'Record' Project: Sounds

More recorded sounds, but I've been focusing more on conversations. I think these are more interesting, some of them are quite muffled but some are complex and busy. I like how you can make out small areas here and there but not always the whole picture, which is really what I've been looking at both in my journals and during development of work.




I think this is a good example of what I was talking about before, I was quite lucky here because on the bus the background noise is usually too loud to make anything out! There are probably around 10 different conversations happening here.




This is from the library in college. This was just one conversation between lots of people which I liked, because you'd think the sound would be clearer, but they were all talking between themselves and over eachother so it's still quite difficult to make out.




This was a large group of people all talking to eachother, and you can hear the television on in the background, with presenters having a conversation with eachother, and the viewers if you like. I think that adds another dimention to the recording as there are different types of conversation and also communication involved.




This is a good example of what I meant about the buses, it's hard to make anything out past the background noise! You can hear some muffled conversation but nowhere near as clear as my other recordings.

The clear recordings are a great addition to my work and I think now I'm really rounding up the basis or theme if you like. It's good to have something other than drawings and recorded conversations in my journal to go by. To improve I think I'd need to place myself in busy places or situations to get good quality clear recordings of the conversations, because some of these are quite hard to understand! I am happy with them though, I like that you can get a little look into someones day or situation.

'Record' Project: Video

After my video from the journey while I was away, I wanted to film a journey back home. I started filming my bus to college in the same way, but I split it up into sections. Mainly because the first part was so boring!




You can see that this is just trees, it's interesting for a short time but after that I don't think it really works very well. I wanted to get more windy roads and people like I had before.


I picked up filming again when I know there were going to be more houses and people and generally people moving around. I much prefer this.




I did enjoy this, however as I do this journey all the time, it wasn't really as exciting as filming somewhere different was. Personally I find myself not being able to engage as much as I would had it been somewhere else. I'm still glad I made the films but for future reference I think i'll try and step more out of my comfort zone.

'Record' Project: Working with Sound.

 In a session with my tutor it was suggested that I start looking at all the differnt ways of recording information and imagery, including video and sound. This is a short post with a few sound clips from my morning. It's really enjoyable, and I think I'll keep taking short sound clips when I'm working on location they could even complement drawn pieces.