audio file-https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7CW7eL-J7bU
In this project we were asked to create a story only using sounds. The goal was to be able to guess what was going on even though there was no visual elements, only audio. Me, Maliha, Charleey and Isaac decided we wanted to record a scene about bullying. The scene starts off with someone walking to their locker opening it, and then a bully yelling at them. They run away and are chased before finally being caught and beat up.
By creating a storyline only using sounds, the audience is really forced to pay attention to what's going on and they are also given more creative freedom of their own as they are allowed to create images in their find of the plot, characters and other events going on. An only sound based film has the similar effect too if someone was to read a book as it allows the audience member to know what's going on but create their own version of the story visually.
For a majority of the sounds used in our film, we were able to use the actual objects themselves to make the sound we wanted. For example for our character opening and shutting the locker door, we were just able to use a real locker door and use the audio from that. We had a lot of running and walking noises in our film also which were super easy to make as all we needed to do was hold the microphone to one of us actually running or walking.
One sound element we didn't create ourselves though was the bell ringing indicating the changing of classes. However we were allowed to use automated sounds, we just had to minimize them. We did a good job of creating most of our own sounds though because the bell was the only sound we didn't make ourselves.
The hardest sound that we struggled to make was the punching noise. We obviously didn't want to really beat someone up, so we had to come up with a creative and safe way to make a realistic punching sound. We found a couch and decided to hit it and test to see if the sound was realistic. It was very similar but not quite exactly what we were looking for, however we realized that during the editing process we could layer the sound repeatedly to make it a string of punches which matched the sound the couch made better.
