1b Response

Playing around with sound in post production for project 1b was a lot of fun. I started out with a basic idea of how I wanted most of it to sound based off of the sentence, "To satisfy me, I need all." The concepts I got from that sentence had to do with contrast between being empty and being full. Going off of that I simply started finding small sound bites from the recordings and playing with them, trying to find out what things sounded good together and which didn't, as well as what things sounded good next to each other and which didn't. I also played with a lot of reversed sounds, slowing things down, speeding them up, and pitch changing. Early on I was a bit overwhelmed, especially with how many sounds we had as a class. Bit by bit though it started to build. I decided I wanted to work on mostly the full sounds, and rolled with that. Channing and I had talked about the concept we were shooting for and decided on working with our own sounds separately, then meeting up again and combining them in a way that worked for our vision. Somehow when we met back up, both of our edits sounded eerie and creepy almost. Hers was more minimalist, which I really liked since it complimented my edit and our concept as a whole. Looking back on it, our project almost sounded like it had some sort of story of story line, but that wasn’t what we were going for at all. The focus was on the contrast between the two ideas that related to the sentence. I thought ours came out sounding pretty good, but after listening to other group’s projects, ours could’ve been a little bit more abstract. Maybe if we had planned it out more, we could’ve had a more experimental project, but it’s really hard to plan out anything experimental in my opinion.