Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Experimenting with sound

As reflected within the previous video, we have discussed using non-diegetic, horror-like sounds during the first establishing shot of our trailer. We may continue these sounds throughout the teaser, but we have not discussed this just yet
Within class, we experimented with various sounds we could include to represent a distorted, freaky sound. At first we considered using www.freesound.org likewise to last year, but after some research we found it difficult to select particular sounds e.g. a moan would seem exaggerated and we would have to upload various other sounds to fit alongside this well. Therefore, we suggested making our own sound. At first we felt Garage Band - a programme on our schools AppleMac's - may be ideal, as we could produce our own distinctive sounds. However, finding this difficult, we thought of a simple idea; to record our own voices but edit these strangely.
Therefore, we practised this technique on the Apple Mac's. We firstly recorded ourselves talking/making strange noises/hitting objects around us, etc... and then adding edits such as reversing these sounds, fast-pacing them, speeding them up, etc... The first two sounds on the video below represent this. However, after some practise, we found it more suitable for our initial ideas to simply press record and reflect the natural sounds around us. As we were in a classroom environment, typical sounds such as people coughing and chairs being moved could be heard, although they seem echoed/groan on the recording; which was our main aim.
The video below represents all of the sounds as explained above:

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