Sonic Design - Project 3

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Sonic Design
22.4.2023 - 10.5.2023
Johnny Lam Wee Zhe (0363436)
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
 

 INSTRUCTIONS

 
 

PROJECT 3 - AUDIO STORYTELLING

For this project, we are being tasked with creating an audio book of a popular fairy tale of any choice a provide narration, voice acting and background sounds and music. It is recommended that the source of the fairy tale should also have visuals that can be compiled into a video form.
 
After several searches, I found a website that tells children's fairy tale and some of the fairy tale provides multiple illustration of what's going on in the story. For this project, I decide to choose this older version of Cinderella.

Fig 1. Story Berries Website

As the dialogues are spoken by women (which I am not), I decide to have a voice actress to help pull off the dialogue portion of the story while I myself will be narrating the story. I will be recording parts of the story from the beginning until the part where Cinderella runs away from the ball.

Originally I have planned on this with the version of Cinderella that I have in mind but while recording, I realize I have skim passed a few section of the story, especially when Cinderella not only returns home in time without event but she returns for another ball which is when she failed to leave in time. So I shortened it to reduce the length of the video.

In order to ensure a higher quality recording, I used a thick blanket to absorb the surrounding sounds and prevent the voice from bouncing off the walls of the room. For the dialogue part of the story, I have the help of my sister since the dialogue is all spoken by women.

After that, I plan out the additional sound needed for the video. Here is the spread sheet:
 
 

I download the each of the sounds needed from different copyright free sources. For the typical sounds, I got it from this website just like my other work:

For other sources of sound that I'm unable to find in the previous website, I use this website. I also download copyright free music from here:

In the end, here is all the raw audio and recording I've downloaded from the website:

I have clean out the recording with the denoise effect. From there, I combine all the audios together, starting with the recording and then, the other sound effects.

Fig 2.1 Screenshot of Audio Mix

Once I'm done with the compilation, I check the amplitude of the audio to ensure that the sound combination does extent too much using the mixer.

Fig 2.2 Screenshot of the Mixer

After several adjustments made from the audio, I then proceed to compile all the graphic available from the website and an extra image I gathered all of them into one video. Here is the website that I have gathered the graphics from as well as the the very site where this story is told:

Final Result

Fig 3. Final Result
 

REFLECTION

My initial plan for this project is to voice everyone in the story as well as read the narratives. However, I decide to ask the help from my sister as part of my project and she did a pretty decent job at it. Just as I suspected, it takes multiple takes to do the voice. This had only made worse by my sleep deprivation induced by something outside of my control. Nonetheless, this project has help me in a few ways such as narration and asking for assistance. It also helps me to think outside of the box and not just insert sound that is shown in the picture.

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