Sound Blog Post

My sound project is a production of solely audio, taking just over a minute and a half to tell a story. The story told by my production begins with a character walking outside, in a city environment. The story continues with the character walking into a coffee shop and ordering a drink. The drink is then being made.

The outline used when creating this project:  Soundscape Planning Outline

This production was split into two phases: finding the sounds to use for this project, and editing the sounds together. When finding the sounds to use in this production, me and my partner first created an outline of every sound we wanted to include in our project. Once this was decided, we found sounds to use this project in two different ways: creating our own sounds and using sound databases. We used Foley techniques to create some of the sounds in this project(foley videos can be accessed here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tTNaT06XvqTJMcXCMJP0y6gMEi3bow1V/view?usp=drive_link). We also used sound databases, to find the rest of the sounds in our production.

Once we had collected all the sounds to use in the video, the editing process began. We used Adobe Premiere Pro to create this video. To create a realistic soundscape, many pieces of audio were layered over each other throughout the entire video. Another technique used was the use of environmental sound. For instance, during the beginning portion of the project, sounds such as cars driving, ambulances sounding, and construction sounds were used to create the ambiance of a busy city. This allows the production to sound realistic, as if the listener was actually walking through a city.

The final project can be accessed here:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cIMOccPYfp3fw6aeqbSg8CBRQsvn5nH9/view?usp=drive_link 

Camera Shots Quiz Analysis

 This project requires that our story is told in 15 shots, and it must include different shot compositions, such as an establishing shot, a long shot, a medium shot, or a close up shot. Once the story was complete it was to be uploaded into a Powerpoint and each image would have a short analysis. 

My partner, Aggie, and I were able to develop our final product by using two inanimate objects, in our case we used markers, to represent the complexity of human emotions.

I was able to effectively tell my story while following the instructions of the project, but my shot composition could be improved. For example, I can improve on capturing an Extreme Close Up, as I have learned it should only show one aspect of a subject.

shots quiz.pptx

Introduction Post

 My name is Lucia. I am creating this blog to document my journey throughout the my AICE Media Studies class. This blog will be used for any future projects made in the school year.