Sound Project Reflection

     After making 2 sound projects, I learned a lot about the aspect of incorporating sound to develop a story. I learned how to fit specific sounds into scenes, and how to develop a story with only sound. I learned all the different sound techniques and how to apply them. Another crucial thing I also learned is how to make foley sounds. I had to make many foley sounds for both projects and fit them perfectly into their corresponding scene. 

    For the first sound project, I had to make a story that lasts around 60-90 seconds using only sound. The only thing shown had to be a black screen and the sounds had to make the whole story. There was a limit of 7 words that could be used and a minimum of 4 foley sounds. 

    For the second sound project, I had to add sound to the one word film which I had made before. This film was a 60-90 second story about a singular word that was given by the teacher, (pessimistic), but no sound was allowed. So to add sound to it, we had to do many foley sounds and replicate the exact rythmn of the film.

    For sound project 1, I had to brainstorm fun and interesting ideas as this is a unique topic. Me and my partner decided to make a story of an alien invasion in a city. We had to gather many sounds to replicate a city atmosphere and it was hard to find good sounds to replicate an alien ship. 

    While brainstorming, we made an outline that helped us keep track of our ideas. We would write thing about the story and what sounds we thought would be needed. We also included which audios we would do foley on. 

    The outline helped a lot because it helped us keep track of every sound that we needed and make sure we didn't forget anything.

    We used clipchamp

    I think that we did good overall, but there are some things that we could improve. I think the transition and smoothness between sounds could be improved, and volume levels could be adjusted to make it more smooth.

    This is my sound project number 1:


    For sound project #2, I approached it by thinking of pessimism. The first thing that came to mind was a student taking a test and thinking he was going to fail. I didn't know if this was a good idea but I ran it through my partner and he liked it. After we made it, we had to add sounds which was hard because we had to match everything perfectly as seen in the video.

    During brainstorming, we made an outline that covered all the sounds we wwere planning to use for the project and how we were planning on making them.

    The outline helped a lot because it made it easier to remember how to make each sound and make sure we didn't forget any.

    We used clipchamp.

    I think that we did a good job on making and picking the right sounds, but there are some things to improve. Firstly, our editing was not so good, so some of the sounds were not timed correctly or just sounded unnatural. Also, my time management was not good, and I ended up rushing it at the end.

    This is my sound project #2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JkInJpc9l6_6zscFO_A6L-bPTP0ts7Mw/view?usp=sharing