Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1- 3/13/13 – 9:22 – JCA Playhouse
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. –  Furthest from me I can hear faint clangs and rumbles of items and actors moving around backstage and hitting different props and tings as the lumber around. 
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – At a medium range from me I can hear the noises of the actors projecting their lines our into the audience and the occasional clang or their swords or the sturdy plastic noises of their armor hitting other objects. The loudest noises are coming from the actors as they recite their lines and kill themselves on stage. 
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – The sounds that are closest to me is an array of different high-pitched beeps and rhythmic clicks of shutters as each camera snapped off hundreds of photographs. In total there were four cameras all clicking and snapping photos at different times. If I shut my eyes I was able to pinpoint the exact spot of where each photographer is sitting in the audience and how far away each of them were from me. 
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – The loudest and most bold noise in this space is the sound of the actors on stage and moving around as they project their lines to the audience. Oddly enough the most overwhelming noises in the space are the noises of the clicks of the camera. I found it very difficult to block out these noises as they were never at a constant pace and seemed to just be an annoying noise that I could never tune out. 
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. –  Active
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try to 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. – Camera click, Actor movement, and camera beep