Some of the trials I faced whilst making the piece were mostly down to the fact that I once again was positive for Covid on my lateral flows, which again was not fun to do uni work with.
There are only so many samples I could use without actually going outside, on top of that I couldn’t get any stereo recordings because I do not have equipment that allows me to do so.
But why was that even a problem?
Firstly, for act one I was going to record inside a room during lunch or that end-of-uni rush get that indoor “bustling in the background sound”, then for act two I want to record a new walk at night with stops, in the middle in a forest, to get a lot of the atmosphere I was trying to go for with that act.
On top of that, The script and the voice acting wasn’t actually as good as I thought after revisiting it. My voice was just too bassy in the second act, and even though I cut a lot of the low frequencies out, it was still quite unclear.
Something I didn’t necessarily want to do going in but felt necessary when I was actually editing it was keeping the piece relatively clear. A big proponent of the second act is the noise; however, it also tends to overpower the voice actor’s voice, and a lot of the weight of the piece comes from the intonation and dictation of the voice actor.
While I didn’t have all of the materials I wanted, the task wasn’t necessarily suited for me and I chose to do something simpler than complex again. Despite that, I do think I made the most of the voice and of the kitbash of audio recordings I had lying about.