Blog : Sound Story

 Blog : Sound Story

Script:

Scene : Kidnapping

ominous music throughout

1. Walking into a woman's house

    1. Footsteps

    2. Knocking/Banging on the door

    3. Rattling of doorknob

    4. Opening oof the door aggressively

    5. Man slowly walking in 

    6. Knife scraping

    7. Woman breathing heavily inside a closet.

    8. Heartbeat

    9. Closet opening

    10. Woman screams

    11. Zipping and taping her up

2. Getting away in a car

    1. Footsteps

    2. Pushing a door to create a slight squeak

    3. Opening the truck & thud

    4. Throwing her in

    5. Closing the trunk

    6. Footstep

    7. Opening the car door

    8. Turning on the car

    9. Driving off

Sound Story:

Foley Video:

I completed this Sound Story project with my classmate Christy. Our sound story is comprised of two main scenes; a man breaking in to search for a woman, and the man taping her up and driving away. Throughout almost the entire audio there is an eerie background sound effect, that I turned up or down depending on the part in the story and level of suspense I wanted to add. The sound story begins with footsteps (of the man walking up to the door of the woman's house), and is followed with intense sounds of knocking and  aggressively opening the locked door. The door is then finally opened and accompanied with an eerie door creek, and the sound of the man walking in slowly. These two main sounds (along with the constant background music) is layered with a knife scraping sound, heartbeat, and heavy breathing sound (from the hiding girl). Then the music hits a peak, the man finds her, and opens the closet in where she is hiding. She screams and all sound is silenced. Then taping, cutting, and rustling sounds are played to express that she is being kidnapped. He walks out and throws her into a car before driving away into the distance.

To create this sound story I started by creating a rough script. Then I went on Youtube and searched through sound effects until found the ones that I liked. My partner and I also created the foley sounds. Then I uploaded them all into the CapCut software where I layered and played with the sounds until I was satisfied with how it sounded.

Through making this sound story I learned just how much sound has an impact on a story. I never realized how much can be conveyed without any pictures or visual components. As I was layering the sounds I also realized how important the eerie background music really was. Without the background music it felt more bland, and did not strikingly impact the emotions of the listener. The heightening and lowering of the volume also added suspense when the story called for it. Sound truly makes a big difference in not only how the story is conveyed, but how the listener feels. 

Although I do not edit often, I am taking a videography class where we use online software to layer and add sound to videos. For me, I felt that this sound project was more time consuming than difficult and I had to play with this particular software.