the project.    

Steel Homes

Steel Homes Analysis - Eva Webber 2008

Steel Homes (A short film/documentary) directed by Eva Webber (2008) was selected and won numerous awards from the 'Sundance Film Festival'. The short film explores the lives of people who have lost loved ones and are left with their loved ones belongings from the past which are stored in containers which they buy or rent. Eva explores the emotions of these people and what certain objects that their love ones left behind mean to certain individuals and the history that they can provide.

 I really like the way that the director has used something that to most people means nothing but to certain individuals could mean so much and could give them memories from the past. I thought the idea of the film was very simple but brilliantly put together through the unscripted views of the people involved. I also really liked the first couple of minuets where the use of close up on the objects is used with a simple voice over the top of the sequence. It was effective and had some meaning behind it as the objects related to the voice over. Another aspect and technique I like that Eva used was the use of the long corridors in the location the filming the people at the bottom of them made it look as if they were isolated and insecure, wither this was meant or not I found it as an audience member very effective and interesting. The one aspect I wasn't to sure about was the location shots used as cut away's throughout and thought it could have been more effective if they filmed even more of the peoples emotions instead that they documenting.

Overall the film really explores how through objects people could express so much emotion and is really captured by the director through the shot choice and voice overs of the people who are being documented in the film.

Salaryman - Jake Knight

Research for Sound Project - Salaryman 

The short film Salaryman by Jake Knight was a really key source in our research due to the concept of it and how the narrative is structured. For example it is all based around a businessman and what seems the endless routine of his everyday life. It really implies how the character is feeling and shows the audience what kind of life this man has through a sequence repeating itself and gaining speed until something as radical as for the character to get hurt changes his mundane and repetitive life. I like the short film because the sequences that are played throughout it really show the audience what kinda of person this character plays and how his life is portrayed. I like the idea of each sequence speeding up as it kept the audience interested in wanting to know what happenes when it gets to the end. For our idea I think we will use the idea of a sequence and use different speeds throughout our audio project. Things such as household appliances and a typical morning routine could be effective and engaging for the audience, they could also relate to it and then as fr as the second part of our audio project goes soundscapes of another sequence will be recorded.