Soundscape Practice!

What's up buddies!

    In AICE media we learned about sound which was always something that interested me, but little did I know how insanely difficult it is to create an entire scene using only audio for both sounds projects we had to do. Before we did the sound projects, however, we learned all the different technical terms along with the reasoning behind different uses of sound. I learned what a soundscape is and all of the different parts that need to happen for it to be created. It was really interesting and I got to learn a little more about foley which was cool. Putting that knowledge into practice and making the foley was a lot more difficult than I imagined it would be though. 

    Sound project #1 was a such a blast. For this assignment, we had to create a soundscape where we used only sound effects to convey a scene that the listener could visualize. It was really difficult and challenging but in a fun way, like solving a puzzle. My partner Christina and I wanted to stay away from doing something uninteresting and bland so we opted to have our 1-2 minute soundscape be of a medieval wedding that gets crashed by a fire-breathing dragon that gets slain by knights. As one could imagine, this very fun concept was extremely difficult to bring to life only using audio and sound effects. It was a bit overwhelming at first but taking it step-by-step and slowly layering more and more sound effects in ClipChamp helped get the job done. 

    Sound project #2 was surprisingly a lot more difficult than sound project #1. For this assignment, we had to go back to our OWF film and create a soundscape for it. Although the concept for our OWF was significantly more grounded and less outlandish than a dragon crashing a medieval wedding, it brought new challenges. It felt much more limiting creating this soundscape as we had to use the video as a strict guide for what sounds had to be occurring at exact moments for an exact amount of time or else it would look completely wrong. Sound project #1 was a lot freer with expression and we controlled and could easily manipulate the storyline we were trying to follow. 

    I loved them both and learned a lot of value through the hardships I faced with each, but I think I might have a favorite.

Click Here for Sound Project #1 "Medieval Wedding/Dragon Soundscape"!

Click Here for Sound Project #2 "OWF Soundscape"!