For the preperation for this lesson, Vic drafted up a baseline script to work from for this project that will now be the basis for what sounds I should be collecting and what I should be thinking of. The script gives sound descriptions that are quite particular to a space, and I’ve started considering what sounds would benefit from being recorded myself or what could be best used from a sound library, such as the bike sounds and ringtones appearing more appropriately cartoonish and emphasised if they are less natural to the environment. Drawing from the script as well, I’ve started to consider what non-diagetic sounds can be included to exaggerate the situation in a more exciting way than our piece being too literal to be engaging, and how that seperation can be made through sound alone that the sound is not in the environment, but more of an internal thing for the character that is focused on.
From this session, we started to discuss the script as a group, giving input on how we could interpret what we had and how the concept could be stretched to have more of an impact, talking about notions of Realistm and Surrealism as well as forcing a state of tired listening, which is an observation from a previous preperation task. The overall takeaway from this was that the script shouldn’t be seen as so strict, and that diversions (within reason) are more than welcome as long as the outcome is entertaining and the group is informed on it. This helped give me a bit more freedom with how I approach this project, with a lot of pressure being put on me because my work is ultimately to present everyone else’s work in a way that brings out their hard work, so having more freedom feels like less pressure to doing what I feel like I’m expected to do, and more just doing what I would like to do.