A Critique of the Proposed National Education Policy Reform
Soundscapes
1. Soundscapes
• Black= What Sounds I can see in the picture
• Red= How I could make these sounds myself
2. Bar
• Conversations,
chatter and
laughter. This
sound could be
made by
recording from a
busy location.
• Glasses, clinking.
• Footsteps. Record
my footsteps of
me walking on
wooden floor.
• Ice being poured
in glasses. Record
myself pouring • Appliances such as fridge, soda gun’s, washing machines and
ice cubes into freezers making sounds. Either record each individual
glasses. machine to make the sounds all together or record a large
• Fizzy drinks machine room such as an IT room which would be similar to
fizzing. Record noise.
the sound of me • Traffic from outside. Record the sound of traffic through
emptying a coke some kind of material, not necessarily a house to get the
bottle into a required distant sound of traffic.
glass. • Taps.
3. Woods
• The sound of water rushing. Current
of the stream.1: record the natural
sound of a stream. 2: pour water on
to a tilted surface to get the rushing
sound of the water.
• Wildlife, such as rabbits, birds deer
ect.
• The rustle of leaves brushing against
each other. Get some leaves attached
to branches and experiment by
rubbing them against each other to
make the desired rustling noise.
• The sound of tree branches croaking. • Planes, helicopters possibly flying by.
• The sound of wind passing through • The rustling of foliage such as grass
the gaps in the treeline. This sound twigs snapping ect.. Get hold of
effect can be made by blowing some twigs and grass of some kind
through your lips. and walk through it deliberately
• Insects making the sounds of twigs breaking
and rustling.
4. Class Room
• The sound of general
banter between
students. Can be
recorded by going
into any lesson and
recording them.
• Students talking
Same as above.
• Teacher talking Same
as above.
• Teacher writing on
board with pen. I
could get a chalk
marker and practice • Sound of clock ticking. Record a clock.
writing on a surface • Sound of paper being written on and pencils and pens
of some kind until I scribbling. Get a pen and paper an scribble down on it and
get a sound that write to get the write scribbling pattern of someone who is
matches the one the writing stuff down.
teacher makes. • The sound of people zipping bags and pencil cases.
• Sound of projector • Chair legs scraping. Deliberately scrape my chair across the
machine floor to record the desired sound.
5. Living room
• Clock ticking. Record a
ticking clock, it is
possible to make the
sound with my own
mouth clicking.
• Birds outside. Record
birds through some
kind of surface such as
a wall to get the
desired distant feel of
the sound.
• Traffic. Same as above.
• Pedestrians walking
past windows. Make
someone walk along
the wall which I’m on • Door opening and closing upstairs or in the houses
the other side of to get next door. Record downstairs as someone opens and
the desired footsteps closes doors in a room next to me and then a room
sound. above me.
• Wind blowing through • Floorboards creaking above. Record someone as they
the fireplace. This walk across a creaky floorboard.
sound can be made • The fan spinning. Record a fan spinning.
with my lips
6. Plane
• Snoring. Record someone
snoring.
• Turbulence. Record multiple
items shaking to represent the
turbulence aboard a plane.
• Engines. To record this sound
either record a plane engine
or use a really powerful fan to
try and make a similar noise.
• Tannoy announcements.
Record a voice through a
tannoy speaker.
• Laughter and other manmade
voice sounds. Record general
sounds made by people on a • Loose change being exchanged for snacks. Record
plane . loose change falling onto a surface to represent
• Screams of panic someone emptying their spare change onto a table.
• Trolley rolling along isle. Get • Food
any kind of trolley and record • Drink
its sound as you roll it along a
carpeted floor. Most plane
floors are carpeted.
7. Sea
• Bubble noises. Record
this found by holding
your breath
underwater.
• Jaws theme tune.
Found in the ITunes
store.
• Sound of oxygen tanks
• Not much more.