Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1- Bits and Bytes, Monday 3/24/14 12:45

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

• Burger guys yelling at each other
• Some sort of racket playing on the television
• General B&B chatter

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.

• People at the table next to me talk about x-box
• Cashier saying “Have a nice day”
• Someone saying “Oh, SHIT” as they drop a glass bottle

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

• Jeremy making a joke
• rustling of my candy package
• tapping on the table

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

This is a fairly busy time for B&B, so it’s loud and chatty. Everyone is going about their mid day food requirements

6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.

Hungry

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.

• Rustling of candy
• Jeremy
• General B&B noise