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Making Wave’s The art of Cinema Sound
“Sound affects us in a deep way, almost more than image does” (Watler Murch) Sound is one of, if not the most important aspects of our daily life. Making Waves showed me that sound is so natural to us that we the best sound design is one that you most often do not notices. We…
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Fahlenbrach: Emotions in Sound- Audiovisual Metaphors in the Sound design of Narrative Films
Sound and Sound Design theory according to Fahlenbrach- “Every time we percieve persons, objects, and spaces in audiovisual media, we are unconsciously guided by acoustic cues” (Fahlenbrach 2008) As Fahlenbrach tells us, no matter what we are watching we are always being guided by sound, wheter we realise it or not. Fahlenbrach empahsizes this claim…
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Maximising Mark’s for CUP 633
For CUP633 I will be writing an essay to reflect on the process of designing the sound for a scene from the A24 film ‘Hereditary’. I am hoping to gain the best mark possible using different planning and research techniques before actually writing the essay, I will then implement my unique way of writing into…
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Southampton Falls- Location Scouting
Before we started looking for potential locations we agreed on a few things our locations would need. One of the main factors we took into account for our story was the fact that it was a historic piece we knew we should find somewhere with history for our tale to take place. Taking this into…
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Immersive Audio-Importance of Sound
When creating a Geolocated story it is vital to take care in not only the dialogue, but the background noise as well. If your whole story is just dialogue between one or two people it is clear the audience will get bored easily after hearing the same voices going back and fourth, it will also…
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Immersive Geolocated Storytelling
Within the last decade we have seen storytelling evolve in ways no one could of imagined 30 plus years ago. With the development of smart phones people now have the chance to walk around anywhere, pull out their phone and be immersed in a story. Thanks to apps such as ECHOES, not only can anyone…
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Editing Process
I found my editing process slightly more difficult in this project than it usually would be due to the lock down and the university having to be closed, this is because i was using my home laptop which is quite old and slow, i also had to use a different software that i am not…
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Tradition of Documentaries
Documentaries have had a very similar structure throughout history. The majority of the time documentary makers have used a combination of interviews and ‘B roll’ footage to make an effective and educational film. B roll footage is footage of the topic that is the documentary is about that prevents the viewer from only seeing floating…
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Importance of Research
Research is one of, if not the most important factors in creating a documentary. Without research it is impossible to maintain accuracy throughout the documentary. Before a documentary is made a great amount of research is needed, if research is not done then you will struggle to talk about the topic and you may even…
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Audio Group Work
For our first group work on our Uni course we were put into a group or three to start of with, however another person was then added. As it was towards the start of our course we did not know each other very well and had barely spoken. As we were making a podcast together…
Editing by tom baker 