Week 4 - Sound room and Comparing animations

In this lesson we firstly had to compare animations. Instead of comparing just the sound like we had other times,we had to listen to the soundtrack of the film and see if we could piece together the story. It was interesting to see whether or not you knew what was going on. You might hear something one way and think it is a certain object or action and someone else could think it is something else. It was very hard to listen without the image. What image you associated with the sound might not be true.

We then watched an animation without the sound and again we had to say what was happening. We then watched it with the sound and discussed the effect it had. Watching the animation without the sound was difficult as it was hard to follow because although i could see what was happening, sound helps the emotion and atmosphere. You could be watching an animation without sound thinking it was happy but the sound tell us differently that actually it was supposed to be dark and creepy.

During the lesson in groups we were taken to the sound room to test it out. We looked around and then had ago at recording our own sound. It was fun and interesting to learn how to record sounds as we can now use it to record sounds for our final projects (Cecil the Cat) if we wanted to.