A.Concept
I chose my highschool life as the memory for this assignment. After entering college, I found it quite different from my routines in high school. I like my life with fewer regulations now, but I miss my classmates and friends badly. In college I don’t have to stay in one class and be a member of it for three years like that in high school. However, I love the time when I was studying hard with all my classmates and had fun with them even in the busiest year of senior 3. I’d like to convey some sounds in my daily life back to my highschool time and also my feelings when I was with my classmates. I found sources of sounds that could implicate my busy routine and also my pleasure when playing with my classmates and tried to put them in a certain order.
B.Process
(1) In the beginning of my audio, I placed a sound of opening the door and rushing out of the room to show the busy start of a usual day in my high school and I used sounds of opening books and playing table tennis to indicate my learning and playing process with friends. At last I had a sound of running with my luggage, which means I graduated from my highschool and went towards college. I tried to record some of the voices outdoors but I found that the noise was so loud outside. So I turned to indoors recording where the noise is not so loud. And I also noticed that using a shotgun helps to reduce the noise in the background. Besides, I used some items that were easy to create clear sounds in order to make sure the quality of sounds.
(2)When I was editing the sound, it was hard for me to understand how to use the effects in Adobe Audition. But after asking my professor, I learned how to use noise reduction effectively and the noise of my sound resources was reduced hugely. Besides, I was also troubled by how to convey my feelings through the sounds. I didn’t make it at last but personally I know my sound would not make the audience clear about the busy and fun high school life that I want to describe. I tried to use effects but they didn’t work very well in showing my feelings.
C.Conclusion
I would have checked the sound level of my audio before the final critic. I will adjust the sound level and edit my sound to better convey my feelings. Maybe I have to edit sounds into different frequencies and have some sounds that can catch the audience’s attention. The sound was only a combination of all the sounds that I’ve collected, which cannot convey the feelings directly. So I have to add more feelings and emotions into my project if I had more time.
D.Image of audition
This is a screenshot of my audition.
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