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Task two: Portfolio

Portrait

Task two: One Portrait

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Task twin: Portfolio

one Fashion Photography

one fashion photography

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                        RAEFORDTASK 2: MOODBOARD

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Task 2 (Audio Acquisition)

Part 1, My Script

In order to create my narrative, I had to play my chosen game. This helped with what I was going to say and what I wanted to comment on, in particular. Such as graphics quality, character movement, sounds, story quality, character abilities and any negative thoughts that I may have about the game.

When it came to writing my script I had to think of how to make it sound like a gaming podcast and a gaming radio review.

So I researched gamers on YouTube, finding Markiplier (a popular American YouTuber known for his lets plays), Jacksepticeye (an Irish YouTuber who also does lets plays), and TheEnglishSimmer (a British YouTuber known for her Sims families, reviews and challenges). Noting their style of happy and bouncy dialogue even in their lets plays of horror games, I chose to copy it as well as their style of YouTube account names.

Having chosen myself a listener-friendly nickname I started to construct a sort of character profile, deciding on a style speech and presentation, the type of show that they would create and which direction they would want to take this show/podcast.

Once this character was created, I started work on writing the script. I added in all my character’s quirks and edited my speech/writing style to their’s into my notes on the game, as well as adding in some research into the game itself.

Though I didn’t know which sounds I wanted to use and where to put them, I tried to outline where they would go by creating a new paragraph where I would naturally finish one point and move on to another.

Upon completion, I handed it into my lecturer for a proof read. Taking his thoughts and criticisms on board before making any and all edits.

Step 2, Recording/acquiring my Audio

Once my script was written and proofread, I moved on to recording my narrative for my Podcast/Radioshow. This consisted of finding a quiet place to record, reducing the chance of background noise. I was given access to my lecturer’s office and a bidirectional recorder to record my narrative.

I also recorded my gameplay on my laptop through the use of a gameplay recording program, NVIDIA ShadowPlay.

I had to source jingles sounds from the internet, as well as background music for parts of my recording and an exit tune/sound.

My audio clips and recordings:

Enigmatic - Sourced from http://www.bensound.com/ and is Royalty Free music

Instinct - Sourced from http://www.bensound.com/ and is Royalty Free music

LEGO Marvel’s Avengers - Recorded by myself through the use of NVIDIA ShadowPlay. Over 20 seconds of use would infringe on copyright so I will only use 20 seconds or less.

Power Failer Sound - Sourced from http://soundbible.com/ Credit to Mike Koenig who created this audio clip

Power-Up Sound - Sourced from http://soundbible.com/ and is a Royalty Free sound

My Narrative - Recorded by me

[theaveragecollegestudent]

Task 2

This task consists of acquiring/recording the sounds/narrative that I’m going to use in this Audio Editing Project. I have to gather the required digital material as defined in my plan. 

My recordings should be uncompressed and be of suitable quality in terms of digital audio format and sampling rate. This is because you lose quality as you compress any type of audio or video files, meaning already compressed audio loses more quality.

While acquiring the audio from the computer, regards should be given to ambient noise, electrically generated interference and health and safety issues in meeting the needs of the brief.

During and after acquisition I must:

ensure all recordings, whether these are going to be used or not, are clearly labelled and identified with a date, student name, class and project title

create a list of all acquired digital audio content and storage locations

ensure I follow current health and safety legislation and reference must be made of this in the log sheet

produce a log sheet of the acquired digital material, outlining any problems and how these were addressed

create a list of the copyright status of all elements of the audio and where required, records of copyright clearances.

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Task 2 || Rationale

Task 2 project to me was about pushing my initial understanding of depth of field. Taking inspiration from Uta Barth and learning the formalities and understanding of series from Arnaud Lesage. The approach for the 5 images were to almost copy Uta Barth’s approach to her composition. What makes these images speak, they draw attention to an out of focus content rather then the in focus, sliver of wall. The formal composition rests in a grid that is consistent throughout the rest of the photographs creating a sense of continuity making them look almost categorical. Documenting the relationship between wall and surroundings.

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TASK 2 || FINAL IMAGES

These were the final 5 images chosen from the 8 options. To mee these communicated a decent amount of care for composition, foreground and background. I tried to keep them un-edited as much as possible.