Reflection #7

On your blog (no handwritten entries, please) please talk about:
- what your clip was - each scene that you saw
- how you decided sounds for each scene
- how you decided what foleys to record
- sound effects - where you got them from, how did you alter them, did you find enough?
- How do you think you will do against your peers? Did you find/notice sounds that others may have overlooked? Which ones?

1. The clip that I was assigned to was when Bill Jr. was being overpowered by the strong winds of the tornado. When he got control, he looked for a place to hide. First he got through a stage door, only finding it to fall down due to no reinforcements. Then he reached this stage of a room with a backdrop of an island. After messing around the stage, he eventually gets out of the stage from a door in the back. When he leaves, the stage falls down. Shocked, he runs away as the clip comes to an end.

2. I focused very hard on the steps that Bill Jr. made in this clip. I also focused on his reactions towards the environment such as falling obstacles and horns. After that I briefly worked on what the sounds of the environment would be, such as the ambience and the objects that Bill Jr. interacts with. 

3. Sadly, I wasn't able to record any foleys because I thought that I would find every sound effect that I need. It wasn't til the very end that I couldn't find a sound effect that I needed and that I could've recorded as a foley.

4. Most of the sound effects were from the Resource Central because I found it to be easier to find my sound effects there. However, it also had its cons - one being that some sounds weren't able to be imported. One sound effect that I altered was the steps that I found. I change the speed of the steps to match the steps of the video. I believed I found enough sound effects for the video, but I had the feeling I needed a few more.

5. I thought I was going to be challenging against my peers, having a friendly competition. And it was the opposite, I noticed sounds that I could've used to enhance my video, such as the small humor that Lanz made with cartoon foleys in his video.

Reflection #6

1. How did you come up with the story idea?
2. Was it difficult to find the sounds to your story using Adobe soundbooth? What specific sounds couldn't you find or weren't exactly as you needed it to sound?
3. When animating it with images, what difficulties did you find? What worked really well? Give specific examples from your story.
4. If you had to do this again, what would you do differently? Would you write the story so it would be easier to find sounds for? Images for? Leave it the same? Please explain your choice.
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1. When I was coming up for the story idea, I wanted something with the most unique combinations of sounds. So when I figured out the whole jet-skateboard and falling down in a pool of sharks, I knew that it would be fun to look for the sounds and piecing them up. 
2. Some of the sounds that I needed weren't there such as how a guy would say "hmm.." when he is thinking. However, I did manage to find sounds that were able to replicate the ones that would sound like in the story.
3. One difficulty of animating my story was the fact that my video had to be shrunk from 2.45 seconds to 1 minute. I only managed to shrink it to 2 minutes and I wasn't able to finish animating. Another difficulty was that the character had to hold a ramp and a jet-skateboard at the same time. I needed to bring all three (not including the jet engine on the skateboard) onto the same backgrounds and animating all of them at the same. 
4.If I had to do this again, I would write a story that wouldn't be as long so that I will have time to find sounds and images without stress. I would've also managed my time more productively and use all the time I can get to work on this project again.