Homework 2: Letter From Brooks
Monolgue from The Shawshank Redemption
Mihika Hemmady
Binaural Mix
I chose a monologue from The Shawshank Redemption. In the monologue,
Brooks, a man who has been in jail for a crime for the majority of his
life (~50 years) has just been released. He now experiences the world with
a lot of confusion and fear because of all of the changes around him that
he is not used to. In the end, he kills himself, because he does not feel
comfortable in the real world. This scene is a letter that Brooks writes
to his friends in jail, before killing himself. I tried to make the sound
effects accentuate what Brooks is narrating, and used the 4 different
speakers to create a feeling that sounds are coming all around him that
are jarring in the beginning. I also used the panning to move his voice
around to make it seem like he is narrating the letter from the different
locations he talks about in the letter. In addition, I used reverb effects
to help distinguish the different locations he is in. I also used reverb
effects on the sound effects (like the car noises in the beginning) to
create an effect that makes it seem like they are far away.
Letter
From Brooks
4 Mono Files
Channel 1
Channel 2
Channel 3
Channel 4
Chuck Files
Binaural4.ck
binauralSlates.ck
StereoRecorder.ck