Sense of Space - Idea Two

Idea two is called "Sheffield Sirens" and features all the different sounds available to hear whilst living in Sheffield. here is a script for the main voice over which will be the main focus four our sound scape with various ambient noises added in to the silent sections.

Sheffield Sirens: Script (Draft)
SIRENS…
It’s 3:30am, and that’s the 4th Ambulance siren to wake me
up tonight. It happens every night – siren here, siren there. It’s far too
annoying.
Sheffield is always loud. No matter what the time, you’ll find
somewhere full of life. Whether it be in the day, when everyone is shopping in
town….
[Pause]
Or at night, when all the students come out to play and sleep in the
road. I can’t say anything; I’ve been one of them.
[Pause]
Even though I’m a student, it’s still sometimes nice to get away to a
quiet place, where you can just rest, listen to nature, just be with
yourself.
[Fades to Silence]
[Sirens fade in]
Ah, the famous Sheffield Sirens again, early morning again, lack of
sleep… AGAIN! I really wonder what accidents occur at this
time…
[Silence?]
[Background Noise – Friends asking you to come
out]
Go out to a nightclub? Should I? Hah, maybe this time the sirens
won’t even wake me!
[Club Ambience]
My friends and I went to our favorite club; it’s been ages since
we’ve done this. I miss just being with him, but hell, clubs are busy, you bump
into so many people, and sometimes you get the wrong
person.
[Background noise – club/guy shouting angrily at you for bumping into
him]
I was having a nice night with my friends and didn’t want any
trouble, so we ignored the guy and walked away – which only made him madder. He
grabbed his drink, walked towards me and…
[Music Stops]
[Bottle Smashes]
[Silence]
[Sirens]
Now I know what accidents occur at this time. This time the sirens
are my fault. I’m the one waking you, annoying you whilst you try to
sleep.
[Sirens fade out]

Sense of Space - Idea one

Idea one is all based upon the sounds and noises heard when undertaking a normal "morning daily routine". this could be easily achieved as within my pair myself and Natalie could record the noises all at ease within one of our bedrooms and so would be able to try and make the sounds as effective as possible.

Basic Outline

The Morning routine itself would include waking up by an alarm noise which would be turned off and which would then turn into the radio of a man/woman speaking saying something along the lines of "good morning Sheffield, its 730am and its a beautiful sunny day..." so the audience know that its the morning. The remaining sounds in this piece would be to have the radio playing throughout most of the piece itself and then to have other morning routine noises occurring over the top, these include:
-Sheets rustling as getting out of bed
-Tap noises/cleaning teeth
-Shower
-Toaster popping up and scraping butter on to it
-Deodorant being sprayed
-Files being dropped onto desk
-The computer of "windows" turning on
-The noise of fingers beginning to type

-Radio noise fades out.

This will be easy to do and I think if recorded correctly it could sound really effective as a sound scape piece overall.

Sense of Space - Piece four

Piece Five - The Sound of Sport
By - Dennis Baxter

As soon as this piece begins, you know its about sport as you hear the commentator's voice slowly coming in, and followed by various other sport related ambient noises such as a tennis ball being hit from racket to racket, a klaxon being sounded at the beginning of an athletics race etc. I really likes how they were faded into each other as was almost like a "highlights of the Olympics" and gave you a snippet of each sport.

Whilst the sporting sound effects were occurring, there was also a slow piece of mellow music in the background. I liked the way this was used as it helped create the dramatic tension that there is in say an Olympic final and made me feel like I was there watching the sports myself and so therefore created a very good sense of space.

We only listened to the first minute or so of this piece as it was quite long, but from the opening minute, it immediately drew me into the piece and made me visit Falling Tree Productions and listen to the rest of the piece.

Sense of Space - Piece Three

Piece Three - Jarman's Garden
By - Sherre Delys
Year - 2000
Length - 14 mins 49 secs

This piece was very confusing to listen to, yet inspiring at the same time. The way this sound scape had been built up and constructed was very clever as there were around 7 different layers of sounds occurring at any one time. Various noises associated with outdoors and garden such as peoples footsteps in gravel/pebbles, wind chimes, the wind itself, plants/trees/grass being cut/altered with etc. These were all occurring one after the other with both a low deep base piece of music and a high one, so with all this going on at once, it was hard to focus on the narrative of the piece as the voice over wasn't the thing that came to my immediate attention like it did in the other pieces.

Within the piece (with it being nearly 15 minutes) there are many places in which the sound effects fade out and there are a few seconds of silence and you think the piece has finished, then the noises would slowly start again. I like this technique used and found it effective as to me, it felt like the few seconds of silence were representing how peaceful and tranquil this garden is to be in and when your there everything disappears and it simply is silent.

The ending of the piece was my favourite part overall. the slow rustle of the waves and the slow paced footsteps in the pebble dashed beach really made me feel peaceful and calm and felt like I was sitting in this garden and looking towards this beach.

Sence of Space - Piece Two

Piece two - Tunnell Vision
By - Pejk Malinovski
Year - 2001
Length - 5 mins

I very much enjoyed this piece the most out of all the pieces I had listened to purely because of the humour side it had to it. It was really easy to listen to and had a very clear structure which consisted of a piece of low background bass music, the 2 voice overs of the males (one English and one French) explaining their experiences which have happened on the tube and then also the occasional sound effect of the tube moving own the tunnel with the ladies muffled voice over of "stand clear of the doors please". This sound effect in particular made this piece very realistic to listen to and at one point I actually felt like i was on the tube myself.

However, although I just stated at one point of this piece I felt like I was actually sat on the tube myself, this was only when the voice over of the train women came. So, as a piece overall I felt that it didn't create a very good sense of space as the ambient noises weren't as regular as they should have been.

On the other hand though, I did get a very good feel for both of the characters as it felt like they were being interviewed live as I was listening to this piece. This was indicated to me by the use of coughs/muffles from the characters and due to one having an English accent and one having a French it was clear to know who it was and when they were talking and I found it very easy to connect with the characters.

Sence of Space - Piece One

Piece one - Meat Factory Ear worms
By - Richine Beirne
Year - 2008
Length - 13mins 47 seconds

In this piece I immediately noticed that there were at least 3 or 4 different layers which make up this sound scape. These being, the knifes scraping against each other/factory sounds, the mans voice over and various pieces of music to explain how he feels about working here sometimes and how the music get him through it.

The different sounds that are being heard throughout this piece help create a sense of space due to the specific ear worms he uses which remind him of certain things. An ear worm is a song that gets stuck in to your head and reminds you of a certain place/thing and in this case he used to sing "Bright eyes" to take his mind away from cutting up the meat. This really helped me to create an image in my head as to what it would have been like for this man to be cutting up the dead animals and to be covered in their blood.

The voice over itself is a middle aged man with a very smooth middle pitched tone to his voice and has a very strong Northern Ireland accent which is rather soothing to and so juxtaposed the topics he was speaking about throughout the piece as these wern't so "smooth" minded.

Although I did like the concept to this piece, I found it quite unsettling to listen to. The way the ear worms are cut in to this piece of sound is very abrupt as I just begin to get into a piece of music and then it stops, with the sound effect of one of the knifes he is using and to me it represented him cutting into one of the animals, so the music had too be cut too.

Sence of Space

In preperation for our new project "Sence of Space" we were given a set of four questions to apply to a number of different pieces we listened to. The questons were as follows:

1)How many layers are included in the soundscape?
2)What ambient tracks are included?

3)How does teh dynamic range of sounds create a sence of space?
4)How is voice/pitch/tone used and edited within the piece.

I have never made a piece of work that is just entirely sound based and so I will look foward to creating my own very soon.

Edale - The day itself

With the schedule, shot list and storyboard with us, myself and Fraser set off into the countryside of Edale ready to film the material we needed to complete our 3 minute silent film "Ashes". The reason we called the film ashes is because it is based mainly on the girl (me) holding this box, which contains the ashes of a loved one she has recently lost and the whole reason that she comes to Edale is to sprinkle her amount of her nans ashes into a stream over a bridge which used to be her favourite place to visit with her Nan when she was little.

Pictured to the right is the exact bridge that we used to sprinkle the ashes over.

Whislt filming, we did encounter a few problmes as it was very "hilly" and so we had to make sure the shots were filmed correctly in order to make sure the camera was set up correctly and the shot wasn't "wonky". Also, the rain made it hard to see the screen of the camera, but luckily we had a rain cover with out equipment we had collected the previous day so we managed to insert this over our camera to protect it from the rain.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed my day at Edale, although it was very wet and cold, i still managed to have fun in teh piece of work I was creating and enjoyed making my first pratical piece of the year.

Edale - Shot List

Here is an image of the exact shots that were filmed whilst we were Edale. I wrote this list whilst actually on set at Edale as we went along so I knew what shots we had compelted and what else we had left to do and compared it to our schedule so I made sure we had completed everything on time.

Edale - Final Storyboard

This is the final storyboard of the rough images I posted on my blog previosly. The reason why I neatened up teh drawing was so that when myself and Fraser went onto set at Edale, we could literally follow this step by step and no what sort of locatipons we needed when we got there and also what specific shots we needed to complete.

Edale - Schedule

This is a schedule sheet we were given as a group for the day we were going to spend. I made sure I bought this with me on the trip so that me and my partner Fraser could stick to this as best as possible and made sure we used our time efficiently. It worked out that we didn't actually film our shots in order to our story board and actually started with the middle, then the start, then we filmed the ending. However, we still finished with plenty of time and stuck the schedule as best as we could.

Edale- "Portrait of Place"

Here are some images of a very rough draft of my story board. Each square represents a different shot type within my three minute film which includes a veriety of wide shots, close ups, mid shots and both with the use of a tripod and some handheld for effect too.