Soundscape and Final Export

For my sound piece I spent quite a lot of time deliberating what kind of sounds I would want in my piece. I took a lot of inspiration from the other artists work that I've referenced and built up my idea from there. I knew very early on that I wanted to make a soundscape and not have music, as I felt it would suit my work best. That being said I did add whistling to the piece as I felt like it added a distracted and 'in your own world' sort of feeling, which I felt was an important feeling to be giving out for this piece specifically. I found my sounds from online archives and spent a lot of time sifting through different sound files and testing out which ones worked well together.

I aimed for there to be a certain level of background noise that was pretty consistent throughout, so that there wasn't actual silence at any point as with ADD and ADHD it's really difficult to get your brain to calm down and stop making noise. I wanted sounds from both environments, so there are some office noises mixed in with sounds from projectors. I shifted the arrangement of the sound files multiple times to test out which orders they sounded best in and where I needed to remove or add sound.

Once I was satisfied with my sound piece I exported it, but when I added it to my film I didn't like it, it was louder in parts that I thought and some bits just didn't work with the film. So, I went back into Audition and re-edited. 

Before I did this bit, I imported my film into premiere. I initially had to make a digital copy of my film so that I could hand it in properly to my tutors, but this did then enable me to add sound so it worked out pretty well.

I used a DSLR camera and tripod and set up in front of the screen that I was projecting on. I was then able to film my analogue piece and import it into Premiere where I cut the beginning and end where there was just blank screen. I used the motion effect to adjust the framing as the camera had been at a slighting off centre angle, and so I was able to rotate it just a little to line up horizontally.

Then once I had added the sound, I lined it up and then I was ready to export.