For this project I had decided to go towards a narration/story that has been one of my most profound memories since it occurred. I thought it would connect well to my whole theme due to the fact that it is remembering someone’s life who still is out there living it. I thought it would be a good way to keep my promise to him as well as fitting into the rest of my work. Though I do wish I was able to talk to him again, being able to record that story firsthand from him would be something else. But I do believe I convey his story as well as I could in under 2 minutes.
I started by writing down everything I could remember from the experience. Then condensing it to its most important details. The original recording with its numerous cuts, mess-ups and awkward pauses took about 3 minutes of recording. Easily cut down to about 1:30, I had my base for different sounds to enhance the story. The nature of the story required a lot of sounds that I wouldn’t be able to capture myself but giving appropriate credit to creators of all the extra sounds used in the background at the bottom. I used sounds from a busy street to give ambient sound to the introduction of the story as I was in Seattle when I met him. Easily just placing it under my narration. Moving on to the most labor-intensive part; the reminiscences of that day. Finding sounds like a muscle car to mimic the sound of his Humvee. Then mixing the sounds of glass and dirt falling after the explosion. As well as the slow fade in of the ringing and gun fire. All these efforts are to help with the experience, since there is no visual representation, the most in depth audio seemed needed to experience different emotions; as he did that day. There is a lot of material that can be improved, but that just comes with time. If when listening to this you think its too much, tell me! I think that may be my main concern. I don’t want to overload the audio tracks, but I want to have it be as realistic as possible.
http://soundbible.com/2175-Street.html
http://soundbible.com/1764-Cave-In.html
http://soundbible.com/2199-Marbles.html
http://soundbible.com/2209-Muscle-Car.html
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Hi Bradly
You have an amazing story that is so touching and I believe that it’s great that you are telling it. There are so many veterans that are out there that don’t get the benefits they deserve for one reason or another and it’s just amazing to see someone telling one of the many stories. One suggestion I do have is bring down the should in the background nose it was a bit loud and distracted me from what you were saying. They were a good add on though it really fits with the story. With your actual audio maybe turn it up a bit it’s a bit quit, I had to turn up the sound all the way up on my computer to hear it. You do have a good start to an amazing story that needs to be told for the whole country to hear so that something can be done.
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