Coffee Chats

In this week’s workshop, we conducted a recording exercise in pairs using a Zoom H2N Audio Recorder. We conducted an informal interview at the basketball courts to get a feel of the environment we were in. Though you could hear other sounds in the background, such as cars driving by, people talking, basketballs bouncing and […]

But Listen To Me Though

If there was anything that stood out to me in this week’s lecture on sound, it would have to be the concept of ‘hearing vs listening’. Hearing is involuntary, we can’t decide what sounds we hear (with the exception of wearing earphones and listening to music), because even if you’re driving on an empty road […]

Listen Up

In our readings for the week, we were asked to read ‘Perspective’ from Speech, Music and Sound and ‘Sound’ from Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production. In ‘Perspective’, the extract discusses perspective, social distance and immersion in relation to sound. In brief terms, perspective is the process of placing elements in order. And […]

What Do You Hear?

This week’s lectorial was one that definitely had to be listened to. And that’s because the topic being discussed is sound, an element that I think is somewhat underrated sometimes in film and television. The lecture touched base with ideas highlighted in our reading for the week, discussing topics from ‘what is sound?’ to different […]