Audio

 Hi! Honestly, this week has felt like a fever dream. I have been super sick for the past few days so I didn't go to school and literally just rotted in my bed for two days straight. Today I finally went back to school but the day literally felt so short it was so weird. I even had to take 2 tests today, one for math, and one for Spanish, and they completely flew by. This week has been so weird but honestly, I'm living for it, I think every week should feel like this. Anyway, enough about my life, today in this blog I'm going to discuss the type of sound and audio I want to implement into my project.

First, I want to talk about how sound can impact a scene. Sound can do many things for a scene or entire film but I want to talk about the main things it can do. 

Sound can give a scene dimension, meaning it can add more background and realism to what you're watching, also making it more entertaining for the viewer simply because there is no silence, even if the average viewer thinks there is. Another thing that sound does is give a scene an emotional impact. Sounds such as music can give a certain tone to a scene that wouldn't be conveyed without the music. For example, a sad type of music could be played during a character's death, or more upbeat music can convey a happier kind of tone. Audio also can drive a character's personality, helping develop the audience's perception of what they see the character as. The last two go hand in hand, complimenting visuals and assisting a viewer's perception. They go together because complimenting visuals ultimately ends up helping the viewer's perception. Say there is a scene in the forest, sounds of wind, leaves, animals, and more would be added which lets the viewers perceive and understand the location way better.

Now onto the fun part, how I'll use sound in my project!

We want our opening scene to start with a clip of a news reporter. For this, it will pretty much be silent besides the reporter's voice because normally, these reports use microphones to only pick up on their voice so they are clearly heard by their viewers. I will add diegetic sound, though it'll be very minimal to capture the actual feeling of watching the news.

The scene will then cut to a home, having a close-up of coffee pouring. This scene will have lots of diegetic and synchronous sounds. Obviously, the audience will hear the coffee pouring, along with the new reporter in the background, birds, talking, and any sounds you would normally hear in a home. You will hear the news reporter talking because the scene then cuts to a girl on the couch watching the news. This basically provides more context to the viewer.

The scene cuts to the girl turning off the TV but that will have the same sounds just without the news reporter. So I'll skip past explaining that and go onto the next clip where the phone is ringing from her best friend. I might make the other sounds a bit quieter so the audience really focuses on the ringing from the phone, making it apparent to the audience that this is significant. When she answers, the background sound will still sound lower for the audience to focus on their voices rather than the background.

It'll then cut to the girl running out of her house. When she opens the door I want to make all the diegetic sounds louder to make it clear that she is now outside. Sounds such as birds, wind, leaves, cars, animals, etc.. will be louder as well as her fast-paced footsteps. For the footsteps, I think I will do foley in order to synch them up perfectly. I just think this would overall be easier than trying to speed up or slow down pre-made sounds.

It'll then cut to the title and credits, which will have the theme song which I want to represent the entirety of the movie as a whole rather than what you're just seeing. I'll have to look into sounds that are available to use, since I can't copyright anything. 

After, there's a cut to the two girls, Olivia and Lily talking. This will also focus on the voices, but the diegetic sounds will be louder since they are directly outside rather than inside and on the phone.

Thank you for reading and have the best day ever!