PRP artifact 5

The fifth artifact is called Moose-men. It is a surreal scene of lanky characters with moose looking heads and an elongated dogged faced character. They are, some sat, some standing in a sort of scribbled surfaced room space. They are playing on game consoles. One is playing the game Pong and the other console is playing Space Invaders. There is the dog-man standing playing with a yo-yo. The scene does not have much Foley to be acted out, maybe a couple of feet movements. But the characters are quite static and most of the textures are of this wierd black pen scribble. So this artifact is filled with sound effects made on synthesizer or sound making programs. For example the use of the Subtractor in Reason where sounds can be made from scratch with a good level of control and ability. The scene is very surreal so fictive sounds  give the scene a sense of bizarreness.

Three layers of wavy oscillating tones give the space its weird feel.

Then the alien like characters are communicating in a way which was recorded by flicking a combs teeth. The comb has bigger and  thiner teeth which produce different pitched sounds. So by switching  and combining both becomes their foreign way of talking.

The noise from the yo-yo the dog-man is playing with, was made with a digital camera opening and cutting the sound down.

To give life to the consoles, I made some sound effects  using the program Reason which has a synthesizer called Subtractor. This enables me to create a multitude of sounds from scratch.

Overall this scene has many dreamy qualities to it and is interesting as far as sound because if you are dealing with a fictive subject, one can really go crazy on the sounds he produces as we are not trying to make something sound realer than it is. You just have to know when to be satisfied with a sound and not overwork it.