Initial day of editing

Met up with Alex again today to start our editing into timeline. We've got started but there's a long way to go, we definately need to re-do the old sounds i collected, we could do with creating some more varied ones too so that we can layer them all up, it'll definatel improve the overall piece.

Heres a screencap of our editing start:

2nd Tutorial with Debbie

we've been editing our soundtrack and individual sounds all day because we had our second tutorial with Debbie to discuss this 3 minute audio project. Ideally, we were supposed to be playing a roughly edited audio track to her, but we are nowhere near being able to complete our timeline, there are so many missing sound effects that we need. Luckily, not that many people had been able to play their tracks either, which made us feel a little better. We were able to pitch our idea to her (even though its a little to late to change it now) and i was expecting her to still think the concept was fairly dull and uneventful. I was pleasantly surprised though, i think she liked the idea, we were even given a few extra ideas for broadening our range of sounds. Both of us have planned to record more sounds (mostly the ones we lost during my edit fail, but a few additional ones) tomorrow morning individually and then meet up to put all our sounds onto the timeline. Id still like to finish the project by tomorrow evening, but its looking like it may be another last minute finish..

More sounds

Ive recorded some more sounds today, pretty much all the sounds that i'd recorded before (and then lost!) and a few extra things to give the piece a bit more of a sense of space, footsteps and doors opening and closing for instance.

The Archers

As we seem to be creating some kind of slightly suspence-filled drama, I thought id look into the Archers on Radio 4.. Ive listened to a couple of episodes but Ive also searched for it on Youtube and found a really useful clip with their Studio manager Andrew Partington who creates the Spot effects for it.

For some reason, blogger doesnt want to allow me to upload the clip, so the link is below:

The Archers Sound Effects

You can really tell the difference when he plays the clips with and without sound effects, I didnt realise before how much of a difference it makes. I like how he creates sounds from objects completely different to the sound he's making, for instance the pillow that sounds like a bird.

Sound Layering

I like the first little section of this clip, they've layered their sounds which makes it seem more realistic, and they increase the volume of the song which makes the listener feel more involved in the scene, it sounds like we've just walked up to the door of a house-party.
Most of the rest of this piece, i really dont like, im not much of a fan of the narration and i think that a large portion of the successfulness of the use of narration pretty much hinges on what your automatic assumption of the narrator is. I automatically didnt like the guy thatstelling the story so i wasnt particularly interested to listen to the rest.

Dramatic Narrative

Since we seem to be creating a dramatic narrative project now, Ive had another look on youtube for similar ideas.

This piece is fairly similar, however i think with a little more sound layering they could have kept the audiences attention better, we have much less time to tell our story.. around halfway through the piece gets quite dull, especially near the end where there appears to be just a heap of musical 'filler'.