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Week 8 in Sound for Screen

Jessica had replied to me and seems that she likes the idea but it would be better to just include 3 themes instead of 4 as that would take extra time on that and the quality of all the themes would drop. Therefore, I decided not to do the cyberpunk theme which includes music and dramatic sound designs that take ages to complete.

Last week I have done most of the recordings and found the sound effects for the themes. It was fun and in my opinion, quite chaotic but in a good way. I feel like I am actually messing up with the assignment rather than doing this in a usual way. Normally, I should have a list for the sounds I need so that I can record the sounds more effectively in terms of time and quality, but I think it will take a lot time to do this (an excuse for being lazy) and I already have ideas on what to record so I am mostly improvising during the recording session. Although it was messy but I was able to record what I want. I believe improvising is actually better than repeating the same scene over and over again especially in the beatboxing theme. Since I have no experience in beatboxing (I cannot even do a water drop sound), I think it would be better for me to just keep repeating the same sound than edit and sync them. And so I didn’t even look at the screen and following the scenes to mimic the sounds but just keep repeating the sounds I needed. Have a listen to one of the takes during the recording:

I guess I will spend most of the time in the beatboxing theme as I takes time to select , while the other themes are mainly using sound effects. I might need to do some extra recordings or sound effects of ambience as for now I have only one so far.

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