Sound Meeting

Today was our meeting with Pip from Creative Sound Design course. Since she had missed the 2nd pitch i decided to basically go through our presentation, discussing the design of the characters, environments and texturing we wished to achieve from the piece. We then played the story animatic and then talked through it so it was clear what the piece was about. I mentioned to Pip that i don't currently have an exact idea for sound at this stage, but that i thought the piece would lend itself quite nicely to a light and bouncy soundtrack, not a fully blown orchestral piece. In terms of the rest of the sound...i was pretty honest that all the foleys/voices etc needed re-recording as they aren't the best of quality and the sound levels are all over the place. Im confident she'll be able to achieve this though in the time frame we have for the project. We discussed how some of the foleys (such as the footsteps) need to sound less realistic as they haven't gelled very will with the animatic and will need to emphasis the fun/comical quality of the story.

Pip took some notes and a copy of the animatic and said she had a few ideas up her sleeve so im looking forward to seeing what she produces for us over the coming weeks. We filled her in on the extensiveness of the animation process so she was fully aware of our schedule and roughly when we should have modeling complete, animation etc etc.

Pips taken away the materials and said she'd contact me Monday with her action plan which i look forward to seeing. As for updates, I've said the group would keep in contact either once or twice a week with her to get updates and make sure everything's ok.

Anyway its great to have PIp on board as part of the team and Im really looking forward to what ideas she's gonna bring to the project!

Thanks Pip :)