First sound recording

I have gone through the soundtracks and I think we need to redo some of them, you are spitting in my ear he he.


So if we can agree on a time on Monday you can listen to your selfs, because on some files there was just one or a few words that where messed up by your spitting.

Over all it sounded good you all kept a nice sound level.

I will record Dan tonight and voice manipulate the files that does not need editing to Monday.

//Tessa

The old mastcrane in Karlskrona.

In connection to the building process of new docking constructions in Karlskrona, was also the magnificent mast crane built. This creation of stone has become the doubtless most characteristic building in this naval town - admired and famous far beyond the borders of Sweden.

The large mast crane was meant to be built already in the middle of the 18^th century and is mentioned first in a letter to the king in 1749, when it was decided to, instead of a regular crane; build this mast crane of stone. The price for this was approximately 6800 riksdaler. War and other obstacles got in between and the final drawings, made by the architect Fredrik Blom, were not approved until the 16^th of March 1803. Johan Lindström was later on responsible for the construction. The material was stone, except for the crane head, which was made of wood, under a copper roof. When the crane was finished, it stood 42 metres high and 12 metres across at the very bottom. It had nine storeys and one had to climb 200 steps to get to the top.

The mast crane was earlier used when putting the masts in place on the ships. To do this, 96 people manned four capstans, two on the first storey, and one on the second.

Today, the crane is a museum piece, and many contracts of ship-buildings, both military and civilian, have been signed in the conference room on the second floor. The interior of the conference room reflect a marine environment. From the crane head, one has a great view of both the shipyard and the town.

There is a story about a little boy, who got chased by a non-commissioned officer up in the crane. According to the story the boy should have yelled: “I have suffered, and you have waited a long time, open up, Satan, and you will get another little gull in your peak.”

A small update

Today we all had a meeting and we set some future dates for our project to work with. Tomorrow we'll be meeting up at 13.00 to record as much of Christian (Törnström) and Cecilia (general information voice) as possible, then we'll be meeting on Friday to record the rest of the voices. This will give us time to work with the sound files and Flash animations for next week. We've dealt up the work as such:

• Emelie is working on the layout for the book in InDesign
• Me and Christian work with Flash animations and I work with the contemporary pictures for the book
• Therese creates the sound files of the characters that are played by the rest of us and also works on the book
  
• Cecilia works with the old pictures on overhead paper for the book
  

Regarding the book, we want to be done with all the text and pictures for it on the 16th of May. The semacodes will be included in it later. And we're counting on being completely done with the project on May 21-22. That will give us a couple of days to work through any glitches and to test the tour ourselves.

See you all tomorrow!

- Eva.

second script

You should have received the second script. If not let me know..


read it please ....

Shipyard Wall

In the first fortification plan of the city, which was created in 1683, it was said that the entire city of Karlskrona would be surrounded by a great solid wall with more than fifty bastions. The reason for building such fortifications was to protect the naval fleet and the military buildings which had been started up in southern Trossö and Lindholmen in the 1680s. But then, as per usual, the question of cost and finance came up, as well as the amount of time it would take to build something as grand as this, and the plans changed. It was agreed upon that the wall would only encompass the docks and the shipyard, separating the military part of Karlskrona from the civil areas.

They finally agreed on four bastions and two towers connected through walls that would go straight through Trossö from the east to the west. Karl XI approved of the plan and they began building bastion Aurora to the far east and bastion Drottningshall to the far west by the bridge to Lindholmen. Between these two by the clocktower lay bastion Wachtmesiter and between it and bastion Aurora they created a four-sided bastion named Achilles. West from the bastion Wachtmeister they were supposed to build a bastion named Hector and north from Drottningshall they had plans for bastion Eolus, but both were never built.

The walls were built by the help of (Kronobergs- and Kalmarknektar? Knights?) and war prisoners from Russia and Poland, who helped for a cerain amount of money. The work went slowly, mostly because of a lack of economic resources. These were the times of the Nordic War after all, between the years of 1700-1721. However, the project eventually became very successful and the chief architect and supervisor Carl Hårleman praised it when he said that "the wall is a reflection on strength and beauty of all that Rome managed to accomplish in the happiest of its days". Large parts of the wall can still be seen in Trossö up until this day.

Trivia: The pavements around the shipyard wall were so bad that Gustav the III's carriage once got stuck in one of its holes when he was on his way to the spectacle house (where the old theatre was later built) and he was aided and set free by an enthusiastic crowd of people.

Next meeting: 8/5 10-12 in delta room.

Me and Eva turned up to Spikol’s meeting by it did not turn out as we thought. We did not get the remaining phones and we are going to get technical information on Tuesday.

However we did get some ideas on how we can create a flash movie with the ghost. We also got the idea from Spikol to use overhead paper (at Bokia 15 kr/st) and print one of the pictures on it, either the old or the new one, and then lay it over the other picture. I guess that we have to try and see which way that will work best.

He also wanted us to create a story that was engaging with the audience, so we were thinking about bringing in Lisa Schröder, and make the audience choose the ending of the story.

We also need to meet and construct a schedule for the last 3 weeks. So that we have time in the end to make changes if that is needed.

I will send out another draft of the script this weekend so that everyone can go over it and make there changes. I am still missing some translations from the shipyard book.

Websites to check out:

http://www.thirdview.org/3v/home/index.html

http://semacode.org/

Images & Sounds Part V

We also recorded some sounds inside the Marine Museum of seagulls, waves and workers, but since it's difficult to find a site that will allow me to upload them, I will just send them to you instead! They work with RealPlayer and Nokia Media Player which comes with our lovely new phones. Tomorrow we have a meeting with Daniel Spikol which only I and Therese will be able to attend, so I hope the rest of you will be grateful for it! :P We think it's going to go well anyway, Therese has printed out the script and the great ghost photos Emelie has made, so we're ready and organized. We'll ask Daniel about the semicodes, which is our main concern since we want to use them in combination with our audio files. That's all for now!

- Eva.