Wednesday 19 November 2014

Sound in animation




"Sound effects play an important role in conveying action. Music helps express emotion."
          Michael Geisler



Sound was first introduced to films in 1920's by the Warner Brothers. Since then sound and music has become an important part in assisting telling a story in films and animation.


 The music and sound adds to set the mood and atmosphere, helping the audience to convey whats happen and help them connect with the characters emotions.In some animations sound is used  to help bring the characters to life. Today if cartoons lacked sound, I think it would be hard to keep the audiences interest as it could be perceived as boring.



In groups of two's or three's our task was to create a podcast using audacity. Personally it took a while to understand the controls and settings, and I found the program rather confusing. However, we were able to make a podcast based on a topic of our choice, entertainment news.

Working with Rhodri and Caroline we created a podcast called "Global News". Whilst making the podcast we experiences some issues, stopping and starting the recording at the right time caused a few problems and took a few tries to perfect.
Within the app there's multiple features which ables you to change the voice by changing the tone and pitch. However, this takes time to master and can become frustrating as you could end up sounding like a chipmunk.


You'll be able to find the podcast on Rhodri's blog by following the link below.



You can download Audacity by following this link  audacity.sourceforge.net/

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