Working on the Sound 3A project, I was reminded of how much we can do with little resources. Jacob in our group had his own sound equipment, using an H4N and his own larger shotgun microphone, and he and I gathered with Adrienne and Brandon to record sound in the Edit Lab. We essentially had already thought of several sound ideas in the class before that toward the end of it, as well as on the Facebook group page we made for the project. Adrienne had compiled a list of all the requirements for the different types of sounds required, and she wrote down many of them under each category. We then proceeded to record several of them, like typing on a keyboard, laughter, wheels rolling, footsteps, spinning a coin, etc.
I was reminded of how amazing sound can be; of course, music can be an incredible artistic entity of its own, but through this assignment I was reminded of how sound can create visual poetry, the way we did; different sounds can tie into different themes together. I was also reminded of how great a sound recording session and library can go with little to o budget; many sounds can also resemble the sound something else would make, like a slamming fist on a table resembling a gunshot, a soda can opening resembling a flashlight/lightswitch turning on, etc. Especially when the editing process begins, the possibilities are even more open. Simply reversing piano pieces and a long, drawn out chord can make for ambient greatness.
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