Sound

I found this film on vimeo that I thought the sounds were really interesting for. The whole soundtrack is done using sounds recorded from analogue cameras, and made into music.

Digital Analogue from NORTH OF X on Vimeo.

For our experimental film my group decided we didn't want to have music in our piece, so I looked into lots of different sounds I could use to make a soundscape.
We were thinking we could find loads of technological sounds to incorporate into the track, such as phones ringing, printers, cars etc. We also thought having voices on the radio and static would make a really interesting addition to it, and would represent phone calls and people communicating over long distances.

I began initially by searching for various sound effects on free websites such as 'Sound fx' to use, and adding them all to a folder in Audition.
I then began to sifting through the sounds and picking the ones I thought would work well together and adding them to my mixed track session.

At first I found it difficult to find a pace for the track that accurately matched what I wanted the audience to hear, I wanted them to get a sense of the pace of the film and sort of the rhythm of the clips. To do this I watched the edit several times and began to build a pattern of where there were lulls in activity and tried to adapt the soundscape to that.

I had some sounds as base layers that were mostly just meant as background noise, although instead of just having one or two background layers through the whole thing I cut up a lot of them and spaced them through it. I then began adding in the other layers and clips. It took a long time to get right just because of the length and the amount of layers, and to stop it from becoming repetitive I also had to make sure that I had large resources of sounds to draw from.