Sound Project 5 - Improvements

After the crit me and Chris began to improve our project in the ways we had outlined, we rerecorded the voices this time using a pop shield in front of the mic to improve the quality of the recordings. Once we had gathered the voices we began to work on editing them together to improve the piece, while discussing how best to edit the piece we came up with the idea of having the sound track repeat itself similar to how Zbig Rybczynski’s experimental film Tango does.

 http://vimeo.com/21175765

I suggested having the repetition start midway through the sound track so that the character’s thoughts began overlapping and becoming more confusing, my idea for this was that the overlapping of the thoughts would be similar to how the individual worlds of the people on the bus overlap by them all being on the bus at the same time. Chris improved upon this idea by coming up with the idea that the repetitions should come from only one direction, for example the first set of thoughts are stereo sounds but the first set of repeated tracks come from the left speaker, the tracks then begin to alternate which side they come from until the final set which is once again stereo. Not only does this add to the confusion of the piece but it also serves to separate the thoughts while forcing the audience to pay more attention to one voice over the others.

We also decided to have the atmos track fade out near the end so that the paranoid character's lines have more impact and to emphasises the idea that while she is having those thoughts the bus has stopped and everyone else has gotten off.