Editing Audio

When it came to editing our Audio we had some problems and some of those problems were :

• uploading sounds and having no volume 
• having sounds that did not sound good at all and having to change them, which meant that we would have to go out again and find more sounds to record. 
• Church, Cafe,  and Weststreet bits of sounds missing 

However we did mange to edit the sounds we had and made them sound good and experimented on them by using Pro Tools . 

I think that editing went well we did work well with what we had and made it sound as good as we could the  thing that went bad is having some missing fills.  

Audio Production

To produce our audio project we used H4N Zoom recorder. It was important that we used this tool because it picked up the sound well and didn't have problems whilst we were recording,
Over all i thought that the recording went well , we made sure that we meet up on the days and times we said we would to record  sound, in which we did. Because of that reason it all went well.

However we did face some problems and those problem was when we went to  record sometimes there would be people and noises that we did not want in our sound. However this problem was sorted out easily by being able to cut the unwanted sound or meeting up again and then recording the sounds.

The places where we went to get our sounds from was:

• Church 
• Park
• cafe( University) 
• Westreet 
• Near shopping centres - For constriction sounds 

Audio Pre production

To produce our audio me and Myles had to do some pre-prodction work. This was things like:

• Audio planing
• visiting the places we was going to film and asking if it was ok 
•  Production schedule, so that we knew where and what time to meet, this is important for us because me and myles were working on another project so having a specific  time and day we would meet made our jobs easier. 
• finalising out audio idea 

Coming up with sound idea

This week me and Myles came up with an idea for our audio project and discussed it between each other.At first we thought of  lots of ideas, but didn't know where it was going. Although it was just the audio part we need to concentrate on we still didn't want to be stuck when i came to making the experimental film for it. And therefor we made sure that the audio idea  we was coming up for had a sequence and story to it. Meaning it was something  film-able and not to complicated. 

the concept idea for our audio project is about someone wondering and hearing different sounds as they are walking past different locations. The idea of it is to make it feel and sound like if this person is in a dream just passing by different places and hearing different sounds. We also thought that it would be a good idea if the character for the audio would be a female, so that we can hear them whilst they are walking past in their high heels. This way if the high heels stop or anything happens to the sound of the high heels it will leave the audience wondering what has happened. 
The type of sounds we plan to get and get them from is : 

• Weststreet- We wanted to record sounds here at night time so that we can have a lot of noises of people, clubs, bars, shops etc. This is a busy location so we will have a great chance of getting the sound that we want. 
• Cathedral- We want to record sounds here so that we have a sense of peaceful sound. This could be used in our audio project after hearing a lot of noisy sound and then a change can happen where we would hear something  quite and peace. This way it will give our audience a break from hearing loud noises.
• Park -We want to record sound here so that  we have sounds of kids, dogs, ducks, water, tree, leaves etc. This way we have sound of nature too . 
• Cafe-We want to record here so that we have sound of people, newspaper, book , pen, coffee machines and have a sound of sociable place.

Starting Experimental project

This was the week when i was introduced to sound listening for our experimental audio project. Before having to come up with an idea for our audio project me and my class got the chance  to listen to some sounds, and discus what they could of been and what they made us think of. After listening to some sounds we also had the chance to go as a class to difference location to listen to the sounds that was around us. This time we had to get in to groups of two, in which i did with Myles Chimuntanda and then go around the location  and take notes of the things we heard. 

The location we went to was :

• Train Station :- From this place me and Myles picked up sounds like  foot steps, Coffee machines, people sipping in to their drinks, people arguing,announcements,  newspapers being turned, pen, book, someone crossing out what they were writing etc. 

• Cathedral: From this place we got the sense of peacefulness, we heard the atoms sound and echoing when someone walks in to the room, outside noises such as traffic light and construction workers. And because it was a very quite and echoey place you can hear things like people whispering and praying, that gives of another sense of feeling to you.

• Winter Garden: From this place we hd the sound of water, kids, people passing by, busyness etc 

For me this was my first time actually listening to what was around me, normally i hear things that are obvious but i never sat down and actually listened to the littlest things that was around me. So experiencing this is was useful for me,  because when it came to noting down some ideas it came in handy.