Splatter Sounds

I started to feel better and got on with my next project, "splatter sounds" i took a packet of ink cartridges and some a3 paper and cut the ink cartridges and splattered them all over the paper, i then my used little finger to make abstract paintings out of them, I scanned them in and and coloured them in on photoshop. The idea was to create a vague scenery out of each piece and make them identifiable by their soundscapes.

I was looking for animators and editors to work on this to bring the pictures to life, but all my plans fell through as everybody was far too busy with their own projects, I then edited the videos myself, but i didn't really know what i was doing and some points went on far longer than i wanted, but i made do with what i had and collected the sounds I had in my head.

This week i recorded hundreds of sounds that i thought would fit with each scene and began editing and modify each sound, i experimented with "sound pockets" were I took sounds with simliar frequencies and by dipping a certain frequency in one of the sounds then boosted it in another, I was pleased with the results, were as the Bloomsbury Videos were jagged and full of jump cuts, I wanted this to run seamlessly, weaving from scene to scene evenly and smoothly.

I knew I wanted to start the video with underwater sounds and end it with electronic sounds. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a hydrophone microphone, which I took to 3 or 4 lakes and rivers, the results were astonishing, I managed to capture bugs and insects swimming around which sounded fantastic and fitted perfectly for my project. The Electronic sounds I made with a Coil pickup microphone placing it on lamposts at night, mobile phones and a fridge. The rest of the sounds were recorded with a Zoom H4 and a 416 shotgun for some of the atmospheres,

overall I am quite pleased with how it turned out, It was a shame it was not animated or edited how I would of liked but I plan to do this again next year.