Category: Year 2 Specialising: Sound for Screen

I don’t recall doing it earlier, so I’m going to run through what my project is, my proposal essentially. I know it is late but I thought it was worth discussing. I will also go over some of the final elements of this project. This is a follow up to a proposal I started on… Continue reading Finalising the Project.

Wednesday 15th November With the deadline a week away and my studio time 2 days before it, I have to put in some serious leg work to get the project wrapped up. I’ve rented out a H5 from the kit room with the intention of using it to record some audio. I also began using… Continue reading Working From Home.

Monday 13th November Just before the end of the project, I wanted to look at the media I was working with/inspired by and the people behind it. I found this video on YouTube where the Feature Composer Roque Baños and the Director Fede Alvarez discussed the sound design of the movie. Baños said “When I… Continue reading Context.

Monday 6th November This week, I am beginning to combine my projects. I decided to look at some Ableton features I never used before. When I was at the studio with Aparna, I discovered the samples tab which has some really diverse sounds. On the way home from that session, I decided to record the… Continue reading Making the score.

Tuesday 24th October I had to return the Ambeo and F4 to the kit room, so as I mentioned in the previous week, I decided to get some recordings done in the evening. Since the set up is quite tedious to carry around, I recorded at my house. First, I went to the end of… Continue reading Week 3: Recording.

Monday 16th October This week, we had to get ready to choose a film we were going to do foley for. Jessica had sent a list of movies, but I was interested in finding my own choice different from the ones shown. One I am drawn to is American Psycho (2000), but after reviewing the… Continue reading Week 3: Choosing a Movie.

Tuesday 10th October I had fallen sick this week so I couldn’t attend class. In the time I had used a recorder to document one of my days while at home. I went and sat on my balcony (with my cat) to Record some ambience and also a response to a task set out by… Continue reading Week 2: Sick.

Tuesday 3rd October In the first lesson back for spatialisation, Ingrid walked through the element as well as, some info on the second year. I wasn’t certain about picking spatialisation at first, but after the first session I was happy with my choice. This was mainly due to the piece we looked at (well, heard)… Continue reading Week 1: Spatialisation.

Monday 9th October This week, we looked at the opening to We Need To Talk About Kevin, in particular, the opening and creating a foley track for it. After a briefing from Jessica, we watched the clip, but then we went into the foley lab with Rory to learn how to set up and utilise… Continue reading Week 2: We Need To Talk About Kevin.

Monday 2nd October Finally back in university after the holidays, my first class was in the sound for screen specialisation taught by Jessica Marlowe. I chose this as I believe I have a vivid history, or at least a liking for on screen entertainment such as video games and tv shows. In the class, we… Continue reading Week 1: Surroundings.