Comments on: Inspirations / Distractions – Gordon McGladdery

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Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:37:06 +0000

[…] this article, written by Gordon McGladdery (@AShellinthePit) for the Designing Sound Blog, called Inspirations / Distractions. It’s a short text where he talks about the how many of us keep waiting for the inspiration […]

By: Luca Fusi

Luca Fusi — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 04:15:01 +0000

In reply to tim.

Tim–I do this as often as I can, and yeah, works a treat. Great mention.

Whenever I’m having trouble getting rolling, one surefire way to force myself out of it’s to just start dropping library sounds onto the timeline. No consideration for quality, rough attempt at sync–just put something there.

Now, when you roll back, there’s at least the barest shape of a sound in place. But you can’t leave it there; you’ve got to fix it. So you search more, or you pitch it, or you replace the sound.

And then you’ve got to fix that..

On and on. I think it plays to the same thing that makes it easier to pick up on a half-finished sound the following day.

Not always the method I use, because I get better results out of lots of noodling and cutting up later (when time allows for palette creation), but useful in a pinch.

By: tim

tim — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 03:27:01 +0000

A great tactic I read (by a writer, but it still applies) for getting straight back into your work zone/head space is that when you are nearing the end of a days work, purposefully leave a ‘rough edge’ ie something that is obviously wrong and needs fixing or more work, but that can be done relatively easily.
This way when you start work the next morning, you can dive straight into a task that is easy to complete, and by the time you’ve done it you are back in the zone and can dive into more complex or difficult work. Reduces the opportunity for ‘block’ or procrastinating…