There was a popular game in the 80's called Hero Quest. It was one of those games with swords and monsters and lots of dice. It was one of my favorite games as a kid, but it was always a pain to set up because it had so many pieces. I remember all the little plastic pieces clanking together. I also remember the constant arguing that went along with the game.
When I was looking through my closet I found my bag of spare game parts. Most of them were from my old Hero Quest game. I don't own the game anymore but I still have a lot of memories from it. This got me thinking about the game and the sounds it made. Below is a pictuer of the Hero Quest game and most of its pieces.
The idea I wanted to cover for my project was significant noise. Significant noise is basically a name for sound that has meaning or gives some sort of context for itself. Basically if you have an intent for a noise then it is a significant noise. For my project I wanted to use significant noise to help tell a story. My intent was to use backround noise to say things that the dialogue does not. My project has many different layers of noise all of which are important or meaningful. I used a great deal of ambiant noise to establish settings and to give a general mood for the piece. I also used sound effects so that listeners could tell where the character was and hopefully what he was doing. I wanted a little of the action to be left to the listeners imagination but it was my intent to control the general tone of the story with signifcant noise.
My project is formed from a combination of recorded and internet sounds. Almost all talking is me but I changed the pitch of the files in hopes of making it sound like several different people. I had to balance the sound carefully on this project because there are so many sounds and because I suck as a voice actor and it is hard to understand what I am saying if the file is not played loudly enough.
I like the way the file turned out for the most part. My roomate thought it was weird and laughed a few times and that is pretty much the reaction I was looking for.
Final Project: Ramses And Banjo
This entire project is based on one principle and one principle only. Bear attacks are funny. This has been proven time and time again since the dawn of man...and bears. Anyway, that aside I had an interesting time with this project. I created most of the sounds on my own unlike my last project. I also did not have nearly as big of a problem with not having enough tracks. It also helped that I finally got use to all the controls on the editing software. On one hand I feel like this project is better than the last two since I was actually able to use most of the features in my editing software. On the other hand I did not run into nearly as many problems so I feel like I did not work as hard. Still, I like the end product. I laugh when I listen to it so it must be at least kind of funny.