Look! There is a man trapped in that box! He can’t get out!
I wanted this little sketch to reference that of what mimes do. I find it very intriguing how they can make illusions out of nothing.
The only issues I had with the project was I wanted to add an audio piece to the video. However, adding the audio made the illusion less apparent and displayed more of a man just banging on his camera and screaming for help (Not so good when recording in the dorm halls). I was experimenting with trying to make the audio sound more muffled, but I couldn’t get a sample that I liked. Would anyone have any recommendation to make a piece of audio sound more enclosed (almost like the audio is trapped)?
To make the audio more “trapped” I would try making the audio sound muffled – maybe by knocking on a hard surface near your covered phone/laptop speakers, and then recording yourself and import the audio to max !
Nice concept! I could totally see this becoming pretty interesting with a kinect to make all these sound effects for mime-like actions.
This is a very intriguing interactive piece. It’s cool that there are different sounds for each side you “tap”.
If you want something more trapped I would use a mastering audio editor, something like reaper, and find the sound that would come out right. I really like the concept and it reminds me of when Dr Doofenshmirtz made a device to trap mines in actually invisible boxes.
To be honest, I’m not sure you even need audio since mimes usually don’t talk. Something you could do instead is have the camera show some mime makeup on the user’s face
This idea was very creative! Maybe covering the microphone with a material would make it more muffled (like cloth or felt)?