Sound in our Documentary:

 From editing this documentary there is a clear lack of sound in the moments when no video is playing, these moments are found when we are scrolling through a feed and searching the web. In these parts all you hear is the clicking of the mouse and typing of the keyboard. Rodgers makes it clear that sound in the past has been undervalued and neglected, when in fact it is just as important as the image we see. This is most certainly true and although there is a clear lack of sound in our documentary, this has been more of an active decision rather than something we have forgotten about. 

I wanted to highlight the sound as for our desktop doc I believe it works really well. I believe it immerses you into the screen and what you are seeing. As you watch the break in the silence tends to come from familiar sounds of a mouse click or typing on a keyboard and this is important as at the end of the day we are attempting to replicate the day to day experience of being on your laptop or pc. If we were to add unnecessary sounds and music, it would take you out of this world and consequently would make us fail in our attempt to replicate it. When we do hear the cover of 'The Internet is for Porn' in a short sequence we see the mouse turn on spotify and play the song through there. This is the only time we hear music in the doc and as it is accessed through spotify it maintains the world we have created. We also hear dips in sound when we open another tab and a video or the interview is still occurring. By muffling it down a little bit, it replicates what we as people do when online searching. We click off things with the video still playing, but our focus fades on it so we don't actively listen as closely. This is something else done to further the desktop world we have created.

Overall, the active decision to use less sound has benefited our desktop documentary as it replicates the world we are replicating.