March 31st, 2010: All’s well that ends well
WE ARE FINISHED! yay! The stress is over because we have now finished our part of the radio play.
Our last scenes were recorded today and our last sound effects as well. I brought in a couple of twigs to use for the heel breaking sound and I actually didn’t get too many weird looks seeing as I was carrying sticks around school. Laura dropped them on the ground and kicked them to debugify them, just for good measure.
We used an instrument that you smack… I forget the name, to do the punching sounds. Steph was recording Deanna doing the punching and it sounded like they were beating each other up. It was quite funny.
We listened to David Hodges music to try to put the songs in the appropriate scenes. We recorded more feet shuffling as well. Big thanks to Mr. Hodgeson, our music teacher, for letting us record the sounds of chimes and a piano crashing. He made a joke in the music room, asking younger students if they wouldn’t mind helping out by picking up the piano off the ground and letting it drop to the floor. Some actually volunteered!
We also got some class recordings of people at the prom saying FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! From next door it was quite convincing and we were startled by it for a second. Thanks so much to Martin, Brendan, Jackie and especially Martin’s uncle, for putting together the Success for All piece. We were able to play it on our boom box and it was EXCELLENT! Just the right note (no pun intended) of hilarity and satire. And Jackie has the most amazing voice!
Thanks so much to everyone and especially Ms. Chalmers for keeping us on our toes, Courtney, and our sound people!
You know that it’s been quite an interesting and exciting project when your teacher is telling you to start throwing stuff around for potential sound effects. 
