Video Project
I feel as though I was able to make many improvements from my original draft of the video project. The most difficult part of this assignment I felt was the filming. I need some practice to get clear and stable shots. In the editing process, I changed a few of the video clips to stills and add some keyframes to create a zoom effect. I feel like adding this effect helped get rid of the shaky scenes that were created when filming. I also added a vignette to some of the scenes to mask the wrinkly table cloth and to make the shots look more esthetic.
For the theme of my video, I tried to go with fun, quirky sounds to help keep the viewer’s interest. I tried to emphasize the brightness of the berries when colour correcting and wanted everything to have a vivid, bright look.
TECH Exercise SOUND Basic Editing
I am having trouble getting the proper file type to upload to my YouTube account. I edited the audio file by adjusting the background noise to make it quieter, adding a slight increase and decrease in sound to the beginning and end. I also made the loudest section quieter by adjusting the gain.
Tech Exercise: Radio Call 2
For this exercise, I learned to put different types of sounds together and how to categorize them based on music, fx, ambiance, voice. I also learned about ducking and how to apply that to an audio.
Sound Project: Project Proposals
Walking through a forest:
One idea I have is to do a soundscape of a person walking through the forest at night. My idea is to have the sounds of the snow crunching as the person walks along a path or through the snow. The listener will be able to imagine what it is that the person walking may be seeing. I would like to incorporate sounds to replicate the sound of snow and wind, and other nature sounds such as birds or water. I would like the listener to feel as though they are walking along a path. I will also include breathing and heartbeat sounds to try and capture a particular mood of feeling.
For this project, I would incorporate the use of sounds that I would collect outside. I will also include a mix of music to add drama. I would imagine this soundscape to be about 2 minutes. I would like to keep this soundscape short to keep the listener interested.
Haircut:
My other idea is to have a soundscape of a person going to a hairdresser. This soundscape would be a short narrative of what would happen from start to finish when going to get a haircut. I will use sounds such as scissors cutting the hair, and try and focus on the sounds moving from one side of the head to the other to add an effect for the listener to feel as though they are getting a haircut. I will also use sounds from the internet, such as background talking and other sounds a person might hear at the hairdressers. I will also include sounds that I will make myself like the sound of scissors, water spraying and a few things that the hairdresser might say to the client. Since this soundscape will be only 3 minutes, I will try to focus it on the haircut portion of going to a salon and not the washing hair/blow dry portion.
TECH Exercise: Repairing Audio
Sounds Project: Draft
Sound Project
For this project I chose a soundscape with the story of getting a hair cut in a salon. I wanted to create an ASMR type experience with the sound. Some of the challenges I faced were dealing with external noise, as I did not have all the equipment needed, and also finding someone to commit to being the “customer.” I did end up making a version with a version with a second voice from iPhone voice memos, but I ended up removing it from the final version because the audio didn’t sound as clean.
In this project, I enjoyed experimenting with sounds to create a salon. It was interesting to find background noise, music and play with creation of hair washing, cutting etc. It was a good process that helped me to learn to use my sound equipment better and I enjoyed the creative process.
