Sound Project

For my third project of the semester, we learned not only how to work with shots and camera angles and how they can convey a meaning in a story, but we also learned the most important part when it comes to creating a film. We learned how to work with sound, we learned how foley's are made and how we can even create our own. This taught us how to really put our creative skills to the test, so now I will present what was created. Our objective was for us to learn how to tell a story using only sound effects and other auditory techniques, we brainstormed ideas and put them down in an outline. As we went through with our ideas, in order to organize them and merge them into a successful piece of work, we were asked to create a 1-2 minute sound sample that tells a story, with the option of having seven words included in the audio. We needed to create an audio recording of a scene using sound effects from online databases and everyday objects, with no video allowed just a black screen or still shot. At least four of the sound effects must be created using random objects on a "foley stage," and we should video the process of making these sounds. We needed to submit three files: a fully edited sound file of our scene labeled with the group members' last names and period, a video file of the four foley stage sounds edited together and similarly labeled, and 1-3 images of the editing timeline showing all audio layers. During our brainstorming we listed audios that you would hear in a restaurant and in a home. The story line demonstrated two friends who were on the way to a restaurant to have dinner; shorlty afterward as they headed back home for a sleepover, they unpacked their bags and ended off their night with a movie. We incorporated these sounds in the appropriate matter in order to create a satisfactory project. The outline helped us organize our story line and allowed us to figure out the order in which we would be producing these sounds as well. The outlines are a great source for students to organize their ideas in a efficient matter. When we began to create our sound project, we made sure to incorporate editing techniques, and we used the adobe editing tool. Improvement that could've been added to my project would've been if we were able to produce a sample that allowed us more time in order to include the remaining piece of the story that we initially wrote down in our outline, but since we ran out of time, we were only able to include the first half of what was planned. In other aspects, I think we did a pretty good job. The final product will now be listed here: Sound sample: https://youtu.be/N0mz46UTyY0 Foley stage: https://youtu.be/24NR0LuDfV8