The last workshop of my first semester, seems as usual as the rest of the workshop before project submission, a rough cut reviewed by our tutor Brian, and our classmates with a fancy audio sharing machine. But…the differences had began to emerge when we heard that there would be 2 guests, 2 experts in sound to review our very first, and the only audio-based and collaborative work in the Media 1 course (what a straight forward course title).
Let’s meet Jon, who’s from the Wheeler Centre, and Catherine, one of the studio lecturers of our upcoming studio-based semester. We and Jessie’s group were the second row of being reviewed, as one of our members had gone late because of the mysterious Melbourne public transport system. Then, we have got Jon, who gave me the first impression of a kind person (who’s turned out to be an affable one as well), with Jessie’s group to have a peer-to-professional and peer-to-peer review in one go.
First of all, we had checked Jessie’s rough cut together, which their topic is related to Clickbait, having interviews with several persons, then use some interesting effects tricks to mix them together, such as sound transitions like page turning sound Whoosh sound that could make plain interviewing scenes more interesting, with intend to create an atmosphere of podcasting as well, where got some feedbacks on the importance of fading between clips, and the coherence needed of different sound environments.
Our topic, would be the relation between the evolution of media consumption, and the attention span on music listeners, cr. Billboard
In terms of the work division, I guess our group has a pretty different ‘policy‘ from others, after the day of our first recording, we had an agreement that each of us did a own version of the rough cut, where to decide who’s going to be the final cut editor, sound effects editor and materials researcher after all of our rough cut had been reviewed on Thursday (if we have enough time), which this idea could eventually fasten the process of final editing that the editor only have to combine all of our rough cuts into one, with adding certain extra recordings.
As we had to race against the schedule that made our review ends before 1:30, only mine and Bharam’s work had been viewed. Our main thought would be to compose our work by using a theme of TV/Radio channels switching, that including multiple media forms in the same sound piece: comedy, informative, documentary, etc.
My work contains an excited eye-catching opening that having a song medley by using several hits on Billboard, with sound effects accompanied; Bharam had involved an interesting Spotify ‘skip‘ advertisement parody in his own cut, as long as a few radio programme ‘celebrity‘ interviewing scenes. Speaking about both of our work, we had got some comments on:
The concern of using fading between sound clips
We could create an atmosphere of TV broadcasting by inserting an effect called ‘Compresser‘
Too much numerical data could let our audiences being in confused
The importance of audio mixing within tracks