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1. Audio
Felix Stanton

2. Research- If you are unable to find your own examples, you can use the ones
below.
• The Archers (audio drama)
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpgr/episodes/player
• Short Cuts (documentary/factual)
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mk3f8/episodes/player
• Lore (documentary/factual)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3RGz7Q_qlI
• Doctor Who (audio drama)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA50biqUB-8
• Soundscapes
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIUTO4gx5Eg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JVm2IZ3ChU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc5YHodcXpM
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3. Existing Products Research
– Doctor Who (audio drama)
The actors used in the audio drama have very
interesting different voices which work well with the
characters showing who is good/bad etc
Most of the audio used is non-diegetic
Most of the sound effects
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4. Existing Products Research
• Millenium Falcon [ASMR] Star Wars Ambience
⧱ Spaceship & Hyperspace SoundAnalysis
• No voice acting aside a robot featured in the
star wars films
• All sound is diagetic,
• Very ambient

5. Existing Products Research
• The Archers (audio drama)
• All diegetic
All of the sound effects are what the characters can
actually hear, e.g. door sounds
• Not many sound effects
Primary focus on the acting and emotion in characters
voices, less about ambience and surroundings
• Focus on acting
• All voice acting
• No narration
• Foley sound effects

6. Bibliography
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA50biqUB-8
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc5YHodcXpM
3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpgr/episodes/player

7. Ideas

8. Story
• “I was home alone for a weekend a few years ago while I was still in
high school. After school one day I was driving home, and when I
passed in front of my house I thought I saw some old lady in white
clothes in my sister’s room looking through the window. I thought it
was stupid, so I went in the room to check out what it actually was,
but I couldn’t find anything. I pretty much forgot about it until later
that night I got a call from a very panicked and scared neighbor
saying there was some old lady pacing back and forth in my sister’s
room. I still have no idea what it was, and I’ve never seen anything
like it since.” — TylerTimoj
The Black Lagoon
To celebrate their first year in university, six friends went camping in the wilderness.
After driving for several hours from the nearest town, they discovered a lagoon,
nestled beside a cliff ideal for diving. They set up camp in the woods nearby and
spent the evening swimming in the warm, clear water. As the sun sunk below the
trees, one of the friends went up to the highest point on the cliff and jumped off,
while the other 5 watched. Their laughter slowly subsided as they waited for him to
surface. It only took half a minute for them to dive in after their friend. Struggling
and sputtering among the reeds in the lagoon, they searched hopelessly for him.
Finally they disentangled themselves and came up, but they never saw their friend
again. Heartbroken they returned to the city and passed a strange and lonely year in
which their only solace was the knowledge that they would return to the lagoon to
honor the anniversary of their friend's death.
A year passed and they returned to the lagoon as a memorial, but as they
approached they saw their friend standing there, head bowed. Excitedly they called
to him and began running towards him, but he didn't turn. As they got closer they
called him more desperately, but still to no avail. With joy they ran towards him, but
stopped dead when they saw not one but five crosses on the waterside.

9. Idea Generation/Initial Reaction
Voice over
lots of diegetic and non diegetic
noises
Sound track
I will read the
story and be
the voice over
Ambience, lots
of water
noises/splashes
etc. cars,
walking etc.
Spooky music and eerie noises
I will make a song on
garage bad to play the
story in

10. Idea Generation/Initial Reaction
• Lyrics
• Ring-a-ring-a-rosies
• A pocket full of posies
• A tissue, a tissue
• We all fall down
• The king has sent his daughter
• To fetch a pail of water
• A tissue, a tissue
• We all fall down
• The robin on the steeple
• Is singing to the people
• A tissue, a tissue
• We all fall down
• The wedding bells are ringing
• The boys and girls are singing
• A tissue, a tissue
• We all fall down

11. Proposal
Working Title:
What is it called? Watery grave
Audience:
Who is your audience? my story is not very scary so the age I am aiming for is young teens as it
will be more spooky to them. The gender I will aim at is primarily male as horror fans are usually
male at that age. Social status doesn’t mean much when it is aimed at kids who don’t know much
about these things. The book is very short making it great for people with a short attention span ,
usually kids have a short attention which is another reason I am targeting them as my primary
consumer.
Project Concept (approx. 200 words)
I plan on making a short audio book on a horror story, the story I am using talks about a group of
people going too a lagoon, while there one of them ends up disappearing under the water and
they make a small cross for him after they realise he is dead, the following year they all go back
and find their friend stood there next to crosses.

12. Experiments

13. Foley
The Foley work I did consisted of making the
sound affects and putting them over a clip of
Shawn of the dead, the task was very
challenging as I had never used an audio
recorder and I had never made Foley audio
befre, overall it sounded good and my final
product was better than I expected.

14. Recording
• Write about your experiences of recording in different places.
Recording was easier than expected, we made short audio clips of us
reciting nursery rhymes, I recorded mine in a silent room so that there
was no background noise behind my voice. I recorded some foley
audio as well, al of this was recorded outside and added to make an
atmosphere
• What effect did it have? How will this influence your project?
Having my voice very isolated with no other audio was very useful as I
could add whatever atmosphere I wanted to. I added some old street
audio form the internet and then added my foley work to create a
nursery rhyme which sounds like it was being told at the time of the
plague

15. Garage Band
• Include your work with Garage Band, and some
writing about what went well, what could be
better and what you have learned.
As there was a problem with adobe I had to make
my final project on garage band, it was fairly easy to
use although I needed to use many layers to change
the audio volume on each, this made it very messy
and confusing to use but I got it done. Before this
the only experience I had on garage band was just
trying to make some form of music.

16. Planning

17. Script Draft
• The Black Lagoon
• To celebrate their first year in university, six friends went camping in the
wilderness. After driving for several hours from the nearest town, they discovered
a lagoon, nestled beside a cliff ideal for diving. They set up camp in the woods
nearby and spent the evening swimming in the warm, clear water. As the sun sunk
below the trees, one of the friends went up to the highest point on the cliff and
jumped off, while the other 5 watched. Their laughter slowly subsided as they
waited for him to surface. It only took half a minute for them to dive in after their
friend. Struggling and sputtering among the reeds in the lagoon, they searched
hopelessly for him. Finally they disentangled themselves and came up, but they
never saw their friend again. Heartbroken they returned to the city and passed a
strange and lonely year in which their only solace was the knowledge that they
would return to the lagoon to honor the anniversary of their friend's death.
• A year passed and they returned to the lagoon as a memorial, but as they
approached they saw their friend standing there, head bowed. Excitedly they
called to him and began running towards him, but he didn't turn. As they got
closer they called him more desperately, but still to no avail. With joy they ran
towards him, but stopped dead when they saw not one but five crosses on the
waterside.

18. Script FinalThe Black Lagoon
Narrated: To celebrate their first year in university, six friends went camping in the wilderness.
wilderness ambience comes in:
Narrated: After driving for several hours (car noises start) from the nearest town, they discovered a lagoon, nestled beside a cliff ideal for diving.
Female 1: “hey stop here!”
Male 1: (car stopping noises) “why what's up?”
Female 1: “There's a lagoon over there we should set up camp”
Male 2: “ this spot is banging innit”
(car doors opening and closing noises)
Narrator: They set up camp in the woods nearby and spent the evening (swimming noises start) swimming in the warm, clear water.
Narrator: As the sun sunk below the trees, one of the friends went up to the highest point on the cliff and jumped off, while the other 5 watched.
Male 2: “hey guys watch this”
Male 2: (screams as he falls towards water then a loud splash)
All: (cheering and laughing )
Narrator: However their laughter slowly subsided as they waited for him to surface only to realize that he wasn’t coming back up.
Male 1: “Wilson u good bro?”
Female 2: “he has’t come up yet”
Female 1: “Wilson Stop playing around”
Narrator: It only took half a minute for them to dive in (diving noises) after their friend.(struggling and sputtering sounds) Struggling and sputtering among the reeds in the
lagoon, they searched hopelessly for him. (louder splashing noises) Finally they disentangled themselves and came up, but they never saw their friend again.
Male 1: “I cant find him anywhere!”
Female 2: “h-he's just disappeared”
Narrator: Heartbroken they returned to the city and passed a strange and lonely year in which their only solace was the knowledge that they would return to the lagoon to honor
the anniversary of their friend's death.
Narrator: A long year passed and they returned to the lagoon as a memorial, but as they approached they saw their friend standing there, head bowed. Excitedly they called to
him
All : WILSONNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!
and began running towards him, but he didn't turn.
FEMALE 2: WILSONNNNNNN
MALE 1: TURN AROUND ITS US
Narrator: As they got closer they called him more desperately, but still to no avail. (background shouting) With joy they ran towards him, but stopped dead when they saw not
one but five crosses on the waterside.

19. Sound Effects
Sound Effect Needed How I Will Create the Sound
Wilderness noises Go deep into the wilderness for a few
days
Driving noises Drive a car around the recorder, also drive
with recorder in car
swimming I will probably get these noises of the
internet as it is hard to record swimming
Running Record someone running
Lagoon sounds May be got off the internet
Struggling and sputtering as someone
drowns
I will fill a bowl with water and get
someone to pull their head out of it
Calling out to friend (multiple people) I will record my friends calling out

20. Actors/Locations
Actor Role Location for recording
Felix Narrator, Foley audio A quiet room, various locations
Ben Character Quiet room
Rachel Character Quiet room
Harriett character Quiet room
Bailey character Quiet room

21. Music
Band Name Track Name Link
none none None

22. Resource List
Resource Owned/Cost What sound effect will it be
used for?
See weed Not sure how
much it costs
Lagoon noises
Audio recorder Borrow from
college
This will record everything
Car Owned Car sounds
water Owned Lagoon noises

23. Evaluation

24. Research
My research gave me some basic understanding of audio, going into this project I
had no knowledge on things like foley audio, or how audio is recorded. My
research gave me a better understanding on characters and how to make my
project more ambient. While doing research we looked at clips missing their foley
audio to see how different they where from the original, we then looked at ways
to make certain sounds. This was very useful and when making some foley sounds
for myself the knowledge I learned in the research really helped.
I wish I had done more research on things like garage band and the effect music
can have on a piece of audio, this was something I didn’t do in my final piece and I
think It would have made it a lot better, so this research may have convinced me
to put one in if I did it.
In our research we also made an audio clip of us reading out a nursery rhyme. This
was very useful as It made us see that with the right foley, speed, and tone you
could make a happy children's nursery rhyme a very dark sinister story, I ended up
trying to put the same voice on in my final project as I used for the nursery rhyme

25. Planning
The hardest part of my planning was finding a story I liked and making it
better. I found a very short and boring script online which had an okay story
but lacked a lot, I decided I could work on this and added characters with
voice lines, this was better than all of them having no personality and only
being known as things like the group.
Once my script was complete and I was happy with it I gathered some people
to voice the different characters, I assigned people to the role that they fit
into best. Later on after recording some of my script I realised I needed more,
to strengthen the story and make it longer, so I added a few more lines.
My other planning was easy but less useful, I planned on making my own
foley noises with a list of different items, it all seemed like it would work until
the items I picked didn’t make a sound remotely close to what I needed.
However I did make a list of all the sounds I was going to produce which was
still very useful I just had to get most of the sounds online rather than making
them myself as it was too hard.

26. Time Management
My time management was good, I completed my planning, recording and
editing all on time with no issues.
I did need to add more to it after I finished and I never prepared extra time
for this possibility, luckily I had more than enough time to create some more
lines, record, edit and then add sound affects behind them.
If I had more time to produce my work I would have put a lot more effort into
the foley, since I didn’t book out an audio recorder as I didn’t have free time
at home to record, getting foley noises was very hard at college, if I had extra
time I would have booked a recorder out and spent a good few days going to
different places to get the sounds I needed.

27. Technical Qualities
My work was good in my opinion, It was my first proper audio piece and I used a
wide range of skills. I think my work was to a good standard because had a variety
of characters as well as a narrator, a large amount of audio effects and ambient
sounds in the background to set the scene. One of the things I was most proud of
was later into the story there is some dialogue between two characters, this is the
only part of my story not set at the lagoon, to show this I found some audio
recorded in a bar and added it quietly behind the two of them talking, this made it
very clear they where in a different place and made the story feel like it was more
than just all at the lagoon. The use of all the background audio makes mine similar
to most recorded short stories, as well as the characters and having a narrator
who Is not a character. I think mine is quite similar to most existing products as I
was basing it off a lot of the videos I watched in my research and did not have the
creativity to make it very different as it was my first try at an audio project. I think
my work was complicated enough but I could have added a lot more affects if I
was able to do it on something other than garage band, it really limited my ability
to edit each clip.

28. Aural Qualities
I think my work sounds okay, I had to be the narrator as I didn’t have anyone else
who wanted to do it, and I personally don’t think I had the right voice for the job, as
well as this we had some difficulties with the audio recorders and my first 5
recording where I put the most effort and really tried to put on a voice all never
saved ad the memory was full. This was an issue as I then had to record again but
this time on my phone, and I didn’t put the same effort into my reading making it
just not sound as good.
Other than this id say my actors all did very well and it sounded good overall.

29. Audience Appeal
My target audience was (Who is your audience? my story is not very scary so the
age I am aiming for is young teens as it will be more spooky to them. The gender I
will aim at is primarily male as horror fans are usually male at that age. Social
status doesn’t mean much when it is aimed at kids who don’t know much about
these things. The book is very short making it great for people with a short
attention span , usually kids have a short attention which is another reason I am
targeting them as my primary consumer.) and I would say it is still wuite appealing
to my target audience, I think I could have put on a weird voice as the narrator I
would have made it a lot better for the audience I have chosen but it should still
be okay. I think the sound affects, character voice acting and twist at the end make
it appealing to my target audience but there are definitely some parts I would
need to change.