The Sound Design campus had an extraordinary experience when Ray Beckett paid us a visit last week. It was such a privilege just to meet him and sit in on a lecture prepared just for the Sound Design students, but then we found out that he was going to accompany us to do some field recording! We were able to ask about his experience while working on The Hurt Locker and he gave us some great tips on how to "open your ears" when recording on location. It was exciting to hear him say how lucky we were as students today to have all this portable technology available when recording. Speaking of which, we received our portable Zoom H2's and now we have to start building our own personal sound libraries. (Here's the link to the VFS Article)
(Ray giving us a presentation on his recording techniques, and later speaking about working on The Hurt Locker)
So along with meeting Ray Beckett, yesterday was the last day of Term 1! There was a bit of stress trying to put the finishing touches on the end of term projects, making sure you covered all the details but I think we all did ok. I was thinking of flying back to DC for the Summer Break, and I was really considering buying the ticket Monday (6/21) for $600, but when I checked the price the next day, it had jumped up to $1100! So yeah, I won't be back this break. So after a morning of backing up our projects and all our files we wanted to keep, we were pretty much free to do what we wanted. After grabbing a bite to eat, some of us went to our classmate's flat to finally kick back and relax after a stressful first 8 weeks.
I'll post more pics and I'm sure I'll finally have time over break to go over some of the places I've had awesome food!
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