Christmas Soundscape

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It is Christmas morning, the house is quiet because everyone is still asleep, only the constant sound of the big clock in the living room is heard. One of the kids begins to wake up, you hear them shuffle a little trying to get out of bed. They walk out their room and open the door to another room, you hear a little bit of shuffling as though the kid is shaking their sibling awake. The kids rush downstairs and start moving around the presents they find under the tree. You hear the parents begin to wake up and move into the kitchen, where they begin to make coffee. In the background, you can hear the sounds of the kids moving things around and laughing. After the parents have finished making their coffee, you hear them sit down. Then the sounds of packages being moved around, wrapping paper being torn, children laughing and their sounds of shock as they open present after present. This is the idea of a perfect Christmas. The soundscape uses only the sounds of Christmas to communicate what …show more content…
One of the essential pieces of sound that I used was the sound of a clock ticking. The clock is the only sound that continues through the entire scene. It is used to create the idea of time and space, its own temporal dynamic (Chion 10). I also used the sounds of the family walking to convey these two aspects. The different family members walk for certain periods of time (00:26). This indicates how long it takes them to travel from one room to the other and how far away it is from where they started. Sometimes they walk faster changing the tempo and changing the temporality (00:39). The last sound aspect that I addressed was how loud certain sounds were at specific times. For instance, how loud the sounds of the children laughing were, suggesting that one of them was closer to where the parents were than the other. These aspects of sound address the concepts of time and

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