SOUND EXPERIMENT: Foley Recording and Final Piece

FINAL SOUND PIECE

Okay so there is one thing I have realised while producing this blog post. I have accidentally handed in the wrong Sound experiment piece. The one above is my final piece, and the one I have handed in was the piece I had posted in my previous blog posts. So that was a stupid mistake to create. Moving on... 

On Thursday 27th March I had a chance to record in G21 (Foley Booth), and had the chance to experiment with many different sounds, in order to play around with my sound piece.

Foley Booth and some of the props used in the recording process.

It was a very successful lesson, in terms of expanding and experimenting with foley, even though I didn't use any of the sounds recorded in this session for this assignment. But the sounds did come in handy for my reflections assignment. 

I did use the sounds recorded on Wednesday 2nd April in room G23

Foley recording studio (G23)

This session was also very successful as I managed to record and experiment a lot for my assignment. 

During my time in room G23 I had shared the room with Andre and Diallo, in which Im grouped with for my reflections assignment. We needed some female dialogue for our reflection assignment, and I needed the same for my sound piece, so Diallo had found random female students in the room next door in which they where happy to help.    

Another recording session also took place outside. I had hired out a Roland recorder and a fish-pole, which helped me to capture better footstep sounds.

Another sound I wanted to capture was the natural sound of a Bee, which was hard to capture at first as every time I managed to get close they had the tendency to fly off. After several attempts I managed to capture the sound I needed. Even though I didn't get the chance to use this sound within my piece as it didn't fit well with the piece, I was still happy with the accomplishment, and instead managed to find some royalty free sound of Bees. 

After a few recording sessions I was now ready to put my piece all together. With the practice piece I had created, shown in my previously blog post, I had a better understanding of how my piece was going to be placed together and how to use the software. 

Overall I had found this assignment interesting as it was a good experience learning and recording different foley sounds. I believe I could have done a bit better with my sound piece as I had wanted the piece to be more vivid. Because there was some sounds that I could not capture, and could not find through royalty free recordings, I had to improvise which changed the perception of the story a little bit. Regarding the fact I had handed in the wrong sound piece I hope you take the time to listen to my real final sound piece posted in this blog.