Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Identify the location of the clip – This recording is taken from the floor just inside the door to my dorm room with the microphone facing under the door toward the staircase and hallway.

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – What is recreated in this recording is a series of sounds I have developed quite an awareness for in the last few months. This is the sound that I hear through my door whenever my room-mate comes home. It always baffles me that I can pick up of the tiny differences in his style of walking that I always know if it is him coming down the hallway as opposed to any of my multitude of neighbors. In this sound clip you initially can hear me open the door and leave my room so that I can recreate this moment. Next you can faintly hear me grab the door knob and swing the door open from the stair well there is a very subtle and extremely high frequency noise of the door creaking. I pull the door open and turn down the hallway toward my room. I was careful in the recording to not pick my feet up when I walked as that is generally what I hear when my roommate is coming down the hall. Next thing you can hear is me grabbing my lanyard with keys and pushing it into the key slot of my door and missing a few times. Right after this you can hear the key go into the hole and then the door swing open and the door knob twists back into place and the door shuts.