Recording Voices

This lesson we decided we would take a step back and re-evaluate our progression. We realised that we have come up with some great ideas and created movement pieces to them however we need to make sure we are blocking them as we progress. We only have 3 weeks left until our final performance (28th) and at the moment everything is unfinished so it is imperative that we start wrapping the pieces up.

Today we re-visited our torch-ology piece. However, this time we wasn't creating any movement, It was previously discussed that we wanted to have some sort of voices over the music, of people saying their insecurities. Cameron brought his recording equipment from home to help us with this.

Using his MacBook, Logic editing software and a microphone he was able to record voices over the piece of music (Bastille-Oblivion) . At first we wanted the people in sixth form to record their own insecurity so we had a range of voices on the track, which would in turn make it more believable however our director said that this would be very impractical considering we have little time left, so we decided to just record the written insecurities ourselves.

After playing around with the layering voices over one another, we found that it wasn't really working with just our voices as it just sounded repetitive, we thought it'd be a good idea if we introduced the other group to help us with this problem. After some gentle persuasion we was soon able to record some of their voices and layer them over ours. Playing the track back to us we discovered that this gave the recording more variety which made it sound like the insecurities are form a diverse range if people. We still kept the meaning of body dysmorphia as each insecurity was linked to this brain disorder. Cameron proposed the idea that we all say our insecurities at the same time on one recording, this meant it was more efficient during editing and actually gave a realistic sound during over lapping. Our group wanted to use this movement as an ending to our piece and we want to end it on high note.

Equipment used

Recording voices in groups to make editing process easier

Here are some short clips of us experimenting with the recording:

Next lesson I hope to perform our torch-ology movement to the new track so we can block this piece, and move on to block another previous piece.

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