THA 342 - Sound Design
Radio Story Project
Voice of: Avalon Nelson
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In this project in sound design, we were asked to choose a poem or short story to record and create a soundscape for. This included recording the voice-over using any means we had available and then using Audacity to layer in sound effects. We recorded the voice using just a phone camera. I added a variety of sound effects of different types of bells to fit the lyrics of the poem; in addition, I added animal sounds such as birds chirping and owls screeching to add to the atmosphere.
Cinema Sound Project
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For one of the larger projects in THA 342, we were given short clips from a movie with the sound removed from it. We used QLab to play the video as well as sound effects that we added to the video. For my project, I chose to do a brief action/chase scene which ended in a large car crash.
I mixed all of the car sound effects using the built-in settings in QLab rather than pre-mixing them into one track in Audacity, but the car sequence included an ignition, shifting into drive, and then accelerating, in addition to a few more sound effects.
Other sound effects I chose included a fast-pace piece for background music and the sound of a man running on pavement.