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