Overall I’m very happy with how my project turned out. In total it’s 96 channels long and 18 minutes in length, although I did expect it to go into the 100’s, and covers a vast array of different sounds tonalities, textures and ambiences.

I think that individually as well as together, each chapter of the soundscape works really well. In each section it tells it’s own story yet also helps the entirety of the soundscape develop as a whole, and as shown the the final chapter of contrast, they all work together seamlessly. I did this project completely on my own by choice, a choice I started to slightly regret halfway through due to the problem of my Mac breaking and coming to a halt on production for about two weeks which took me back quite a lot, and I had to rush a bit to catch up on lost time. But I chose to do it on my own as I had my own image and idea for what I wanted to do and how I wanted my production method to work, and on my own, of course nobody can argue with me.

My collaboration with Cristiana I think is still going strong, I believe she is very happy with the work that I have produced, she gave me a few pointers on the direction of the narrative in ‘War’ and how I could possibly adapt this to intensify this chapter. I think before I send her the final piece for her to compose her video to, I will go back and revise this chapter and experiment with different forms of narratives to really emphasise the power withheld in this chapter.

I think the area’s on this project I could definitely have worked on better, would for one the planning stage. I was very eager to get my headphones on and start producing with all these idea’s floating around my head and with full creative control for once I’m not working to another producers brief! I think what I could have done better would be to speak to Cristiana more and discuss topics like narratives and viewpoints for the chapters and how I could best utilise them and then construct a storyboard of how my soundscape is going to flow. Yes I created chapters and markers within Logic telling me where I needed to incorporate certain key features, but I think an actual storyboard would give the soundscape more structure.

I think also next time I would set myself a budget, how much I would want/need to spend on buying certain VST’s for the project, and making sure of course that they actually work with my DAW of choice!

Finally and probably most importantly, I would make sure I have a back up of EVERYTHING I produce, as when my Mac broke I was uncertain if I’d had lost of my work and files! Luckily I managed to recover them all but I can’t be professional relying on luck.

I would definitely work with sound art again as I feel it provides a strong context and gives you a lot to work with, I find it very interesting and very versatile, and it’s production method is very irregular to what I would normally construct, not always done in a linear timeline, elements are offset. I think their are definitely elements within this soundscape that could be improved but also I think it’s all down to perspective that I could argue that I had chosen these narratives deliberately through my choice in distancing the listener from a first person point of view and more of an overseer.   (The total Soundscape)