Sound Piece Script

In addition to what the sculptures mean I want to have a link towards personality, such as spirit animals, as well as the sculptures represent a subconscious of everyone's mind it's not telling the person what to feel it's giving them an example of what they might feel, what they might say, what they might be thinking. It's not a definite that's what they're feeling but it's more vague and general so it can imprint on anybody. The sculptures are not telling them what to feel and how to feel it showing examples of a physical format of what their subconscious might look like.

Notes: The beast is the combination of both depression and anxiety, however I have made him with claws and sharp antlers to represent a breakdown or state of mind in which an event has caused the individual to be release uncontrollable emotions.

Depression = dark blue

I don’t want to move

I can’t move

I don’t want to leave my bed

My body feels heavy

My limbs feel so heavy

I feel heavy like a bear

I can’t sleep

I can’t get to sleep

I don’t feel like me anymore

I can’t enjoy anything

I feel emotionless

Don’t look at me

Stop looking at me

I don’t want to do anything

I can’t think

I just want to sleep

I can’t control my emotions

I’ve lost control

I can’t stop eating

What’s the point

Why does everything irritate me

I can’t believe I did that

Make it stop

I need silence

Anxiety = orange

Make it stop

Everything is so loud

I need silence

I can’t think straight

I can’t sleep

Why won’t my thoughts shut up

Oh god, I have to so much to do

Don’t sleep through your alarm

I can’t believe I did that

I’m so shaky

I hope no one can tell

Why are people looking at me

Do I look okay

Is there something on my face

Something wrong with my hair

Am I acting abnormal

So many people

Have I forgotten something

I feel like I’ve forgotten something

Just breathe deeply

Don’t panic

Why did I just do that

Im such an idiot

Why am I like this

I hope I don’t mess up

I’m so pathetic

Why does everything irritate me

I feel so petty

I want to be alone

But I need company

I don’t want to go outside

I feel constantly on edge

I feel skittish like a deer

I don’t want to leave my room

My head is spinning

No one likes me

Beast = dark green (mental breakdown)

I can’t control myself!

There’s too much happening!

My head won’t stop spinning!

I can’t control my emotions!

I’m so angry!

I can’t stop crying!

I can’t do this anymore!

Too much sound! I can’t think!

Just get up!

Stop being lazy!

Just do it!

Just leave me alone!

Hate being alone!

Stop being like this!

I just want silence!

I need my space!

Sound Production

(disclaimer: the date and time were of the screenshots not the work as I had forgotten to do them during)

To begin with I had to create a new multitrack session and add the ambient background noise and the voice over I recorded on Audacity.

Then I had to listen through the dialog to check for any mistakes and cut them out.

This is when I cut a piece out I had to drag it all together to make sure there wasn't too long a gap between speaking.

I then added an effect to the dialog to make it seem like it was more of an internal voice rather than external.

Here are the original Raw files before I added them. 

Playlist

Raw Beast

Raw Stag

Raw Bear

Sound Examples

I sadly find it very hard to describe how I want the sound piece of this project to sound like, as I need the dialog to sound like it's coming from the audiences conscience or it's the thoughts of someone with the mental condition. 

Here are some examples of what I intend the voices to sound like.

Or something similar.

When looking for ambient noises I came across this nice car ride like sound which when turned down and placed behind voiceover, worked really well.

Tunnel

Sound Finals

Here are the final versions of my three sound pieces and there playlist.

Playlist

Beast

Stag

Bear

Final Piece of Sound

After listening too my sound once I had finished splicing the narration and putting it into place, I had decided to try and add more folly sound as the project mostly consisted of atmospheric sounds, such as the howling wind.

Before I added any more sounds, I created a master fader and corrected the volume on the sounds so they weren't going over -10db. After some compressors we bounced the tracks to create the two final pieces, one with narration and one with out.

As recommended I listened to my sound piece and marked all the points that I could add folly sound too.
With the sounds I had already collected I tried to create the sounds I needed, being rippling grass, door opening, some footsteps, someone going down a ladder, someone falling onto floorboards (thud).

Unfortunately I was unable to distort the sounds to a believable degree and didn't have enough time to record anymore sounds. However the final piece is still good but it just needed that little bit more to be better. There are also certain noises that are too loud and I had to compress them so the sound didn't reach over -10db. However I feel that the compressor has effected my sound, muffled/distorted it in a way. To me it's quite noticeable but I'm not sure if it's as bad as I think.

Final with Narration

Final Without Narration

Auxiliary Tracks

Auxiliary tracks are essentially and extra track to put effects on and be able to control them without effecting the original track and being able to distort multiple track at one time, in the same way.

Creating a new track and selecting Aux I/O will create a new clean auxiliary track. Selecting inserts, such as reverb, on the auxiliary track will keep your other tracks normal till you wish for it to spill into the chosen tracks.

Notes:
Compressor/Limiter insert is very good for audio with a large range (use subtly).

Third Professional Sound Lesson

We were taught these:

Bassy sounds = Omnidirectional

High sounds = Easy to locate

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Narration

After recording my narration for my project and listening to the sounds I have collected, Harry (the tutor) decided that I should find some narration that fits my sounds. 

With some help from Charlie, she suggested Wizard of Oz.

So this is now my new narration. 

[From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm. There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.

Suddenly Uncle Henry stood up.

"There's a cyclone coming, Em," he called to his wife. "I'll go look after the stock." Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.

Aunt Em dropped her work and came to the door. One glance told her of the danger close at hand.

"Quick, Dorothy!" she screamed. "Run for the cellar!"

Toto jumped out of Dorothy's arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto at last and started to follow her aunt. When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.

Then a strange thing happened.

The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air.] 

Protools Notes

When creating a new session in the ProTools select these settings:

Audio file type: BWF (.WAV)

Sample Rate: 48kHz

Bit Depth: 16 bit

I/O setting: Stereo mix

tick Interleaved 

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Wednesday recording Session

On Wednesday 1st October I used the recording booth with my friends to record our narration put of the project.

Songs for Sound project

Reading through my pieces of text, it refers to multiple songs that are playing in the background of the party.

Book Clippings

The Book I'm using is Bioshock: Rapture page 389, which describes a New Year's eve in 1958 in an underwater city when an ambush makes their way in to destroy the party. 

Sound Notes 1

Sound workshop

Radio plays:

-War of the Worlds (1938)
-BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1978)
     - Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy
-The Truth Podcast - interns
     -There made of meat (2014)

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Sound Assignment

-Pick a short 30s - 1min piece of text
-Create a soundscape to the chosen text and use
     -reverb, cutting, pitch shift, reverse, distortion only
- We will play the back in the class to Discuss
     -mood, pace, location...