Blog 6: Sound Story

Welcome back my girl! Today's blog is a little different. Let's close your eyes and walk through my Sound Story. This project capture the familiar routines that have become second nature but soon will be part of my cherished memories. 

Sound Story

Foley Video 

Script

Time period: 0:00 - 0:39

Setting: Classroom (last period)  

- Soft chatter of students

- Clock ticking

- Pages flipping

- Books being closed

- Zipper of a backpack

- Sound of books being stuffed in backpack

- Chairs scraping as student stand

- Clock ticking fastens à bell rings

 

Time period: 0:40-0:58

Setting: School hallway à Student parking lot

- Footsteps

- Students chatting

- Door creaking open

- Wind rushes past

- Bird chirping

- Humming

- Car unlock sound

- Dialogue “Bye, see you”

- Car door open

- Car door close

- Car engine starts

 

 

Time period: 0:59-1:53

Setting: On the road driving home

  

- Button sound (to turn on music)

- Background music

- Car seat belt warning

- Putting seat belt on (warning stop)

- Car driving sound

- Traffic

- Turing signal sound (blinker ticking)

- Car’s slowing down sound à come to complete stop

- Grab key as key jingling

- Car door close

- Car lock sound

- Foot step sound (walking toward the house)

- House door open

- House door close

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    For our project, we chose to create a sound story based on our daily activities as seniors. Our goal was to capture the essence of our high school journey as a reflection of theses memorable times. My blogs revolve on things that deeply longing to me and play a significant role in my life. The familiar sound of the bell ringing at 2:40pm signals the end of the day, followed by packing up, heading to the car and driving home. Just like that, an everyday cycle that only found once in our student's lifetime. 

    Initially, we explored apps like iMovie and WeVideo but ultimately decided too stick with CapCut. We chose this software because of our previous experience with it and its user-friendly interface. CapCut is accessible and easy to use. Most of our sound effects were sourced from Youtube since they offered a wide variety of options. While the process of gathering and using these sounds was somewhat challenging, we managed to work through it effectively. We would first screen-recorded the specific sounds we needed, then extracted and layered them carefully to ensure a smooth and natural blend between scenes. 

    Thanks to my prior editing experience, I was able to complete this project without any major difficulties. This made the process much smoother and more enjoyable.