Editing

During the editing stages of this project, both Hannah and I took on the editing role, taking it in turns to edit and having a fresh eye on the project. This meant that once of us had edited a section then we would both listen and suggest ways of improving it.

Here is a screen shot of the first segment as we were laying down the basic tracks that we wants in our overall project. As we were having a ‘Ticking’ noise throughout we decided to first lay these down the gradually go through and layer up the other sounds.

To make it easier to follow, we decided to colour code our tracks. We coloured them in relation to the colour on the sound plan. The Pink was the continuous ‘Clicking’, the Orange was the continuous rains sounds, the Yellow was the speech and the green were the other sound effects that we wanted to use. This made it a lot easier when looking for a certain track to edit.

We placed each of the separate effects on a separate track in Soundtrack Pro. This was so that if we were to add an effect or changed the sound or direction then this wouldn’t affect any other sounds.

Sound Plan + Call Sheet

When trying to organise our track that we had recorded we came up with a sound plan. This then gave us a basic outline as to what we wanted from our project and helped us through the editing process. In order to organise it we colour coded the different types of sounds that we were having in our piece. Such as the speech Yellow, atmospheric sounds of the rain were Orange, continuous foley recording of ticking was Pink then the other sounds green.

Here is the copy of our call sheet that we used for our production. 

Produciton

While recording our tracks we used Dynamic microphones, Riffle mic and Hydro-mic. This meant that we were able to capture a wide range of sounds to edit together to create out final piece. Here is the draft for our script and the sound log following our recording.

Dear Journal ...

When trying to think of inspiration for our piece and the style in which we wanted our narrative to say through our piece i remembered Glee. throughout the series they have a character, Sue Sylvester, write in her journal and you hear her thoughts as she is writing it. Here a copy of some of her entries:

(http://cliqueclack.com/tv/2009/10/08/the-unpublished-journal-of-sue-sylvester/)

When Hannah and I read over some of here entries, it inspired us into how we wanted our. We, like Sue's, wanted our entries made up of very short sentences. This is so that they don't go into to much entail but get across what they mean, straight away. we also decided that we would have the narration speak as if she was speak in the past and writing her journal about what had happened, rather then as if she was speaking in the present. We also had a look at Clips from Danny Boyles film, 127 Hours.

This was inpirering as he used a camera to document his days stuck in the cannon. I found it helpful to watch as this was the sort of style that i pictured out narrative to be. Talking about the past.

Ideas Development

When Hannah and I met to develop our idea we discussed the basic outline as to what we wanted to achieve. This idea is that you hear a girl talk about her day as if she is reading our her journal. we used several examples that we had seen to help describe what we were both thinking of the piece.

We looked at an advert for orange that had been on TV recently. This advert is what helped me see the style of piece Hannah was explaining. i really liked the concept of the mans voice talking then in the background hearing, in this case seeing as well, what he is talking about. i helps you really listen and experience what he is talking about, not only by trying to imagine but it prompts you to all think the same and helps you create a clearer image in your mind. 

Tutorial

For our first tutorial both me and hannah didn't have a clear idea but had talked about our project experiment with "Time".

I really liked the idea of time as it is to manipulable and can create good effect with it. Hannah really liked the idea of time due to the fact is unknown and complex. During our tutorial Dom suggested that we figure out why time, what do we like about it and the rational for our ideas.

Initially we were thinking about manipulating time by slowing it down, maybe with a clock ticking increasing further and further between each tick. I think the whole concept of slowing time down is more relatable as we've all experienced moments when time seems to slow right down. practically thinking slowing things down would create a more clear senesce of space, if we were to make it feel like time is passing quickly we could loos the quality of the recording and end up confusing the listener. As long as we have a clear narrative and story to our piece it should be clear to follow, not just random recordings of clocks.

Tunnel Vision

By Pejk Malinovski 

The subject of this pieces were men talking about seeing girls on the tube and the amount of people they have had sex with. 

Tunnel Vision was a lot different to the other pieces that we listened to during our seminar. There is use of atmos ambient noise to create the sense of being on the tube underground. You can here a quiet beat form the train so this would suggest its not that busy. This could be due to the fact that some contributors wouldn’t openly talk about sex and looking at women on the tube, with people surrounding them.  You also get the illusion that the train was moving and they were travelling along the underground as near the end you hear the breaks screech. Indicating the end of that journey, and our journey into their mind and thoughts.

What made this piece feel really realistic was the fact that the mistakes in the voiceovers were not edited out. The ermm’s and arrh’s were left in which shows a more relaxed and casual feel to the piece, almost as if you were in a conversation with them yourself.  This almost implies that the men had to think carefully about what they were saying, almost embarrassed, making them seem that much more realistic to the listener.

Child of Ardoyne

Click here to listen to Child of Ardoyne

Produced by Alan Hall

This piece is the story told by the adults that were kids in the 1980's during 'The Troubles" and the children that  live there today. This give a contrast on what has changed in time regarding the fighting in rural Ireland. 

Unlike the previous piece, Meat Factory Ear Worms, this didn’t have the same personal sense about it as it was told from a group of people rather then an individual story. There was a range of elements used such as the use of speech, from pre-recorded sound bites and newly recorded interviews, and atmos for example the kids and cars in street. All these elements help create the sense of a space in Ardoyne. The voice over of the list of people and the age in which they were killed in Ardoyne highlights the realistic narrative within this piece, creating sympathy in the listener. As it is cut in between the recording of the villagers create the illusion that the lists is that much longer as it is broken down.

 They also use a wide range of contributors, i.e. young, old, male and female. This helps create a whole over view of the place, which is a different approach to the first piece, The Curious Ear, Meat Factory Earworms, as that was focused on one person’s opinions and views not a groups. I think they took this less individual approach due to the fact that they didn't want to tell the story from the one person and their experiences of 'the troubles' but instead the incidences that occurred in the entire town.

Curious Ear: Meat Factory Ear Worms

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Director: Richie Beirne 
Producer: Ronan Kelly. 

The narrative for this piece is the story of an Irish man who is stuck in his job at a meat factory who uses songs that get stuck in his head, Ear Worms, to keep him going through the day at work and escape.  

This piece is very authentic and personal, I really like the variety of different sounds layered up to create the different emotions, for example the use of speech, atmos, music and moments of silence. The uses of each of there elements all work together to create the overall feeling of the piece and with out one there wouldn’t be a continual narrative. Even the music was part of the narrative and not to just fill gaps and time. There is a lot of use of repetition throughout the piece indicating the repetitiveness of his days. 

There is really strong juxtaposition in this piece. Throughout you have the ambience of people working in the factory, machines working and the harsh sounds of knife being sharpened to build up the image of an unsavoury working environment. In Contrast to this you have his voice over as if you can hear him in your head, much like an ear worm, with his soft and warming voice and the romantic ballads.