Extra Credit: Sound symposium

The session that I went to was the Sound and Image At Play Together: Sound Design as collaborations where the participants showed us 3 minutes long pieces of films they have produced. They also talked about the audio and sound archives they have used for their films. However, I think the most interesting part of the session is when one of the participants showed this short clip of her project on Sound Design for Future Films which she added this sound effect (I don’t know how to spell it) to the movement of a snail. This is very fascinating to me because I would never thought of combining exciting sounds to snail movement since snail doesn’t have too many movements to begin with. However, after adding the effect, the snail’s movements have seemed to become very active even though it’s really not but it really showed me how sound can make a huge difference on video or film. Another project that she has mentioned is “crispy cell” where she added crispy sounds to sheep sex cells fertilizing. This is very interesting to me because as someone that’s taking biology class right now, I’ve always had to watch videos on cells but I never found them to be too interesting since the movement is always at a slow pace and there’s not much to it except for voice over explanations. However, when I imagined how a video on cells fertilization with crispy sounds would be like, I thought how fun it would be for biology students like me to watch educational videos on cell movements if they all have fun sounds added to them. The session was overall very interesting whereas it’s showed me something I’ve never thought of like the “crispy cells”.