Birds chirping. Air conditioning units. Cars passing by in
the distance. These are all things you hear all day everyday but hardly ever
notice. As our group traveled around searching for sounds to isolate and record
we quickly noticed the loud drone of these sounds in the background. Things
like “Wait, there’s an airplane flying overhead in this recording” or “no the
AC unit is humming really loud in the background” were said many times. The
trouble is not finding sounds. The trouble is in isolating sounds in nature. It
became a fun challenge to see what sounds we could capture as cleanly as
possible. After some trial and error, we developed a knack for what worked and
what didn’t. Building a sound library is an endless task because no two sounds
are the same. Every sound can be used for a different situation in film. This
is project truly makes you realize that video is only half of the equation in
film.
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