- Concept
What is the sound of summer? It is the sound of eating cold noodles in “Family of Thieves”, the sound of swimming in “The Blue Door”, the sound of fish breathing away from the water in “Call Me by Your Name”, and the sound of burping after drinking your own brewed rice wine in “Little Forest”.
The sprinkler truck plays a unique sound while sprinkling water, fading away, and occasionally the sound of passersby reminding and exclaiming. Summer in early China is all about the hot sunny afternoons when the adults are taking a lunch break and the children are sitting on small benches in the shade in front of the house reading novels. Summer is the sound of traveling luggage wheels and airplanes, the sound of drinking water, the sound of the ocean, the sound of air conditioning, the sound of watermelons cracking, the sound of ice cream melting, the sound of parting feet during graduation season, and the sound of soda cans being opened countless times. Summer also has the sultry sound of cicadas and the sound of friends laughing.
Summertime is the fastest time to get up and get dressed, summertime is the happiest time to eat watermelon, summertime is the freest time to drink cold beer more often, summertime is the time to sweat more naturally, summertime is the time for boys and girls to dress more handsomely and beautifully, summertime is the time to play outside until later, and summertime is rich in sound. You can experience sweetness, pain, sorrow, youth, coolness, crush, loneliness, dryness, sunshine, rivers, skin, waist nests, flowing tree shadows, the most fleeting sense of happiness, and the longest afterglow, looming death when it reaches its peak, everyone has a summertime in their lives.
2. Process
I used the noise gate to reduce all the background noise to raise the sound quality. In the first layer, I use the raining sound to create the summer atmosphere. Then, I record the white noise of the cabin in the subway and lower the volume of this layer to put in the first as the sound of thunder and lightning.
Also, I used the sound of A4 paper fans, the sound of opening cans, the sound of bicycle bells, and the sound of knocking on the handrails of stairs. I used the sound of the elevator in the mall to mimic the sound of the summer airport’s announcement of boarding as well and used the sound of an old-fashioned radio to adjust it to achieve the effect I wanted.
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3. Conclusion
There are several improvements that I have to make. First, the control of the volume should be improved. At some specific moment, the volume of the whole part is too high and not that balanced. Second, more effects can be tried to make magic. Also, the use of the bell sound and swallowing sound could have been more natural.