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Worldbuilding Professional PortfolioMain MenuWorldbuilding Design PortfolioDesignerLaura works as a designer with spatial design, sound, interactive UI/UX, animation, film, and production.FacilitatorWorldbuilders need to collaboratively work in teams, helping lead the project toward aims and create an environment for productive interactions.Research + TheoryResearch and theory are integral aspects of the worldbuilding process.Qualifying Exam PortfolioA brief guide to this portfolio project, with more focused media links.Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2
Sound Design
12017-02-27T03:19:49-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2156549Sound Design Workgallery2017-02-27T03:42:02-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2Laura's sound design work began with her first film in 2002, and she has remained dedicated to sound design ever since. Sound is sometimes overlooked despite its expressive capabilities, and her passion stems from the ability of sound to create an immersive, emotional, and intricate portrait of story, subjective experience, and space. She works both with linear and interactive sound design, and her interactive work has primarily utilized FMOD for programming; she has also studied and experimented with spatialized sound and sound mixing. Rather than focusing purely on the visual experience, Laura's attention to the aural environment adds to her ability to think holistically and through an embodied lens about design and user experience. By understanding not only visual, temporal, and spatial elements, but also sonic environments, she is better equipped to follow mixed media productions through ideation to execution because of her understanding of the comprehensive elements.
These pieces represent a small collection of her sound design work:
"0557" (2009) Sound Designer, Director, Short Film
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12017-02-26T15:09:27-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2A Letter To You Documentation1This video presents documentation of my installation "A Letter to You," as well as the full footage of the installation - which is a loop. This is an autobiographical installation investigating my memory of my grandma before she died from cancer. It explores the intense pain and beauty of life and death, including the process of healing through immersive experience in water and sound. The piece was initially designed to fit the architecture of the original installation space, but as it is shown in other spaces, I am interested in seeing it develop in the context of other architectural elements. It can now create arches, opening doors of possibility, where there once stood walls.plain2017-02-26T15:09:27-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2
12017-02-26T15:02:09-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2They Had Horses3An animated documentary about the Iowa City flood of 2008.plain2017-02-27T01:30:42-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2
12017-02-27T01:37:05-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2They Moved Mountains1It took a massive construction project that reshaped the land into a modern baseball palace.plain2017-02-27T01:37:05-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2
12017-02-26T15:23:23-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2The Infinite1An enlightened journey encompassing the birth of the universe.plain2017-02-26T15:23:23-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2
12017-02-26T15:24:30-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2Dreaming Los Angeles - LA Animators1An exquisite corpse by LA animators led by Amy Lee Ketchum as part of her September 2014 Artist in Residence at the Echo Park Film Center. Artists include: Jeffrey Fletcher, Ryan Gillis, Javier Barboza, Laura Cechanowicz, Dana Wilson, Yang Liu, Louis Morton, Eric Pato, Brandon Lake, Jovanna Tosello, Miguel Jiron, and Joshua Ketchum with music by A Magic Whistle and sound design by Laura Cechanowicz.plain2017-02-26T15:24:30-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2
Animation made for the first USC Science film competition. Interpretation of the concept of fractality and self-similar systems in nature.
*Honorable Mention **Best Animation
Idea by: Kimberly Laux Science consultant: Scott McDonald Animation: Simon Wilches (Me) Music: Anna Drubich Sound: Laura Cechanowiczplain2017-02-26T15:22:37-08:00Laura Cechanowiczd3ad765e71e0e946eed450145482fb1a6196dad2
