| Sound story evaluation Here I am again. Hopefully it’s better than my last attempt. It is certainly more expensive. I want value for money! I make it 1 minute 43 seconds, so it’s within the demands of the brief. It only has three words and tells a basic story. Hurrah! The story depicts an everyday scenario. Get up, washed, munch some toast highly exaggerated fashion, get ran over by a train. How many times has this happened? We’re late for work again, terrible, isn’t it. So the overall meaning is communicated, I will take the sounds one by one. The alarm clock is OK, the yarn was quite hard to reconstruct but I managed to capture quite a good one without distortion, nice plug sound. I think there’s a hint of mike noises when the washbasin fills up. This is probably due to having to hold the mirance, microphone et all and pretend to wash without electrocuting myself. The noise of the wash are quite unconvincing. It’s reminiscent of a splash pool or something. In the shower I think there’s evidence of mike popping, we’ll have to call the plumber. I like the toast sounds. It was really worth waiting until I was really hungry to achieve the overacting crunches that make it so amusing. I could have brushed my teeth, but it seemed pointless as I was about to die. The vocals seem to fit, although there’s an element of unwelcome background noise. The door was important for the narrative of the piece as, being ran over by a train in the kitchen is just silly. It’s far more feasible to be ran over on the road. During this there’s a little mike noises which arose from holding two things and opening a door. The splat noise is quite amusing and my train is really funky as I had to loop it several times. I wanted to have the person say ‘sorry’ to his wife for being killed, but I’d ran out of words. Overall, it’s reasonable and well worth 30 pounds of my overdraft. I hope I have learnt from my previous mistake, handing it in three days late. I also think last time my vocals were unconvincing and there wasn’t much elaroration. I suppose brushing teeth might come into this category but it should pass (no hints). |