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Tags: This was the most fun I’ve had doing something in this class so far and I have no idea why. Here’s the assignment.
The explosions need a little work.
After some comments, I went back in to make another story. I liked the old one, but it was clear to me that my message was not coming across clearly.
Having said that, I took in the advice and created a new story. Here it is:
I started off with the background–just some wind blowing through trees. Then I added a baby laughing, baby saying dada, a fart, sniffing, a moan, a choking sound, followed up with the sound of a drop; all courtesy of Sound Dogs. Did all the work in Audacity, just layered things all up with some cutting and pasting.
It is good, but if I were you, I would have overlapped the sound, that is, not started one sound after the last one finished, it would make it more cohesive.
Do you need to know why something is fun? I’m glad to hear we got to this level.
Nancy has a good point and its one not realized when you start this. If you are using a tool like Audacity, you can create sounds that overlap. One way is to put a faint music or something like wind blowing (ambient) sounds in the background. I have a tutorial for sound layering:
http://ds106.us/handbook/tools/layering-sounds-in-audacity/
The other thing on doing assignments is I want you to give credit to where the sounds came from; this might allow someone else to use the same sounds in a different way. And tell me more about the idea here. Why road runner? What is the thought behind the story?
Last, when you write up something in response to something in the ds106 assignment bank, you should link and reference it in your post
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/
as well as include the two tags that are listed on that page–
AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments70
this allows your example to get connected to the assignment itself
I included the tags on the post in SoundCloud. Does it need to go into the post as well?
I did use overlapping on the explosion sounds but I’ll experiment with it some more. I think the wind is a good idea to connect everything, I’m probably going to make another one anyway.
I love the Gas Mask story!
And you’re right
I didn’t understand the Road Runner story.
Were you able to overlap the sounds more in the second one? From the SoundCloud it looks like it, but I was just curious since they still seem distinct sounds.
Didn’t really overlap them but I put a wind noise in the background through the whole thing. Aside from that, I probably overlapped just as much in the first one.