Sound Story

 

 ⋆˙⟡ My Sound Story ✶⋆.˚

                    

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    We are back again with another blog from yours truly! 

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Today, I will be sharing my sound story project with everyone: 

Script

Scene: Match point for a volleyball game

1. Timeout before the rally for the last point

1) Crack knuckles/stretches

2) Nervous breathing

3) Pick up the water bottle

4) “And it’s now match point f-”

5) Chugs water

6) Crumbles water bottle

7) Walking onto court

8) Crowd murmuring

2. Getting ready to set the ball

1) Nervous breathing

2) Referee whistle

3) Rapid Heartbeat

4) Running to serve

5) Sneaker sounds

6) Jump

7) Serve ball hit sound

8) Lands on ground

3. Rally back and forth until the opponent loses

1) The other team picks up the ball

2) Intense battle to keep the ball on the opposing team’s side

3) The ball falls on the other side dramatically (bounces several times)

4) Referee whistle

5) Crowd goes wild

6) Hug from teammates (very sudden)

7) Teammates giving each other high fives

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Sound Story Video

    Description: My sound story is from the perspective of a volleyball player in the position of setter, with their team only ONE point away from victory. The story starts during their timeout before resuming the game for the very last rally of the game. To make the story, I started with planning and writing out my script first. Then I cataloged a list of sounds I needed to create/use in order to orchestrate the events listed in my script. Next, I recorded all my homemade sounds at my discount "foley stage" and downloaded pre-made sounds for the ones I did not make. Lastly, I edited ALL the sounds together to create the video you hear above! Once again, I made this video on Capcut on my phone. I have quite a decent amount of prior editing experience as this is not the first media class I have taken, but I never really used Capcut for them. I also used to edit for fun so that contributed to my experience. To be honest, the hardest part of editing was editing on such a TINY screen as the files are a pain to make minor adjustments on when they are extremely minute. I spent the majority of my time just tweaking small details and hoping I did not mess anything else up when I changed something. My takeaway from this project was that I should probably use the desktop version of Capcut next time and organize my editing timeline better as it was an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE arranging/fixing everything at the end to ensure my project was perfect. Overall, this was a pretty easy project to do, and my FIRST foray into sound design and making!

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Foley Video

    Description: For the sound effects, I made over half of them by myself (with only just SOME of them being featured in the video above) using an at-home "foley stage." The ones I did not create myself were downloaded from YouTube through the use of a YouTube to MP3 converter. In all, I used around EIGHT pre-made sound effects in my story that I used to enhance my own sounds through layering or was incapable of creating myself (due to my lack of opportunity/not having the means). For example, ALL the crowd sounds were just simply impossible for me to recreate on my OWN, so I just conceded and downloaded it from YouTube. This was a pretty NOVEL experience for me as I never tried making my own sound effects before (in contrast to my own tenured experience with editing in general). As a result, this led to some of the sound creation being slightly challenging for me. An instance of this would be me doing various trials to figure out WHAT would make the best heartbeat sound, and then actually obtaining the perfect take (another journey of trial and error) of the sound. In the end, I figured it out and overcame my struggles to present this project to you ALL!

    Thank YOU guys for listening, and I hope you enjoyed my project just as much as I enjoyed making it! See you in my next blog <3