Project Brief 3 consumed most of this week in regards to my media endeavours. I began the project knowing that my skills were not great in the area of sound editing, so my main aim was to become more familiar with the programs and tools that can be used when editing in this format.

Overall, I believe that I did improve upon my minimal skills whilst bringing together this assignment. Although I do have some qualms with the finished product, I do think it reflects the argument I try to make in my exegesis. The main problems with the piece are it’s anti-climactic ending, and it’s lack of detail in some of the more intense moments. For example, I think the voicemail could have benefited from a change in sound design when the caller drops her phone, but I struggled to create this sound effectively. I do think, however, that I was able to make the audio in the piece sound like it was coming through a a phone, which I am proud of.

We also delved into Vampire movies in Thursday’s class, which prompted a lot of interesting conversations. It was intriguing to see how each of the different movies played on the Vampire folklore differently, yet we were all still easily able to identify them as ‘Vampire films’. This clearly shows the ways that genre transforms and changes overtime, so it was really beneficial to see several different short clips rather than one whole movie.