The first Creative Production Sound lesson was really interesting this week as we were introduced to the course itself and the BBC sound fx library! We started off by having a brief group discussion on radio/sound design basics and more specifically the idea of 'pareidolia' (a psychological phenomenon where the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists, e.g seeing a cloud that you believe looks like a certain animal) We were shown an audio clip and we had to identify how many voices we thought we heard during the short clip. I guessed that there were 5 voices in the clip and some other students guessed as high as 12, when in actual fact there were only 2! I found this concept really interesting, how certain sounds can be mistaken as the human voice.
After that we were then introduced to the BBC sound fx library and Adobe Audition, we were able to see the large amount of sound effects on offer and had to pick 10 from the list in order to create a short soundscape for a location of our choice using Audition. Being from Brighton I decided to make a soundscape of the beach, to do so I used a small range of sound effects such as water flowing, pebble splashes, footsteps on stones etc. I found this exercise really exciting as I have used the Adobe Creative Suite before but never Audition, so learning this new programme was really fun!
The soundscape that I created can be found here : https://soundcloud.com/user-546805850/week-1-multitrack-mixdown
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