When we initially started this project, we were given the theme of ‘Change’. Although the theme eventually did end up changing to be whatever we wanted to take a piece about, I decided to stick with the original brief and record some change coming out of slot machines in an arcade, taking the brief rather literally (this was also a brilliant excuse to have a nice day out at the seaside which I rather enjoyed!)

As it was quite a last minute idea for me to go on the trip, I didn’t have time to take out a Zoom portable recorder so I had to record everything on my phone. I was initially very sceptical of this but decided to just press ahead anyway, and I found that I was quite happy with the results. Whilst I don’t think they were up to the same standard as a more professional recording device, I think that within a mix they would sound good enough to use.

Below are a couple of examples of recordings I made.

I think that the first, longer one could be used as a general background soundscape, although it is quite low quality. The second clip would sound great and I actually practiced using a noise gate and EQ to cut out all of the background noise and I think I now have a very usable piece of audio that can be placed over other clips to hide the small amount of noise that is still there:

I also saw a couple of really creepy looking arcade games that inspired me to maybe make something a little spooky: