Sound Project

 Sound is used to compliment visuals in a film; it gives dimension and adds emotional emphasis. In this lesson, we learned all about sound, editing, and how it all works together to produce a film. Sound can be used in many different ways to develop the story, one way is through diegetic sound. Diegetic sound is any sound heard that comes from the narrative world on or offscreen. Examples of this are, typical environment sounds such as computer typing in an office setting. Non-Diegetic sounds are sound that do not belong in the characters world and draw emphasis to a specific action or moment. This can include, a narrator speaking, a theme song, stings, etc. 

Editing is also a method of story telling as it is a 'visual metaphor.' One method of editing that we learned that stuck out to me the most is symbolism. This is when shots are cut together to convey meaning. One big example of this is the shower scene in Psycho. Specifically the graphic match between the shower drain and the woman's eye. This moment signifies her life literally going down the drain as she slowly dies. Without this editing, the moment would not be as special in the scene. 

For this projected, we were directed to create 1-2 minutes scene and build the plot using only sound. We needed to create a detailed outline explaining the sounds that we will use to create our story. Then, use online tools to collect audios and edit the piece together as well as using 4 foley sounds of our choice. 

My partner and I, being inspired by Grey's Anatomy, decided to base our scene in a surgery room. During brainstorming we thought of different ways the scene could play out such as what was going to happen to the patient, what is being done to them, etc. In the end, we landed on the idea of them dying during heart surgery (dark, I know.) For the outline we split it up into 5 different parts, this way we knew when everything was happening chronologically. This helped us organize the sounds we would use by attaching the link to each sound to directly next to the sound description. Look at the image below for reference.

Once planning was done I decided to use the app 'Audio Editor' as it is relatively easy to use and I have previous experience working with it. However, this for me was definitely the most challenging part of the whole process. Although, I do think in the end my partner and I did a good job editing it was definitely a struggle for me and something I would like improvement on. Overall, my partner and I worked very well together to create this scene and were able to build off of each others ideas but we could still both use some practice.

Sound Project.