SB3 | Goodbye Peggy

Before I had properly started my after effects work I had found this piece of music which I had really liked. But because it was around 28 minutes long, it would have been very time consuming to sit and sift through the whole piece of audio for any good bits.

This is a shame because the atmosphere of the music was very fitting. Instead, I've gathered a collection of individual sound clips hoping that they would be much easier to work with and layer on top of each other.

This part of the process has actually been pretty fun for me, selecting combinations of audio to set the scene, and matching them up to certain parts of my animation. The result is definitely more dynamic and is tailored to the movement in my sting.

Another plus of hand picking lots of small sounds is that I have been more involved in applying them to my animation. I have been using this website, and it's really interesting to see the variety of sounds available, and how different sounds conjure different moods.

The sounds I thought worked best were electronic or very subtle sounds that had an otherworldly feel when taken out of their original context. The hum of machinery, vinyl cracking and scratching, the low buzzing of a lightbulb, even the sounds of food and mud squelching.

I feel like a sound artist.