The Sound

Sound was always going to be something I had to be wary of in my piece. With three panels demanding attention, decisions had to be made about what parts needed more attention in certain places or how i was going to present the audio.


Previous plans had been to grab pieces of audio from the various clips that i had, and other clips that i could get for this sole purpose, grab segments of each and create my own message through the manipulation of pre-recorded audio, there were slight problems with this, the isolated sound that may not be loud enough to grab the audiences attention or even coincide with the idea of footage running against each other in a form of competition. I also found that some of the re-scribed footage that I had captured, with the audio being streamed into the camera from the computer, that some of the footage was out of sync and would therefore look odd if it were to be played on its own. It was a problem that had to be solved, and it wasn't until I'd played my test of the triptych with all its audio and listened to all 3 audio pieces being played at once, that I decided I liked the muffled sound that were spewing out of the speakers, overwhelming the audience with the whole sound and footage constantly changing.


Like many things in my project, this decision had to have a meaning, if i were to create a piece and have various lines of audio running at the same time to make an incoherent sound of people talking over each other, there had to be something behind it. 


In the world there are many religions, all saying the same things, be a good person, do good things for others, help each other, and don't kill each other. They all seem like the basic morals of a human being, but like many things where there is more than one found in the same area, all religions are crying for their voice and their beliefs to be heard, some a little more drastic in being heard than others.


In technology things are constantly competing to be bought, celebrities are constantly competing to be liked, and will slander against any other if that raises their popularity or at least destroy the competition, and of course football fans want to put across, time and time again, why their team is better than any other.


It all seems like a constant race to be heard, and to finally sway people in to thinking you're right. It's this that i wanted to put across in the audio. This idea that everything is trying to get your attention, and in doing so there is just this constant uproar of voices, singing and so on.


With the use of adobe audition to make the mix downs of the sound clips from the celebrity footage, or the TV footage, or the football footage, I managed to make a sound of constant chatter, constant noise, and constant need to be heard, though some channels may overpower others on occasion, I found that with this type of audio, through getting other students to listen to it, that the audience can in fact zone in and out of sides, they can listen to some of the TV if they so pleased, or even the celebrity parts.


It took various attempts at adjusting the sound in order to get the levels right I found that after a few play backs that the TV part of the sound seemed to be overwhelming other parts of the audio with its music etc, but having it on adobe audition in separate clips then as a whole as a mix-down, it made adjusting the levels a lot easier than attempting to do so in adobe premiere.