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Soundtrack production for the Moving Image

64 Zoo Lane (up to 4:34) 64 Zoo Lane Series 4: The Story of Ronald and his Boulders In the series, 64 Zoo Lane there is both functional and conversational dialogue. At the beginning when Lucy slides down the giraffe, all the animals say ‘Hi Lucy” in unison which tells the audience that the all know each other. Speaking in unison is common in this episode as they again, speak in unison when they say “Yes it did” when Ronald crashing a boulder and it made a loud noise. It starts mostly with conversational dialogue such as when the giraffe character tells Lucy and the others: "My favourite past time has always been gardening." She also tells them what others characters love such as ballet dancing(Natalie the antelope), eating watermelon (Herbert the warthog) and then gives functional dialogue : “Ronald the rhino is into bashing boulders,” which is what the story is about. Most of the sound effects used in this episode are synchronous such as the sound  of the giraffe...
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Evaluation - workshops

Evaluation Workshop 1 - Adding a voiceover (The Shining) For this first workshop we have to use a scene from a film/ tv and create a script to voice over the characters thoughts and feelings. I decided to pair up with Jenna and we chose the maze scene from The Shining. We downloaded the scene from YouTube and opened it on GarageBand. Afterwards we created a script which included the mother and son talking. Our intentions for the scene were to convey what a mother and son conversation is typically like when doing an activity.  Our voice added mood as you can tell what the mother and son are feeling through, the way they talk such as Wendy is happy when she says, "Isn't beautiful". We recorded the script using my phone in which I sent the recordings to myself to download it to drag it onto GarageBand. Once I had all the clips together, Jenna and I arranged the audio clips to match with the timing of the scene. If I did this workshop differently I would pick a scene with...
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