During the performance there were moments where sound effects where played. Me and Aimee played sound effects using Ableton Live 12 combined with Ableton push as a soundboard. We played sounds like fart sounds, drum rolls, Vine booms, Rizz sounds and other sounds relating to the scene. We also played ambient sounds for some scenes and for other scenes there would be music played in the background. for example we played hospital ambiance for the Hospital scene and for Boarder Control we played comedic German folk music.
I think we did a great job at delivering the Horrible Histories style because we got the audience to interact and laugh during the performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the rehearsals and PLW (Foundation Learning) we performed it in B25 so I had all the sound levels set to the speakers that were in that room. When we performed at the primary school we used a different speaker so I had to adjust the sound levels there on the spot before the show started. I also had to use the volume slider for some of the sounds as there were too loud or too quiet. Music volumes had to be adjusted too during change overs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We got some feedback from one of the teachers at the primary school. She thanked us for performing at their school and that the children will be visiting Eden Camp. We didn’t get too much verbal feedback but we could tell when the performance wasn’t engaging with the audience. The beginning of the performance specifically Ration Chef the audience engaged with the scene and laughed at times same with Boarder Control, but for the rest of the scenes the audience seemed uninterested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To know when to play the right sound we were given a script of the whole performance by the performing arts group, We annotated the script to know when to play the correct sound effect.
During the primary school performance Me and Aimee were given a cue by the the performance group to know when to play the countdown timer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me and Aimee looked on YouTube and TikTok for funny sounds used in comedy shows and cartoons, we looked at shows like Horrible Histories, SpongeBob and other comedic shows.
We knew we wanted a lot of fart sounds so I dowloaded a bunch of different fart sounds,
For the music we watched the performance without music and later chose what music would fit in with that scene, for Ration Chef we chose intense Master Chef theme but it didn’t fit well and the scene a intense fast pace feel to it so we changed it to a more funny stereotypical Italian chef song, Border Control was a tough one because I was struggling to figure out what type of music\/background ambiance would fit in with the scene. At first it was nature ambiance but again it didn’t fit well and wasn’t funny, so we searched funny German folk music which worked more with the scene and it made it more funny.
Women at work was an easy one its set in an office so I added office ambiance like typewriters and people talking in the background <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We rehearsed cues multiple times to get the timing right these would be in the forms of certain words or body language, We also annotated the script to know when to play the right sound at the right time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For every school we went to we performed in different sized rooms, that would range from large assembly halls to a classroom so I had to change to volume based on the size for the room. I would also have the speaker facing the audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the song choices were accurate to the scenes especially the last the scene “party” it had songs that were from 1940’s that were played at the end of the war, I picked Vera Lynn We’ll meet again and The ink spots I don’t want to set the world on fire. The other song choices were a bit more modern like the Ration chef having a stereotypical Italian chef song and Border control having German folk music.
The sound choices were also modern with having fart sounds, burping, drum rolls, vine booms and Rizz sounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the performance the engagement with the audience would be in the forms of laughter and cheering as some of the sounds the children recognised from social media memes. sounds like farts, vine booms and rizz sounds got the lots of laughs and recognition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When these issues came up I was calm and I knew how to quickly fix them . The main problems were if the sound levels were alright and weren’t over powering the dialog. I had Aimee or Pav and Lewis to sit in the audience showing signals to turn up or down the volume of the songs or sound effects. One other problem came up with one of the sounds being too loud in the end, It was the buzzer in Ration Chef, as it got to the end it was too loud so I fixed that with Lewis quicky before the start of the play, We put a limiter to the sound so it wont go past the volume we set it at. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me and Aimee put all the cables behind us making sure no cables were around or in front of the table so that no one will trip over them.
We plugged everything into the cable extender including MacBook charger, Ableton push power cable and Speaker cable.
all of these cables were behind us at all time making sure no cables were in the way of the actors or other people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We all check if we had every equipment packed, We were quick at packing everything as we had everything organised and ready to pack up. We had a case to put smaller equipment in, including MacBook, cables and mini launchpads. for the Ableton push we had a box that came with the push to put it back in safely and for the speaker we carried that after everything was packed up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n