Sound Story Project

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    At the beginning, we have been asked to make small, less than one-minute videos with different camera movements, transitions, and angles. As of late however, we were told to make a sound story, only using sounds to help tell a story or scene. This was an exciting, yet difficult project to do. We were put into groups and were asked to only create sounds to tell a story. 

Final Project:
https://youtu.be/A6OP_jIifM0
My group has decided to create the ending moments of shopping in a mall, which is basically walking out the mall and hearing your surroundings. Most sounds were created within our nearby mall, such as the sound of an escalator and crowds. It was very fun to think of ways to create these different sounds, but as we filmed, we were getting stares so we tried to do it very discrete. I felt as if maybe we could have emphasis more on the subject, which was a person shopping. Otherwise, I felt the my group did a good job establishing the setting and the main aspects of the setting.


Foley:
https://youtu.be/OJaA2F48hWo
This video is basically the "behind the scenes" of the final piece. Not only did we record within the mall, but we had also recorded separately in our own homes to emphasize on certain sounds, for example the walking. We wished that we could have captured more but it was difficult to get together due to the incoming hurricane.


 Nonetheless, the project was fun to do, not only because I was able to work with my friends, but I was able to explore my artistic vision through the use of sound. As we listened to our peers' projects, we had learned ways to improve our own project and improve our story telling. 

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