CC1 Week 4

The sound scape was the easy part of the assignment. I went on with the idea that i would create an eerie sound. What i was trying to do was create the image that someone is walking on gravel at night very quickly, as if getting way from something they don't know exists, but can feel its presence. They are walking to their house on a horrible, windy, thunderous night. They enter the house and hide away hearing all the noises outside build and become louder. The thunder becomes louder and more prominent. Amongst all these natural sounds are a few unfamiliar sounds their fear stricken mind in imagining these sounds, they start hearing things that are not actually there. Eventually all the sounds fade away and evidently their imagined fear fades away, however these thoughts are still there waiting to come back again and in the fear they created.
View this photo at http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/d/PaperScore1.jpg (I apologise about the resolution of the photo) i will post a higher resolution photo shortly)
The score was the part of this assignment that took the longest to design. In the end I settled on fairly simple ideas, but in no means easy to actually create. I used Photoshop in this assignment not for the effects it offers (which i didn't use), but for the convenience of it. I took four photos which would, through positioning, represent the sounds used in the sound scape.

The scrunching at the beginning is the gravel footsteps, the higher scrunch is the door (the sound was originally a scrunch, but pitch shifted up). The rumbling is twisting the paper slowed down, so I used the photos of a piece of paper twisted one way, then the other. The rest of the sounds are quite obvious what i have done. If there was a loud sound, i duplicated the image. At one point i sped up and slowed down a sound, this i used a picture simply moving up then down.

So my score not only indicates when to play, but also how to do the action itself. The score is descriptive, not prescriptive.

Finally i would like to add that for rubbing the paper i used my hand on the paper. I understand that this is not purely using the paper itself, but the paper is the focal object, not the hand. The hand is merely a tool used with it, so i believe that this does not compromise the assignment. I did think of other ways of representing rubbing (i.e. placing two pieces of paper over each other), but i didn't think that these ways were as descriptive as the hand on paper.

Overall, an interesting assignment. But the score was very frustrating to create.

Check out the Sound scape mp3 athttp://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/z/SoundscapePaper.mp3

Check out the ProTools sequence at http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/z/Picture3.png