Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Location and Time: 4:02 pm, upstairs living room at Broadfield

Sounds Heard:

• Joey rustling through a bag of buttons
• Car driving by
• Anna lightly singing/humming “As It Was” 
• Joey moving a bag on the floor and dropping the heavy button press into it
• Joey crumpling a piece of paper

RSR Booth Nassau/Suffolk Original – 11:00 PM

Identify the location of the clip – Sitting on the pew outside of the Studio

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – This recording was taken as I sat on the pew folding a paper airplane. I was sitting outside the studio on the phone fiddling with some papers and started to fold it into a paper airplane. I thought the noise was cool so I did my field recording of this very noise. What you hear in the clip is a lot of paper constantly being crinkled and held down onto the hallow wood of the pew. Occasionally you can hear as I crease the paper and and then move it to make the next fold. The actual act of creasing the page is very clean and crisp when listened to in comparison to the ambient noise of my paper moving over the paper. Occasionally you can also hear as my finger squeaks on the paper as I crease each fold. 

Identify the location of the clip – This recording was taken in the studio one night while working on a design project for 179.
Identify the sounds heard in the clip – There is one principal noise that is found in this sound recording, the noise of my watercolor paper wiggling around as I shake it. I discovered the noise as I was cutting out a sheet 300lb paper for my set rendering. I was carrying the sheet back to my desk and kind of shook the paper in my hand and discovered that as the paper bent back and forth it made this very unique and intriguing sound. If you listen to the entire clip you can hear my shaking the cut out piece for a while then set it down and then grab the larger, scrap sheet and begin to do the same thing to see if there was any difference in noise; it was only slightly lower and deeper sounding. 

Identify the location of the clip – I was sitting in the studio working on my design for one of my characters for 179. The recording is taken at a very close range to my pencil and work surface to enhance the finite sounds that are being created.

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – At first you hear the pencil forming the arm shape of one of my characters. I was struggling with the foreshortening effect needed for his arm. As I drew I was also constantly erasing and redrawing. You can distinctly hear the difference between my pencil on the paper and my eraser and my hand brushing the eraser shavings off of the paper. If you listen very closely you can even hear a slight difference in pencil noises from the beginning to the end as I used a 4H pencil in the beginning and darkened the line at the end with a much softer, 4B pencil.