Process Piece: Boarding a Plane

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    I wanted to continue my experiments with sound production, so for this piece I decided to record the audio track of the process of boarding a plane. I went home for the weekend to visit my family and I used the natural opportunity to record my travels. I set my constraints to what I could record on my phone while in the airport and on the airplane. I also used completely natural sounds. I did not specifically set up or doctor any of the sounds during the recording process. The only editing tool I used was trimming down the length of files and small fades at the beginning and end of the clip to point out the beginning and the end of the story more drastically to the audience. However, every sound is part of my actual experience in the airport and boarding the plane.

    Since moving to Utah for school, flying home to Colorado has become a more frequent and exciting process for me. It was not difficult to produce a work that was personal and meaningful to me as an artist, but it was more interesting to be the one in charge of setting some of the constraints. Studying the form of audio only was just as big of an adventure to me as flying on an airplane. I still have a lot to learn, but I can already see the power that sound has to captivate and enthrall an audience more fully. While I can see the technical benefits of learning sound production for a theatre classroom, it is also intriguing for me to consider using sound as both a teaching tool and learning opportunity for English students. It is the perfect way to explore a new medium that can add to a storyteller’s impact, but it is also a form that not many students are familiar with. For this reason, I think it would be a great way to teach principles of media literacy using sound projects because students would need to engage in the entire process of seeking to understand more about the genre, looking at the techniques and artists’ motivations, and trying to apply some of those techniques or ideas into the student’s personal work from the beginning to the end. It could be a great example project that can teach concepts that apply to all types of media.