Ryan Sandson
Living for the shenanigansCategory: Digital Media Introduction
Scene Composition — The Visual and Auditory Harmony of City Lights
For the Look, Listen Analyze assignment of this unit, I chose to examine the ending scene of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, a romantic comedy about a poor man falling in love with a blind woman. First, I will talk about the visual and auditory aspects separately and then explain how they work as a whole […]
Read More »The Anatomy of a Scene — How to Read a Movie
To start out this unit, we were tasked with reading How to Read a Movie, an article written by Roger Ebert. This post shall go over some of the most notable lessons found within his article, which we shall use to go through notable scenes in the near future. Foreground and Background Foreground has a […]
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A Reflection on Audio Storytelling — Unit Summary
Ira Glass on Audio Storytelling I started off the unit listening to Ira Glass and what he has to say about his work, afterwords writing a summary of his teachings you can find here. A Radio Story About a Radio Station – Spooked Edition The next part of this unit was to listen to a […]
Read More »The Sound of Public Transportation
For the final sound assignment bank post, I turned away from nature and towards technology. More specifically, transportation. Santiago Chile holds many different forms of public transportation, and this track compiles a few of them for you! We start off as though entering a bus, as we begin a drive through town. You can hear […]
Read More »The Sound of Nature — Easter Island
Sound assignment bank — Nature travelogue For this second assignment, I decided to focus even more on the sounds of nature than the previous post (especially since that’s the prompt of this one). To do this, I pulled audios of a couple animals we frequently encountered on our trip to Easter Island. The first animal […]
Read More »A Trip Through Sound — Rapa Nui
Sound assignment bank — A Trip Through Sound For this assignment, I tried to focus in on some of the most memorable sounds of Easter Island, at least from what I remember. I wanted this track to illustrate the outdoors and being in the open air. This is why I began this audio with the […]
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What Audio Does for Horror — Spooked Story
Episode Summary The Haunting of Radio Centro, of Season 5 Episode 13 of the Spooked Podcast, tells the tale of an employee named Guillermo and his encounter with a spirit at the radio station he works for. If being haunted by an angry spirit wasn’t enough, he discovers that he has psychic powers that augment […]
Read More »Lessons on Audio Storytelling
Teachings of Ira Glass Ira Glass is an award-winning public radio host, most known for his work in This American Life and Morning Edition, All Things Considered. For this unit, I watched his 4-part YouTube series, “Ira Glass on Storytelling“, and here are the main points he made. The Anecdote and the Reflection In the […]
Read More »Reflections on Design — Unit Summary
What is Design? Design works to create a presentation of a certain concept in an intentional and effective manner. This can include aesthetics but also goes deeper into the functionality and purpose of what’s being presented. Design is the creative and practical vision of whatever it is meant to portray, and it is embedded in […]
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