Sound Design Talk with Jan Meinema

In this talk we had a visit from Jan Meinema who is a senior lecturer at Bath Spa University. He had a long chat to us about sound design and how he's worked on animations and created sounds to fit in to the animations. I felt like the talk was quite informative but also his performance and the way he talked to us was quite dull. He did get me thinking about my animations and how the sound can change the effect of the animation, and how useful sound can be in my future animations.

I've used sound a lot in my animations and I know how effective it can be but I've mostly been quite comical with the sound so I feel like I haven't thought and carried it out correctly so that I get the best impact with sound in my animations. Jan then moved on to different sound recording devices and what device would be better use in different locations and occasions, and that you should maintain the same distance from the thing you're recording and the mic so that the sound in consistent throughout and so that you don't hear any reflective sounds in the space you're recording in.

Jan Meinema also showed us an animation so that he could demonstrate how sound can be used in an animation. He showed us an animation called 'Once Upon a Candle' by The Animation Workshop, and it demonstrates how sound can be used to create perspective and how you can zoom in to a character or a specific area of a scene by using sound. I found this animation interesting because it also showed us how sound can be used to make someone or something sound and feel like they're inside of something which is a hard thing to create if you don't know how to do it.