Recently I have been spending a lot of time working in Adobe Audition making sounds for the DSA Troope 5765 production of the Diary of Anne Frank. Previously I hadn't done any audio editing for anything other than videos or games so having to make something that would play in the real world posed a number of new and interesting challenges for me to overcome.
The first major challenge I faced was that things that sound good over headphones don't always sound great once you pipe them out through a sound board. This was especially hard because the sound board we have in the theatre right now can only play mono sound. This meant that whenever I made a sound I had to make sure it wasn't stereo or run it through a Mono Bus in Audition so you could hear both sides. This worked a lot of the time but some sounds I found simply didn't work without a stereo effect. This meant I had to look for new options and make sure each sound worked. Another problem I had was finding sounds. I set a goal for myself in this show to use no copyrighted material that we didn't own. This cut off stealing sounds from youtube and other video cites. There are so many unique sounds I needed to find, I often had to spend hours trying to find multiple options of sounds to show the director. Despite all these hardships I actually had a lot of fun working on this show. I got to express myself creatively in new ways and I was allowed to think outside of the box on how to make certain things. Hopefully I'll get to work on even more shows in the future and perfect my sound design skills.
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AuthorSamuel Henry is a Senior at DSA in NC. He has 3 years of prior experience in the game design pathway and he's looking forward to becoming a great game designer. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools Categories
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