In today’s class, we worked on mimicry and sound effects and I was involved in the part where we created the sounds of the sea and screaming. I held the tape in my hand and gently rubbed it to create the sound of the sea breeze blowing on the beach. The other students created the sound of the wind blowing the sand away by moving it around. In the scream session, the three of us screamed together, a sound that I think could be put into our radio, as we have a violent part in our drama. The most interesting part for me was the killing of the watermelon, although I wasn’t in the studio doing it, I could already imagine how I would create the sound of a knife stabbing a person as the students stabbed the watermelon with various tools to make the sound.

I also tried to create my own sound effects at home, I wanted a blood spatter sound so I recorded a wringing wet towel sound. When I listened back to the sound and did some eq processing, I still found the sound very unrealistic and I didn’t find a solution in the end, but of course I will continue to work on the sound.

I also used a synth to create a whoosh sound that I wanted to put in the flashback segue of our script. I used five tracks of different synth sounds, changed their xy and stacked them on top of each other. Unfortunately when I used the whoosh sound I found that it was too cyberpunk and did not fit in with the theme of our script.