Resonance of Remembrance 2015
This personally was the most interesting and personal I have ever gotten in a project. For the exhibition Dia De Los Muertos, we learned all about sound. Sound can be anything, and this is what we learned in a field trip we went to. We went to Studio West of San Diego, this place was full of sound. The gadgets to make sound for video games, movies, commercials, short films, and music. We were privileged to see all these kinds of stuff but of course, we needed to understand what exactly is behind sound. Before this field trip, we learned all about sound design. We learned how to blend different types of sound to make it work, how to listen well and name all the sounds that are in a specific sound. To get us warmed up, we used a website called WeVideo to blend and fade all our music. In humanities, we choose songs that connects to a personal memory or that are personal to you and wrote a little description for why. Then we took 30 seconds of the song for copy right reasons, then put them together as one long song that explains our memories year by year. It is our mixtape of our life that may be another persons song, but means something more to us.
As well as creating our own types of music, we learned the scientific way of how music effects your body. What exactly is going on in your ears when you hear sound waves? I have learned many things from this worksheet as we followed along with our Physics teacher when she explained how it works in your ears. She explained that in your ears, there is mini dancing critters of many types of lengths. Each length catching the size of the wave length of the music your listening to. She also had an activity that we heard little sounds that get quieter each time depending on age. There was a beep for an elderly, adult, then it gets quieter depending on the age. This was a very interesting activity because it connected us as a class with experimenting our hearing capability. It all started with this worksheet to guide us and has given us an understanding of how the ear works.
In this project, I have learned many things about sound. I am proud of how much our class was able to take this as an adult and share personal experiences on exhibition. I was proud of how much depth I was able to get into with writing and sound design. Honestly, with my memory I shared with people on exhibition I didn't feel comfortable on sharing my memories. I wish I would have chosen a more happier memory to share with everyone. Overall, I really enjoyed this project and have used refinement the most. I believe I revised this project so many times, there was also many critique that many have gave me.
Link to Resonance of Remembrance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7x2QCIzixI&index=11&list=PLosWa4oR9i4rGK9X0NB7otDRxLR7qkjjy
This was the memory that I had shared about my dad. This memory is very personal to my personal perspective of my dad.
Link to my Mixtape: https://www.wevideo.com/hub#view/481514305
This is the mixtape I have created to show the songs that connect to personal memories of mine.