Sound of the Environment- Ch. 8

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Gerry Mendito is the manager at the Coney Island’s Cylclone roller coaster that has just turned 80 years old. The video starts off with Mendito talking about how every morning two people check the track of the roller coaster to make sure everything is correct. Then they have a mechanic to check the seating. Mendito has never ridden the Cyclone and only knows how it feels to be on the roller coaster from other people. The video also shows a point of view of someone riding the roller coaster and you can see how much the camera shakes when riding the coaster.

                  

 The sound in the video is of great quality. They used the sound of the roller coaster going up and down the track as well as people screaming while riding the roller coaster. It seems like they used a mic to capture the sound of the roller coaster and the noise it makes while going up and down the track. You can also hear the wind and sometimes when it was cutting to the next video segment, it was hard to understand what people were saying for a split second or two. When Mendito was talking there was sometimes distracting sound from people working around him, which takes away from what he is saying in the video.