I was absent to class when we started working on the project and brainstorming, so I started working at home and coming up with ideas and real life scenarios that would be the best to tell the story through just sound. Out of the three ideas that I had considered , I chose to do my project about a girl that makes a quick stop at a grocery store.
After I had my story, I did my soundscape outline, in chronological order, to know specifically what sounds I was going to be using. I thought about all the sounds I hear when I go to the grocery store and broke my story in five scenes:
1. Entering the grocery store: Door opening and closing, ambience sound of the grocery store, people talking, register beeping, shopping carts, slight music on the background.
2.Grabbing the snacks: Footsteps, grabbing a bag of chips, "oh celsius" (used as a reminder to buy the energy drink), open and close fridge. (including the past sounds slightly in the background, to keep the ambience sounds of the setting)
3. Making the line in the register: Footsteps, beeping increasing (showing approach to register), "hello" and "good evening" (cashier and girl), putting snacks on the register counter, two beeps (chips and celcius), opening and closing zipper (to take out card to pay), enters the pin, receipt prints, plastic bag sound, "thank you" (from the girl).
4. Leaving the store: Footsteps, open and close door, cricket sound (to show it's night), more footsteps, plastic bag sound, car keys sound, parking lot ambience, cars passing by, car unlocking.
5. Getting in the car: Open car door and close, bag sound, turning car on, engine sound, can of Celcius open, sips, put can away, sound of nails in touchscreen of car, music, drive away.
In the soundscape outline made, I had put kids running and a sigh from the girl, to add something else. I was going to add it but I decided not to because I figured it was irrelevant in the story. I also had put that when the girl gets in the car, she opens the window and did not add it either because of the same reason. Those were the only changes I made from the outline, I also had to have in mind that I could not exceed the 2 minute timeline.
But with the breakdown previously showed, all the sounds I used to tell this story are there, to tell the story the best way possible. When choosing the sounds, I searched them on sound effect data bases and also made several foley sounds: Footsteps (with my sandals), grabbing bag of chips (with some labels and scrunching them), fridge opening and closing (using my fridge), car key sounds (with normal keys), put can away (putting my water cup into the table) and lastly the sound of nails of touchscreen (with my nails touching my computer). The video of my foley sound making: https://youtu.be/hRfw4cVKwnM
After I had my sounds, I arranged them together and started editing. I wanted it to sound the smoothest way possible. I watching tutorials on youtube, since I had never done something like this. I struggled in some parts of the sound effects, but I managed to improve it by fading the sound effects and decreasing and increasing the intensity of each sound when I thought it was more convenient. Overall, I think I did a good job in this project and I enjoyed making it as well, it was a very fun thing to do.
The link to my project: https://youtu.be/UD2MOJeF8us
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