Professional Toolkit Sound Workshop #1

Professional Toolkit is one, out of the three Workshops I will be attending this semester. We have been set a task to create different forms of sounds playing along side your choice of recorded audio text. Over the past few weeks we have explored various different areas of sound on top of gathering an understanding of the program Pro Tools.

The first lesson Consisted of giving us a brief understanding of the task on hand along with familiarising ourselves with Recording equipment we would be using. We where set a small task of going out and in small groups and collecting different sounds, much like what we did last year with the 'Experimental sound' project. Harry played us a radio recording from 1968 called 'War of the Worlds' which was aired to the public causing causing mass panic among the community. This is a clear demonstration of how important sound can be used to create a range of atmospheres.

My chosen dialog is a scene for the Batman The Dark knight where the Joka is explain how he got his scars.

The Joker: You wanna know how I got these scars? My father, was a drinker, and a fiend. And one night, he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not. One. Bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me and says, "Why so serious?" Comes at me with the knife. "WHY SO SERIOUS?" He sticks the blade in my mouth... "Let's put a smile on that face." And...

[glancing at thug]

The Joker: WHY SO SERIOUS ?

[kills Gambol]

Different sounds where a gathered with the recorder to help create a scene for the diegetic sound. After talking to harry about the initials sounds that I had chosen to use did not complement the style of dialog i chose. As i explained earlier the dialog scene is about the character explain how he received his scars. Harry suggested that i explore sounds that would indicate an assault or dispute, for instants objects such as knives, pots and pans, chairs scraping, doors slamming, anything really that indicates signs of a dispute.