In our week 11 workshop, we finally clarified what our project brief 4 was going to solely focus on. Originally we had come up with the idea of fan obsession and fan attention, but this was too broad of a subject to base a 7-8 minute audio piece on. Thus, we spent more time as a group really developing our ideas for what else we could specifically include. We came up with lots of sounds from the Harry Potter franchise that could be added to our final work. Some of these included:
˚ Interviews with fans
˚ Interviews with the cast/ JK Rowling
˚ Sounds of potions (could use boiling water)
˚ Wand sound effects
˚ Trains
˚ Hedwig’s Theme (Musical score)
˚ Readings from the book/fanfiction
Now that we had a specific angle for our project to go, it was much easier to be able to brainstorm a number of sounds we could use.
In this lesson we also completed an audio exercise, using the zoom mics again and then practising with Audition. Our theme was attention, more specifically Can I Have Your Attention? and even though this was similar to our project brief 4, we took a whole different angle. Our small narrative that we came up with was two people trying to have a conversation, whilst one was engrossed in their phone, not paying attention. It was simple, but with the tones of our voice and the pauses in the correct places, it was semi believable that a conversation like this would actually take place. Piecing it together on Audition was difficult for me, and my laptop felt the need to keep exiting the app without saving. This was frustrating but nonetheless I did get some sense of how to do the basics.