Upon a little bit of reading on soundscapes during my ‘experimental filming of movement in skating’ inquiry, I was re-introduced to the fact that sound/soundscapes should help to creatively reinforce a theme. I’ve spent quite some time trying to play around with sounds from the clips on GarageBand, but I don’t really have immense skill using the program. I tried incorporating the laughter and little words they say in the clip to represent the bonding experience which skating holds – I was steering my interest towards at one stage, but then I realised that it did not sound as good as I expected. I separated the voice from the sounds of the boards along the ground, as well as the sound of the tricks which played out. Which looked like this upon first cutting and trialling some effects;

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After realising I wasn’t interested in the voices in the soundscape, I cut them out and focused more on the sounds of the skateboards – as they represent the movements entirely. I had aimed to make the soundscape very disjointed and arrhythmical to what was on screen to put further forward, the idea that these works are capturing a different aspect of skating to the “regular” where the sounds of the skateboards are synched or there’s some heavy music genre playing in its soundtrack.

This is what it’s looking like at the moment, cut down a bit from the previous screenshot. Hoping I come out with something I’d like to use in the final 2 min (ish) video for assessment five. At the moment, it’s still a little all over the place as I’m just working my way around how to use GarageBand effectively.