In order to help us learn more about sound, and the importance it holds in media pieces, our teacher had us create a project using only elements of sound in order to convey a story to our listeners. Prior to starting this project, my teacher gave us a lesson on the elements of sound and what they can be used to create. For example, we learned about diegetic, and non- diegetic sound, and voiceovers, and sound perspective, and how all of these "ingredients" come together to make a well rounded "cake".
As per the instructions, we were told to create a 1-2 minute soundscape, using all of the elements of sound that we learned to aid us, and using both sounds that can be found online, as well as a required 4 sounds that had to be made by us, using a foley stage. But, before we could begin this project, we had to plan what we were going to do, in which we came up with the idea to do a boat tour gone wrong. After creating an outline, we began to research different ways in which we could create our required foley sounds.
In getting creative, we found that the best ways to make a sound such as water when a boat is treading on it, is by using a cup and moving it through water, and we found that the best way to imitate the strong winds that are felt when on a boat, is by blowing directly into our microphones, and so our process began...
We found that the editing platform Adobe Premier Pro worked best for us, and we began to combine all of our sounds. See below for what our screens began to look like
As we began to layer on all of the sounds we made, as well as the base sounds, our screen began to look more like this:
The final product was about 1 minute, and 11 seconds long, and included all of the elements we had originally wished to incorporate, as well as the foley sound we created.
In hindsight, I believe there were better ways to go about making the wind noises, as I felt they were a bit aggressive, but overall I am content with the outcome of my project, and I feel that I used a combination of all of my given knowledge in order to successfully create a soundscape that brought across the intended story, and I hope to continue with fun projects like this in the future.
If you wish to hear my project, here is the link for it:
https://1drv.ms/v/c/a29c8b6e88d55990/EY3fAPfCQ85GtEW78Rq6xh4BH1OZju_LmidcX_E7w2GA5w?e=xilRY9
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