New Exciting Thought-Out Ideas
How a Homeless Person hears London
Survival Sounds
Capture the sounds of Poverty
- Coins/Change in Pockets
- Money Transactions for example Apple Pay & Bank Withdrawals
Capture the sounds off Hunger
- People Eating
- Food Being Made
Though Arrangement
The sounds of London for example are the traffic and people that I want to betray in an overwhelming state transitioned into an enhanced survival state focusing on sounds or poverty and hunger and the traffic and people becoming background noise.
Create Emotion
Enhancing sounds of survival portrayed though instinct and the ears of hunting. Manipulating sound in slow motion and sound designing the effect of enhanced hearing in the chaos of the streets of London.
Critically Listening Expanding My Imagination For Improvement
From critical listening to my project I have come up with a list of spotting notes of new ideas to include for a more successful outcome.
Foley
I have set up my microphone and gathered coins for this experiment.
I attempted to create the illusion in the struggle of homelessness that to survive there ears have adapted to be able to hear coins in the pockets of people who walk past with chaotic traffic drowned out.
Logic Analysis
Firstly I made a new project alternative therefore I can freely experiment with the option to return if extermination fails.
I loop recorded my foley of coins against the sound effect of walking which I found online.
I reverberated both sounds for dramatic effect.
Automation
Using volume automation I am fading between a more EQ duplicate track I made of the field recording which is meant to alive the sound of more drowned out traffic effect.
Panning
Using panning automation I am creating the illusion of movement (walking with coins rustling).
Composition
Using alchemy I found an intense sound effect that creates the feeling of enhanced listening and listening with adrenaline.
Experimental Outcome
I am happy I made an idea in my head come to life, I used a range of methods, from my knowledge and skillset to achieve this outcome however its not the sound I had in my imagination and I am not happy with its outcome.
I can create more power with progressive volume automation for the composition. I need to change the footsteps they sound to indoors. Change the way I am recording the coins or find a way to edit them or record another sound to layer it to create the idea in my imagination. I want realism.
Improvement
‘Lock On Sound’
I wanted to create the feeling of enhanced hearing and successfully did using alchemy. The added ambience creates a feeling of place which is needed soundscape.
Kick
I used ultra drum beat to find a kick, I used EQ to remove the high end, leaving just the low end to layer with the footsteps creating dramatic effect.
I got the idea from a member of our group from sharing my work and asking for feedback.
Syncing the kick to the footsteps was a long process however a great addition.
Footsteps
I changed the footsteps to ‘concrete footsteps’ therefore the indoor effect has gone. I had to boost the EQ for the footsteps to be heard better in playback though speakers.
Coins
I have foley recorded coins in a leather glasses bag to create the sound of coins in a person pockets. Using splits and zoom tool I managed to sync all splits perfectly.
I used space designer reverb to bring emphasise the the sound ands to its importance to coins from a homeless person perspective.
Automation
The audio has been panned left to right bringing awareness to the listener and bringing movement to the piece.
‘Instinctively Hearing Coins’
I have been creatively experimenting, bringing my imagination to life. Fixing the pervious mistakes and I am really happy and satisfied with the outcome.