Charlie Whiffing, BA(Hons) Computer animation arts, UCA Rochester

The first audition lesson was mainly about going over the basics of how the program works. It being an Adobe program, it works very similarly to the rest. There is two views, one focuses on just one sound clip and editing it is destructive editing which cant be changed. The other view is used to layer multiple sound clips together which isn't destructive editing and is a lot like editing footage in premier together. We also had the opportunity to use the microphones to get the sound clips.

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One of the two new projects we where given as called soundscapes where we have to create a thirty second sound track for each of these images consisting of sound effects. The actual images are random for each person depending on what number we drew, my number was 27 which gave me these three. The sound effects can not be pre recorded which means they all need to be made from scratch by first collecting the sounds and editing them using adobe audition which is Photoshop but for music. Initial impressions of the images are that they are very different from anything I have seen before and they are also easy to interpret in different ways as well. Picture one sort of looks like it could be rain on a window but the blue color and consistency looks like it could sound like sludge, that said I am also seeing shapes where yellow parts are that remind me of plants or spores. The second picture is more than likely of microscopic life forms which for some reason reminds me of sea life wi...