Being the
second time doing this project, I felt like it was a lot easier going into it.
Jake and I sat down and talked about what we wanted our final project to sound
and feel like. We decided on a cold and eerie soundscape. Our final project
definitely exudes what we were going for.
We started
with a base sound effect that could keep our feel constant through out the
soundscape’s entirety. We played around with a lot of different filters and
speeds settling on echo, gain, and pitch. Distorting the original sound as well
as slowing it down immensely provided the appropriate style in which we were
able to work with. Every time we added a new sound, we would keep switching
around the filters and speeds until we decided on one or more that would mesh
well with the other sounds on our sequence. A lot of times, we even reversed
the sound after all changes were made to create a seesaw yet balanced effect.
I think the
biggest thing that was learned during this project was the way in which you can
strip and alter sound to create a feeling or emotion rather than staying a
distinct recognizable sound. Going into
the project wanting to convey a feeling rather than a story was a great way to
learn how to separate narrative sound and experimental sound. I love that we
came up with a specific reaction we wanted from the audience and were able to
convey that with common sound effects.
Overall,
the sound library was very diverse; however, regardless of whether it was or
wasn’t, the point was that no matter what sounds we had to work with, the
mission was to alter the sounds enough to be unrecognizable, in which I think
that we succeeded.
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