Day 7: Sound Design

The day began as Tony gave a presentation on sound design. The class talked about various youtube videos, including a really funny cat who was very confused about what a printer is . . . the video had added sound effects to make it more dramatic.

Tony then introduced freesound.org and explained how you can preview and download any sound from the site. As Tony was explaining, Remmy, Oscar and Nick all suddenly jerked back pulling at their headphones; they had previewed a high pitched screeching noise entitled something rather inappropriate for this blog and found it to be rather startling!

Tony led the class in a sound design challenge with the Purple Rain video. They were supposed to overdub a scene using their in class computers microphone. Each student was soon busily planning what to say, recording, and adding music and sound effects. Different students took different approaches - Dylan did a more realistic to the actually filming whereas Ma tried to figure out how to overdub in Hmong.

Afterwards, Tony let the class loose to work on their projects! More to follow tomorrow!