Assignment 1b: Response

I thought the "Painting with sound" project was a lot of fun. This was mainly because we had complete creative control over our project. I also really liked being able to edit with only one other person helping me (instead of 3 others... gets a little chaotic).

As far as what I learned... I learned how to create a feeling with sound. My project was "High-Speed Promenade" and my partner and I did what I could to create a feeling out of all of the different sounds together and make one piece. We chose what sounds we wanted first and really thought about how we wanted our piece to feel before we started. "High-speed" and "promenade" are kind of oxymorons and we knew that we wanted something to get progressively faster and faster, be a little bit off-beat, and also we wanted to have something a little bit musical in our piece.

In the end, I think we pulled it off. It was really interesting to hear the rest of the classes pieces and see how they used the sounds in different ways to create different feelings. I refreshed myself on the workings of Final Cut and the audio portion for editing, which was also helpful. This was probably my favorite project for this class so far.