For my new soundscript, I want it to make the audience (my english 121 classmates) empathize with the main character, who is doing the voice over narration. As some of you know, A Clockwork Orange is features very disturbing themes. Thus, the whole movie revolves around one young man, with all his actions and words making him ever more disturbing. Hopefully, with this new sound-script, I will take away this disturbing element in the clip. The way I plan to achieve this is by changing the tone of his voice in the narration. In the original, the emotion in the words dont match at all with his actions. Hopefully, by making the emotion in his words match up more with the narration I can take away some of that disconcerting feeling you get from watching the original.

 My research question is “how does changing the tone (specifically, making it more emotional) change how people percieve the narrator?”

My main claim for my first major paper is that something as small as changing intonations can have a great effect on how someone views the clip. Its risky, because many people would say that something as small as that would have no real effect on the overall clip. But I say that the emotional cues are an integral part of the overall feel of the clip. the intonation could be all the difference between feeling one way as opposed to another toward this clip.

My claim is important because it shows just how important sound is. The fact that a change in something as small as intonation can give two completely separate feelings toward the narrator, shows that sound definitely plays a major role in interpreting a clip.  My sound script will serve to augment the clip, because it will be showing how open sound is to interpretation. How changing one little aspect of the clip can turn the overall feel of the clip upside down. I will definitly try to use Davis’ “Acoustic Cyberspace” in support on my new sound-script. Currently, I have no questions about anything. But I’m sure that will change soon.