Daniel made some tests for the mirror room and for the windmill space. They can be listened to here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8Zr9BZHamItZFY4aDIwSXJYN1k&usp=sharing
When listening to the mirror room sounds I made the following list of how I would see the sound and lighting synchronized:
I am now writing the voice over which will be playing all throughout the first two rooms. It will be composed of quotes from the play recited by the actor who will be playing Jonah. The first room will only have the voice of Jonah and some static from the TV with very little ambient sound. The revolution sounds would start playing when the light would dim to complete darkness in the first room and then the light would slowly start shining above the windmill.
While people would be seated on the bench in the mirror room the ambient sound would be very subtle and after a few minutes when the light would shine on the well the well sounds would slowly start to play leading the visitors into the well space. When the light is dimming on the well the light in Jonah’s room will come on and the visitors will encounter Jonah endlessly sweeping sand off the floor which will then be blown back by a fan.
Regarding the speakers, Daniel recommended that I get these at first but I did not win the bid for them:
After that he recommended to get these for the first and last room as they did not need very powerful speakers:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Inspire-T10-Multimedia-Speakers/dp/B000WQIKJ0/ref=zg_bs_429889031_6
So I got them. They seem quite good but we would have to find a wire long enough as they would need to be one in each room.
Then for the second room I got these:
There would be the same wire issue with these ones as well but Daniel said he would find the right cables.
On the Saturday before the deadline, Daniel made the finished sounds which can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8Zr9BZHamItUloyYV81cGY1OEU&usp=sharing
The indications that I gave him were:
Room 1 – radio static that would slowly tune into the sound of marching soldiers and then into the Communist national anthem – around 5-7 minutes.
Room 2 – Windmill sounds for when people look through the crack in the door and see the small porcelain windmill. Followed by Ceausescu’s speech from right before the Revolution which was interrupted by people rioting. This would build up after which it will slowly dim to quiet while the light above the wooden bench would come on. There would be a few minutes of quiet and then an atmospheric sound would start building up and creating tension (my way of explaining it is not very good as I don’t have much sound knowledge but Daniel found the right sound for it) after which we would start hearing water drops as from a well when people would see the light shinning through the crack in the doors where the well illustration would be.
Room 3 – For room 3 I eventually decided to not have any ambient sound as I was thinking that there would be static sound coming from the TV and we would meet Jonah who would be sweeping the sand off the rug.
The final sound for the presentation video can be found here. I used some bits from Daniel’s sounds but most of it is mixed by me using Adobe Audition CS5.5. The samples were taken from freesound.org:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8Zr9BZHamItb3lnNXBrM2V5WjQ&usp=sharing
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