For this assignment, we didn’t have to travel far to record each sound we needed. We stayed mainly in our school’s little hub called “campus square” and started by first recording two students having an intense study session for their biology exam. We then crossed the street to our local coffee shop, Saxby’s, and recording a frappacino being made for our “made sound.” We struggled a little with finding a non-human sound, and were excited when a dog came by because we thought this would be a good opportunity, however the dog was very quiet and “rarely barks,” according to the owner. We sat down and as the wind picked up, we started to record the sound of the trees and bushes rustling together; this became our non-human sound clip.
For the bad interview, we went and stood in front of a fountain with other people around, and, using a phone to record, we stood a few feet away from each other, causing the audio to sound distant and overpowered by the background noise.
This was an interesting project to do, and we enjoyed that it forced us to use equipment we hadn’t before and explore different aspects of our everyday lives and campus that we normally wouldn’t.