Sound Projects Aice Media Overview

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     During the past two weeks I have been exposing myself to the various aspects of sound design and how it corresponds to the world of media and content creation. I was given two projects with the primary goal in mind of trying to master this concept. The first involved telling a full one to one and a half minute story with nothing but sound, and the second involved adding audio to a previous project that was designed without any auditory aspects present. During the process of making these two projects I grasped the true value that audio has on visual content, and learned how to incorporate what I was taught into a functional purpose.

Sound Project 1:

    The first project we were assigned was my first true exposure to introducing audio into my story telling for the class. Me and my classmate on the first day after some brainstorming decided on making our soundscape inspired by a traditional car race. First, we thought of what folly sounds we could incorporate which is were we realized the human voice was a surprisingly effective way to to make car noises that not only sounded really but were costume to out liking. After thinking through how what sounds we were going to look for online and create on our own, we used a paper to organize our thoughts. This outline that we created lead to us having a clearer vision on what we wanted in our final project and it especially proved to be an easy way to check that we had all the sounds we wanted and intended to use for the project. Once we had all the peaces we wanted for our project, we used Adobe Premiere to put together our project. In the end, while we did a good job recreating the feeling of being a race car diver in a race, we could have done a better job with the volume control of certain peaces and making the audio not feel as fast paced as it did. 

(Link to project): Sound Project 1

Sound Project 2:

    Shortly after completing the first sound project, we were assigned another with a sightly different objective to further strengthen our practice with the material. We were tasked to add audio to our One Word Film projects that we did a couple of week ago which were made without any auditory devices. Me and the person I did this project with instantly went back to the drawing board to make an outline of the sounds we would use for this project. This time the outline we made was less focused on organization, but rather with how we planned on layering our sounds in the final outcome. Once we had a clear idea and structure for our sounds (Ex: whether they would be primary or secondary) and where they could be placed, I made my own interpretation of how the soundscape should be using iMovie. While I believe it is arguable that I did a good job with the choice of sounds and how they correlate to the theme of the film especially when it comes to the use of the heartbeat throughout the peace, I could definitely next time do a better job making the audio feel more layered and intricate then I did on this particular project. 

(Link to project): Sound Project 2