Act I: Recording Sound

Long gone are the days where I sit on the computer searching for sound effects! Is it strange that I never actually realized that I should just go and make my own and stop taking from others?

In my sound design class on Friday we learned how to use the DARs from the equipment room. I wish we could have used those for this project. I think at some point I'm just going to go crazy and record tons of sounds. Then one day I'll have a huge stockpile of random sound effects that I will never have to use poor mp3 tracks that were downloaded off a website. Maybe I'll share, that would be nice of me.

I learned from assignment #1A that adjusting levels is more difficult than I expected. I learned that you really can hear a fridge in the background from the other room. I learned that I should use hand signals instead of my voice to cue your sound maker. I learned that once I know what a sound is, I am completely unable to think of it as anything else. For example, since I know what my group's sounds were, I'm not able to think of the fridge door shaking as the interior of a moving train, it's just the fridge door shaking. Along those same lines:

Dear Group Who's-Tape-Log-Claims-That-You-Recorded-The-Sound-Of-Someone-Eating-Chips,

The sound of someone eating chips? No, that is the sound of death.

My ears told me so.

Thanks,

M.