Sound Project

For this project my partner Andrea and I created a scene only using sound - both sound from an online source and foley made at home. It was a one and a half minute scene with no video. It had to be made so that the audience could understand the scene simply by listening.

To begin the project, we created a soundscape outline. We decided to make the scene based on trick or treating on Halloween night. We included three main events: A girl getting scared by a teenager, trick or treating at a house hosting a party, and it starting to storm. These events made the scene feel eventful and not super continuous to keep the audience engaged.

For our sounds, we concluded to have four foley sounds, and the rest found online on websites such as SoundBible. We recorded the footsteps, birds, rustling bushes, and "candy" being thrown in a bucket. Instead of candy, we used Splenda, which ended up sounding very similar to the candy used during Halloween. We recorded the rest of the more natural sounds outdoors during school, which also added wind to the project.

The rest of the sounds were downloaded online using the sources given to us for the project. All of the sounds were then put into a Premiere Pro project. There were a lot of changes needed to be made, such as adjusting volumes, fade-ins, fade-outs, muffling certain sounds, and making them longer to fit the project. There was a lot of layering needed to make the project sound the most natural possible. Luckily, we included good background sounds in our outline. We included our final project in a folder containing all of our work, including videos of foley.

Final project folder

Final project audio

Camera shots/angles Quiz

     A few weeks ago I worked on a quiz to practice for camera shots and angles. This was unlike a normal quiz, the directions were to develop a story based on an inanimate object through picture shots, 15 total.  The objective was to provide meaning to each shot to show your understanding of how shots affect the story.

    For my quiz, a made the story about a keychain (one I had in my backpack) coming to life and escaping the backpack. It explored the classroom until it was eventually stepped on and brought back into the bag. I tried to make the story natural by mixing in the required shots with other shots, like an extreme long shot, to emphasize how small the keychain feels compared to the classroom. I then used shots like an extreme closeup and POV shot to show fear and the reaction to being stepped on, even though the keychain doesn't truly have facial expressions or emotions. I put this all in a Google Slides document.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11AXqVwY63TtAb4WwwX7t5eM0r_LD1bXx3TE3-9D_rlA/edit?usp=sharing

    I think when it came to the meaning of the shots, I did well displaying the feeling of being too small or the fear of being stepped on. However, I think the story was too simple and direct. The story had no deeper meaning or lesson learned. This made my shots feel repetitive in meaning. All of my shots only focused on him feeling small or scared. If it had more detail in the story, I could use a variety of other meanings in my shots. Overall, though, I feel like I did well displaying what each shot meant.

    

Introductory

 My name is Alexandra. I am starting this blog for future projects and to document my progress. I think it is great to show step by step planning on what to do for projects.