Notes

Steven Schwarz

Film 116 Found Sound

2/13/2012

Found Sound

Of the sounds given to us to use, I worked with eight of them.

The rain played in the background very quietly and softly in a hi-fi environment. I faded it out in the end to make it seem as though the rain was clearing once you reached the church.

            I used the waves in the beginning to make is seem as though you were by the beach to start. They were not terribly hi-fi but still fit under the category of hi-fi because you could clearly hear them above all other ambient noise.  They in turn created the lower fidelity environment for the other sounds in the right channel because I panned that track to that side. It gives the illusion that you’re walking along the beach to the left.

            There were a few breaths recorded closely and in a hi-fi environment that I used to make it seem like the listener is the person hearing these things. It was very first-person-like.

             I used a recording of someone behind their dog in a skateboard. I used panning from left to right to make it seem as though they were moving across the listener while passing them. It was unfortunately recorded originally in a lo-fi environment.

            I used the birds chirping sounds in between the axe strikes to make it seem as though this person was outside on a peaceful day.  It is very clear what each sound is in the track making it a hi-fi environment once again.

            One of the few lo-fi tracks I had was the heavy base music playing in the distance. It was muffled enough to give the aural illusion of being outside of a beach party from a ways away.

            I did use the axe sound after the end of the party music to give the listener the idea of going from the beach to a more residential area. It was recorded in hi-fi.

I played the organ music in the end to move the person from one place to another. It was recorded in a low-fi environment making it sound as though it were coming from inside a church.