Experimental sound Completed

Experimental sound Completed

Evaluation

Here is my final sound recording, I believe I have successfully created and merged the right sounds together that reflect the type of mood and atmosphere you would expect when looking at this image. I have considered time and space and attempted to recreate a quite surreal atmosphere inside and outside. If given the opportunity to do this again I probably would try and create a lot emotion through dialogue during inside the diner, also consider life in 1942 a lot more. Through the tutorials I can honestly say that I have learned a whole lot about sound, its such a remarkable element with boundless opportunities, its something that I definitely need to improve upon and perfect.  

Time Art Finished / Evaluation

Time Art Finished / Evaluation 

For my idea I wanted to keep it simple, I wanted to show the viewer a little more of who I am and what i'm interested in, I believe I have achieved this goal and demonstrated various techniques that I have learned and obtained through tutorials and my own research. If given the opportunity to do this again I probably would try and utilize the empty space a bit more and perhaps make the video a lot more interactive and also experiment with different font styles. In terms of color that is one thing that I have considered and applied to my work as well as typography to make up for the loss of sound which is something I think I successfully achieved. Although at times it was quite difficult at time with trying to fill each screen with content that would perfectly reflect each activity.   

Time Art -Effects used

Time Art Progress - Effects used

With a little help from the tutorials I watched and also the tutorials we learned with Simon in previous lessons I really wanted to try apply the skills that I learned towards the Time Art video .

http://atomlintimeart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/after-effects-introduction.html

 

For example using the image above for the middle screen showing me listening to music I wanted to display musical notes that will appear, just to make the visuals look a lot more genuine and believable. In order to do this I made multiple copies of musical notes and then placed key frames on each layer and adjusted the scale for each music note. So as it appears multiple musical notes will appear in different sizes moving around the screen. 

(Musical notes- key framing)

I made a late change to my idea and how it would end and decided to include a little more humor and comedy to the video. Similar to the tutorial given to us by Simone about manipulating objects using key framing, I wanted to attempt to do the same

  

Tutorial we did 

http://atomlintimeart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/after-effects-introduction.html

Furthermore by right clicking key frames I then selected the easy ease option to make each movement a lot smoother 

Editing in Audition

Editing in Audition

When layering different sounds together I wanted to make sure that they can smoothly transition in and out to to the point where you don't even realize the transition, because at first the way I layered the sounds 

What my final multitrack looked like

Changed my Idea !!!! (experimental sound)

Changed my Idea !!!!

I decided to just keep my idea simple and just re-enact the sounds you would expect when viewing the image, to make it more authentic I wanted to incorporate sounds you may expect to hear in the 1940's. So I stumbled across a man called Arthur Tracy

Arthur Tracy was an American vocalist, billed as The Street Singer. His performances in theatre, films and radio, along with his recordings, brought him international fame in the 1930s. I looked online and found radio broadcast Arthur Tracy did in 1942.

I thought this would be a perfect fit to compliment my sound more and make it sound a lot more realistic. One piece of advice I gained which was extremely helpful was to always refer back to the image, which is something I never did before, which reflected in my first attempt. Below I have a few sounds I recorded, some I used and others I was just experimenting with different things for example sounds I used with my mouth and other objects.

Rosie's response (photography)

Rosie's response (photography)

Rosie's had a lot of positive feedback about my photos she said the images looked quite strong, however she thinks the images would look a lot better with just the white background, and how placing another background on top of it  distracts you from the main image and doesn't make it as strong. Which I agree with, so for my final images I am just going to have them on a white background.

Recording Studio Film/sound project

27/03/2014
Foley Studio *1

We decided to record a few sounds for our experimental sound project and also a few sounds for film. The day was mostly spent experimenting with whatever we can find and seeing what sound we can create. The picture below shows a few examples of things we used to make different sounds for example in the first image we used the screen to recreate a heart beat, in the third image we found the thumping sound the door makes when closed quite interesting so we also recorded that. 

One thing I didn't consider when recording is creating my own sounds, by using my mouth and hands. That's definitely one thing I am going to do when I use the recording studio.

Sound we experimented with by using various different objects 

(experimental sound)

Sounds for our Film 

(The Recovery)