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
DELETE THIS SLIDE WHEN DONE
3. Existing Products Research
• Haunted House soundscape
It feels like a haunted house, I hear creaking and other classic
tropes of a haunted house. There is some really fitting ambient
music to send shivers up your spine and set tone. Having the odd
whisper involved as well creates an eerie and chilling
environment that builds the setting of this house for the listener
the reminder that there is something, unknown of what it is, is
lurking out in the grand unknown is crucial in order to stay in the
anxious head of the resident, reminding them that they are not
alone.
4. Existing Products Research
– Price Of Fear - Lot 132
– It was extremely boring and the acting was poor, the
addition's of the door sounds was a nice touch of
emersion. The story was hard to follow along and due to
the time it was produced the quality was rubbish.
5. Existing Products Research
• Price Of Fear - Fish
There is a soft ambiance of foot steps that are both
frantic and calming at the same time, the smaller
natural noises make the scenes feel much more
alive, the reeling of the fishing rod part was far too
loud and mixed poorly. The water sounds were
really good and immersive, it sounded like you were
on a boat at sea.
12. Foley
• Include your work on foley and some writing
about what went well, what could be better
and what you have learned.
• You should include a link and a screen shot.
Don’t embed your work, it won’t work.
13. • What went well: we got everything done in the
given day, and we manged to get some sounds
perfectly synced up. We had some really authentic
sounds that went with the onscreen effects really
well. We did multiple takes of things and recorded a
surplus of alternative sounds.
• We had a few issues with background noise and
sounds not being what we thought they would be.
A couple issues with laughing or talking over
recording although they were edited out easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydFLXbcmqvo
14.
15. Recording
• Write about your experiences of recording in
different places.
• What effect did it have? How will this
influence your project?
Recording in certain areas provided more
background noise and reverb than others, more
enclosed spaces offered the above effect.
16. Garage Band
• Include your work with Garage Band, and
some writing about what went well, what
could be better and what you have learned.
• You should include a link and a screen shot.
Don’t embed your work, it won’t work.
17. Sound Trap
• I made music on soundtrap. I used the loops
and midi features to draw in notes for
melodies, and I made a simple loop that
consisted of a crescendo and an eerie piano
counter melody. The simplicity went well and
the actual sound was fitting of the brief. I
could of improved on the mixing and
mastering side of the song.
18. Proposal
Working Title:
What is it called? This can change if you think of something better later
Audience:
Who is your audience? Be very detailed; age, gender, social status, psychographic etc. Use the
Audience Classifications PowerPoint on Blackboard to help you develop this section.
Why would your project appeal to this person? Discuss each audience element in relation to
content (why would your product appeal to the age group? Why would your product appeal to
the gender? Etc.)
Project Concept (approx. 200 words)
What is the concept for your project and what are you going to make?
What did you learning during research that will help you?
20. Story
• It’s the 1st night in a supposedly haunted house in
York. The ghosts aren’t the scariest thing inside the
house though, that prize is won by the isolation that
you face. A slow crawl into madness, the decent
into an insane mind, grasping at reality, clawing at
fiction. The greatest of fear is that forged by the
manacles of your own mind a prison of unknown. In
ignorance there is bliss but you have flown too close
to the sun and this is your eulogy. Might you die by
your own corrupt fractured mind, the nightmares
are here to stay, you will yearn for there disturbed
comfort.
21. Script Draft
• A simple tone setting piano will play a short just so unfinished melody.
• The door is closes as a storm is blowing outside, the light is turned off and footsteps leading
to the bed are heard. The shuffling of the covers are the only noise to populate the room.
• 15 seconds of pure deafening silence follow
• the hallucinations and taunting start afterwards. A scratching, a shuffle, a creek, rustling and
tapping all faint and nearly unheard, but noticeable.
• another brief interlude of nothing, a solid 10 seconds of nothing.
• Here the madness picks up with more vivid sounds and a knocking at the door to brake the
melody of scratching and scraping
• The sounds all come together and create a complex mess of static and noise in the head
• The wake up. Heavy breathing, startled, it was just a nightmare.
• Loud breathing out of sync is heard from the left, a rustle to indicate looking that way is
played, it is then heard from the right and a rustle follows.
• Music picks up and the audio of everything becomes distorted and corrupt.
• The end of the opening melody is played in a heavily distorted piano
Diegetic – They can hear it
Non-Diegetic – They can’t
22. • Script draft pt2
• to open there will be a piano playing a short melody that will go
unfinished.
• Audio from a storm is played throughout the rest of the video.
• A firm heavy door closes.
• Light/soft foot steps are heard from the neutral front
• The clicking of a light switch is heard from the right
• Foot steps continue going into a loud creak of the floor from the left
23. Draft pt3
• I had just returned home after a long day, fleeing from the crescendo
of a dwelling storm. I hastily rattled my door closed seeking the
warmth of my small home. I sauntered over to my light switch and
shrouded my room in darkness with the swift flick of solum all fixture.
• I nested myself into the warm embrace of my bed drowning out all
the sounds of the raging weather, and here I decided to submit
myself to sleep.
• I had been asleep long enough to enter the dream world as to start to
experience the misfortune of a nightmare, a mental terror that
accompanied my shattered health.
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24. Script Final
• Melody plays
• Door opens
• Rain is in the background
• Ruffling sound is played.
• Scratching sounds play
• Tapping plays.
• Gasp plays.
25. Sound Effects
Sound Effect Needed How I Will Create the Sound
Scraping I will scrape the walls with a blade
Footsteps I will record myself waling on the floor
Light switch I will record myself turning off the lights
Storm I will pray to the rain gods or use a
YouTube video of rain
Creaking I will record my creaky floor
Rustling I will rustle a bag or something similar
Scratching I will scratch something near the mic
Inaudible gibberish whispering There is plenty of sound clips of this
online
Tapping I will be tapping on a bunch of items
Knocking on a door There's a sound clip in a Josh A song
that sounds really good I might use, or I
can record one myself
Breathing There is a few sound clips from “always
28. Resource List
Resource Owned/Cost What sound effect will it be
used for?
Knife/fork Owned scratching
A bag or something that will
provide a nice rustle noise
30. Daily Reflection Day 1
• A start was made. With the opening done and 2 of
the most tedious and annoying parts of audio
already imported and ready to be mixed
35. Research
• I looked at 2 soundscapes. the haunted house and the star wars sound
scape. These 2 were enough for me to form an idea of what direction I
wanted to go. I also listened to a song/tone setter by radiarc called
"always there" I hoped to sample part of it as it was perfect for the
isolation feel I was going for.
36. Planning
• Planning went awfully. I struggled for ages to get the scripts done and in
the end I did not follow the script further than the very basic concepts. I'm
still unable to make plans or stick to them. Nothing really went well during
this stage.
37. Time Management
• I manged time poorly. I got the actual raw audio done in time but editing
took most my time of actual production. I spent far too long on writing up
scripts and deleting things I didn’t like. If I would of spent half the time I
spent worrying about the project on actually doing it I would have had the
whole thing done weeks earlier.
38. Technical Qualities
The tech on the project was fairly good, I used soundtrap to edit and
sequence the audio, this made the whole time 100x easier. The mix
was alright in places and the room added to certain vanilla sounds
made them feel heavier and more realistic somehow, the addition of
pan made things sound more 3D, the eq changes on the scratches got
rid of the cringeworthy metal scraping sound, akin to nails on a
chalkboard. The volume readjustment let me change the noise let out
at points in the audio. The call to get rid of the gasp due to the scene
brake was disappointing but the mix between the sample and my song
wouldn't permit a smooth transition without feeling unnatural, I tried
playing with Eq adding reverb to fully damage immersion and make it
seem unearthly but it still didn’t sound good.
Go over as many slides as necessary. Research at least 3 products.
Discuss the use of sound effects, music and performance. How have the producers suggested a location/time period and created a tone/feel
Try to break down what you can hear. How do the different sound elements work together? How do sound effects add to the drama? What part does music play in the work?
Try to listen to a variety of different types of radio programme. If you listen to drama and documentary, you will give yourself a better understanding of what exists and what is possible. It will also help guide your project.
Go over as many slides as necessary. Research at least 3 products.
Discuss the use of sound effects, music and performance. How have the producers suggested a location/time period and created a tone/feel
Try to break down what you can hear. How do the different sound elements work together? How do sound effects add to the drama? What part does music play in the work?
Try to listen to a variety of different types of radio programme. If you listen to drama and documentary, you will give yourself a better understanding of what exists and what is possible. It will also help guide your project.
Go over as many slides as necessary. Research at least 3 products.
Discuss the use of sound effects, music and performance. How have the producers suggested a location/time period and created a tone/feel
Try to break down what you can hear. How do the different sound elements work together? How do sound effects add to the drama? What part does music play in the work?
Try to listen to a variety of different types of radio programme. If you listen to drama and documentary, you will give yourself a better understanding of what exists and what is possible. It will also help guide your project.
Go over as many slides as necessary. Research at least 3 products.
Discuss the use of sound effects, music and performance. How have the producers suggested a location/time period and created a tone/feel
Try to break down what you can hear. How do the different sound elements work together? How do sound effects add to the drama? What part does music play in the work?
Try to listen to a variety of different types of radio programme. If you listen to drama and documentary, you will give yourself a better understanding of what exists and what is possible. It will also help guide your project.
Using Neil’s Toolbox, log all the resources you have used
Log your initial thoughts regarding the set brief- What stories could you use? How do you feel about the different potential formats? What are the positives about this project? What could be some difficult aspects?
Create a mind map of all the things you need to think about for your project.
Log your initial thoughts regarding the set brief- What stories could you use? How do you feel about the different potential formats? What are the positives about this project? What could be some difficult aspects?
Create a mind map of all the things you need to think about for your project.
Provide a brief summary of the story/stories you have chosen
Initial draft of your script. This should then be refined.
Final version of your script, ready to be used in production.
What music could you use? This should be copyright free. Explore options online for copyright free/public domain music or make your own on Garage Band
Log your thoughts and feeling related to what you have produced. Discuss methods and tools you have used. Reference everything you have done today. Use screenshots
Log your thoughts and feeling related to what you have produced. Discuss methods and tools you have used. Reference everything you have done today. Use screenshots
Log your thoughts and feeling related to what you have produced. Discuss methods and tools you have used. Reference everything you have done today. Use screenshots
Log your thoughts and feeling related to what you have produced. Discuss methods and tools you have used. Reference everything you have done today. Use screenshots
What were the strengths of your research? How did your research help your product?
What were the weaknesses of your research? What could you have done better/improve? What effect would this have had on your product?
Think about existing products as well as practical experiments
What were the strengths of your planning? How did your planning help your product?
What were the weaknesses of your planning? What could you have done better/improve? What effect would this have had on your product?
Did you manage your time well? Did you complete your project on time or would your products have improved with additional time?
What would you have done if you had more time to produce your work?
Compare your work to similar existing products and discuss the similarities and differences
Is your work technically detailed/complicated enough? What effects and techniques have you used? How did you create your effects? How did you record your audio? Did you use any foley methods?
Does your work sound good? Was it creative? What aspects of your audio do you like? What would you improve? How would you improve it?
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses
How have you appealed to your target audience? What specific bits of content would appeal to your target audience.
