oh boy, its finally the time for my skills from making BTS fanfictions on youtube in 2017 to come in handy.
just kidding... maybe. if you find that, no you didnt. BUT ANYWAY! this particular assignment was really fun, especially since i got to do it with a, guess what, PARTNER! 2 vs 1 baby. i was lucky enough to work with the loveeeely gyongy, gorgeous fashion expert with her own blog, you can check her own version of this blog and her sensational blog here!
so, super big thanks to my amazing partner, gyongy, for working with me on this and being so cool and awesome. i definitely feel like i learned some stuff about mixing audio that i didnt before, since the clips i used in my past experiences were all recorded in a studio setting and easily available, and therefore felt easier to remix and spin into what i wanted.
without further ado, allow me to present to you... our sound story!
now, in case you've been left wondering what the hex that was, here is the script for the sound story.
getting ready for the club
· shower running
· turning off the shower
· stepping out
· water dripping
· blow-drying
· looking for hairbrush (picking it up)
· brushing hair
· walking into other room
· door opens-closes
· getting dressed (denim ruffling, zipper sound)
· putting on high heels
· walking downstairs
going to the club
· walking out the front door
· crickets sound
· car pulling up
· car door opens
· car door closes
· Friend in car: "Hey girly”
· music in the car on the way
· two people opening then closing car door
getting in the club
· walking to the club together
· club music in the background low volume
· people chattering in background
· "ID”
· ruffle in bag
· pull out Id
· "here”
· walk inside club
· music becomes louder
· people talking becomes louder
okay! now that we've gotten that out of the way, lets actually get into the nitty gritty of things. for our sound story, my partner and i had originally planned to have it follow a model as she gets ready backstage to walk in a big show. it was what brought us together for this assignment, since gia loves fashion, as do i! we had first talked about how it would be cool to have the sounds of how the model's heartbeat sped up and sort of have a moment of pre-show jitters. the layering of sounds for that particular part had a lot of potential, though we quickly ran out of much inspiration for the other parts.
so, we decided to change things up a little bit. while still keeping the "hey girly grwm" idea, we shifted it away from supermodel and more of a girl just wanting to go out and have fun with her friends. i think what was great about not giving a definite reason for why the girl in the sound story was going out is that one can easily give meaning and context to the story in a more personal way. one person might heart this and think "oh i see, she's going out to feel better after a bad breakup!" and another person might think something completely different. its a nice reminder that art is subjective, and that everything has meaning because we as people decide that it does.
but.. i'm gonna have to break that little illusion a bit, because now its time to show how things worked behind the curtain a little bit with our foley stage video!
the creative process after modifying the idea felt relatively chill, it was nice to see (or.. hear, i guess?) the vision come to life. it did feel a little bit weird filming myself brushing my hair and stuff, and i struggled a bit not to laugh. the sounds were nice and crunchy, although it definitely sounded better than it felt to be working the knots out of my hair. a good chunk of the sounds were taken off of youtube, since there wasn't really a way for us to do them ourselves. the editing of the audio had to be redone since we didn't end up super happy with the results the first time around, but i'd say the end result was great!!
here is our foley video! i hope you enjoyed today's blog, see you next time! (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)
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