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ADVENTURE TIME

I wasn't quite sure how i'd do this. But I did.

I chose the Paper Plane (option 2) because it was a little bit bizarre and I was curious to see if I would get lost trying this. In the beginning I threw the paper plane a couple of times and it just kept on flying back towards my house. At that point I could have taken a hint and went back inside but I kept throwing. Once a direction was chosen by my magical paper aeroplane.

Once I'd gotten to the end of the first street, my instruction was to walk "westerly", so I practically had to do a 360 degree turn and walk back the direction I'd come. All of the streets in my neighbourhood are long and windy so it took a couple of minutes to get to the first street. I passed a lot of street tags on the way.

From this point I had to turn "left then right". There was a lot of greenery on this street. It had a really natural feel to it. Ive never walked around this street before and I liked it so I think i will walk there again in the future.

After turing right, I had to take the first "left then walk another 100m". The first half of this stretch was quite, hilly. No people, not much green. Very brown and bland. I didn't like it. I had to walk around a fallen bin and a fallen tree branch. After that I saw that the environment kind of warmed up a bit. There was some cars driving past. I got beeped at by a stranger! Which is always offsetting and uncomfortable.

I then arrived at a familiar street that I realised that I walk home on everyday from university. It was easy to "get back to my original point using an alternative route" because the road I had turned "left" onto goes straight home. My entire journey took around 22 minutes in total. The streets were very long and its also the reason why there are fast times lapses in my 'Adventure Time' video above. It was good to be home :)

SOUND PROJECT

For my Sound Project, I have chosen to conceptualise the colour GREEN because it is my favourite colour.

I did a little bit of self reflection on my feelings associated with this colour.

-Nature/natural
-Relaxation
-Fresh
-Raw
-Tranquil
-Healthy
-Real; are all qualities I brain stormed that could be used to describe this colour.

I also had a look online, researching "How the colour green makes you feel".  I was interested to see
'Jealousy' as a feeling. I guess that can easily be associated with being "green with envy". It also outlined that:

-Green symbolises nature
-Is a symbol of fertility
-Has a calming effect
-Relieves stress
-Restful
-Soothing
-Health-giving

After collaborating my ideas with the research I'd conducted, I thought of utilising my skill in creating a sound environment by combining sound elements of that environment. My first thought is to use my feeling associated with Green and pairing them with ideas of fertility (mother nature) and naturalistic landscape that is both calming and soothing; a forrest.

Due to difficulty downloading Audacity, I decided to use my default sound editor on my MacBook, Garage Band. I found this to fit well with what I want to do. The sound effects that I used were all downloaded using an MP3 converter from YouTube. I imported the sounds of A bird chirping, water dripping, soft rain, twigs crunching and bamboo/trees creaking. After doing this I began to 'Split' the sound tracks and move them around into a random order to create more of a natural sounding space, so as not for my sound creation to sound like a repetitive loop. I shortened a lot of sounds to make them more of a singular effects which I copied and moved around to use again.

After I was happy with how it sounded I compressed and exported the experimental, Green environment piece to my iTunes to then upload to SoundCloud.

This is Green.

Please click this hyper link to hear GREEN!