It is my first time to do an audio work, and when I listened to this lecture, I found that I didn’t notice much about the sound in my daily life. After listening to the Ambulance 000, I found it was quite creative to record the sound when people are calling an ambulance. When I listened to their voice, I could even image the scene that they are panic, nervous and helpless. I think a good audio can make people see the scene through listening. We are trying to discover an unique perspective to show a detail of our life, and this kind of audio works can attract people’s attention quickly.

As the reading talked about, there is a relationship between sound and listener, which is related to the perspective and social distance. The main opinion is that an audio work should combine different perspective and social distance to create a dynamic feeling for listeners. For example, an interview clip is a ‘figure’ perspective, and it creates an atmosphere that someone is telling a story to you; while the background music is a ‘ground’ perspective because it is just help to build the work. When we put these sounds together, audiences can first get the general idea of the story, then know about the details. So, that is very important to decide when should we put ‘figure’ sound and when to put ‘ground’ sound. Related to Kyla Brettle’s tips, we should be creative to use the spots sound to indicate the storyline.

Our group is going to talk about the greyhounds adoption, so we will use lots of sound effects of dog’s daily life. I think we can take the advises and do a great work.