Sound Project

We were also given a sound project to do. A thirty second clip based around sound. As that is the important aspect of the project, we decided from the offset to concentrate on that and just use a still image for the thirty seconds. Wanting to create a contrast and disorientate the viewers, make them thinking about the sounds we chose a tranquil reflection photograph shot while out on location. Then we recorded lots of sounds you’d usually find in the city and just several that we heard near the place we made the stills.

The sounds we recorded (as it‘s still based on transitional spaces) were:-

A van that was moving things, creating loud, banging sounds
Leaves crunching under foot in the park
Joggers in the same park
Ducks
The waterfall area on the river
A cleaner set up by the river
Traffic on the road above the river, next to the park
People talking, walking beneath a canal bridge, echoes
Footsteps
A dog walking through grass

Using nearly all of these (not the dog walking through grass as the sound had talking on it) we created a soundscape that contrasted the photograph, barring two sounds. But the layering of typically city and urban sounds with these created the desired effect. When we showed it to the group the feedback we got was that the waterfall sounded too much like static, but we had considered that at the time.

The video is to follow.