First recording session 20/11/13

Mark Mullen

I booked out a Marantz and suggested we get together to finalise just a few of our ideas to start recording. As a group we seem to be working really well, with plenty of ideas and inspiration between us. The plan is to represent a students life in some way, at the moment we are working on sounds representing the morning struggle of a student. We have also made a decision to just concentrate on a students life rather than a student and non student life, as we felt two minutes wouldn’t be long enough.

We met up at the Shed and produced a list of sounds to record, We were thinking along the lines of;

  • A wake up alarm
  • Bathroom sounds
  • Preparing breakfast food
  • Doors opening and closing
  • And possible a phone call from a nagging mother figure, telling him to wake up from his pit!

We tried to keep it creative, like when recording the sound of spreading butter on toast, we ruffled the purple tinsel hanging on Adams Kitchen door. Overall we produced 30 recordings using a Marantz just around a student apartment. We will obviously record more sounds in different environments, but our way of thinking is to record everything and anything that inspires us on the day, as too many recordings are better than none when putting the best ones into our Sound Scape.

Overall we managed to complete our tasks/aims for that particular group meeting. We have a collection of different sounds and our ideas are constantly developing towards our final project.

Draft of morning piece 22/11/13

Adam Thraves

This a draft of what I have been experimenting with using Adobe Audition; it is a piece for the morning section of our soundscape. The piece will be cut down to suit for the rest of the soundscape, as we have to put in an afternoon and evening section in the space of 2 minutes.

This section shows the typical morning of a student.

 

Group presentation

Mark Mullen

For our presentation we have decided to separate into three different areas, to evenly share the responsibility. Oliver will be talking about the concept of the show, highlighting what aim to represent through sound, and how it differs from a non student life.

I will be discussing the aims, explaining to the audience what we are hoping to achieve by using this idea for a sound scape. e.g. to show the social side of a student, so the audience (students) can relate, show the contrast between student and non student life, and to relate to wider audience by representing non student life too.

Adam is going to talk about the sounds, discussing the types of sounds we will use for the morning, the day and the evening, including ideas for dialogue.  We will also include a final slide with our pictures on stating our contributions.

Our Idea

Mark Mullen

Our Idea for a Sound scape will represent the day of a typical university student. We will focus on the morning and on the evening,

The morning will include sounds you would relate to waking up e.g. alarms, a phone call of your mum, turning off the alarm and going back to bed etc…

The evening will play sounds of a night out/ festival e.g. loud music, crowds. And will represent a student being drunk and stumbling home.

We thought this was a good idea, and lets be honest we can relate ourselves all too well.