Here are some sound effect ideas you could use to enhance the script: - Crunching leaves - record yourself crunching dried leaves outside - Wind blowing - overlap recordings of blowing into a microphone, rustling cloth/paper - Whispers - record very low whispers to add suspense during conversations - Knife sounds - look up free sound effect libraries online for realistic knife pull/slice sounds - Distant owl/wolf howls - add to the eerie forest atmosphere - Dripping blood - create using a syringe full of water squeezed over a surface - Bones/limbs breaking - again, search online libraries for authentic medical sounds - Heavy breathing - record yourself

1. Audio
Jessie Bourke

2. Existing Products Research
• The Archers: 09/02/20
– Analysis
– I only listened to three minutes of this as it was
quite boring and the narrative of it was dull even
with different voice characters.
– The sound effects where at the begging where the
sounds of a horse trotting by.
– There is also a bit of music as well in the
background before the people start talking

3. Existing Products Research
• Beach soundscape
– Analysis
– If you closed your eyes and listened to this, you
can see yourself at the beach.
– The overlapping of sound with the seagulls the
waves and people chatting shows the image and
scene of a beach day

4. Existing Products Research
• Haunted house soundscape
– Analysis
– This is very interesting. The overlapping of
different background musics gives the idea of
someone running or trying to escape their own
death.
– The sound effects that overlap the chilling music
make the audio even more interesting as
it builds the tension up.
– For me this give me ideas for the project.

5. Existing Products Research
• short cuts : family ties
– Analysis
– There is background music and sound effects, but
it doesn’t interest me in to keep listening to the
audio.
– The short snipets of family words don’t make me
want to listen further either. It was boring just not
interesting at all there wasn’t a story or
gripping to my attention

6. Bibliography
1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q
pgr/episodes/player (09/02/20)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIUTO4
gx5Eg (beach soundscape)
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JVm2
IZ3ChU (horror sondscape)
4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m
k3f8/episodes/player (family ties)

7. Ideas

8. Sam : voice actor with
multiple creepy voices
Basic story: a girl has an overprotective side she's kept it
under-raps until now when a double murderis on her
hands .
The story
My friends and I entered the woods like nothing would happen until
we all stopped in a clearing in the middle of the woods, my hands
where clamy and shaking. My hair stood on its end. Shivers crawled
up my spine slowly sending chilling nerves to my brain. It all started to
go so slow. I blinked and they werent there anymore. One was ripped
to shreds, her blood dripping from her hanging limbs to the ground
that was once covered in bronze leaves but now thick crimson blood.
My other friend his insides where hanging like a party banner, his skin
was laying on the ground like a carpet. Both their bones where built
together to create a throne where their eyes laid at the top like
jewels.
I look down at my hands I see blooddripping of my figure tips, a knife
at my feet covered in blood. My clothes drenched with what seems to
be their blood. I look up and I notice a note on the tree. "I saved you
from what they were going do, you wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for
me child". she's back

9. Idea Generation / Initial
Reaction
Sounds to includes
Crunching of leaves to start
with
Dripping of water for
when the blood is
dripping
A clicking sound for
when they blink to the
scene
Hands rubbing together dry
then in water for when it's
talked about each time
The sound of birds in the
background
* crows & tweeting birds
e.g. *
The sound of wind
Creepy background musc to
make it sound eerie but it'll be
on the low
For the voice I'll be
asking my friends who
does voice acting to help
me with this so I can see
it with different voices to
which suites best
I might take a video of the
night sky with moon as it a
useful creepy
movement especially with
clouds slowly moving
I could change the colour
to blood red or anothere
creepy colour to story to
add to its creepiness
I'm using a background
video to add effect like
creepiness.
I've asked my friend
who is doing the voice
acting for me to use a
strong posh British
accent with a
creepy edge to it. It has
worked well for the
story line as I have
tested it

10. Idea Generation/
Initial Reaction
Doing the voices I'm going
to have my voice actor
chance voices to give it
more dynamic between a
character and
personalities. There will be
an adult posh British
accent with a creepy edge
to it then to a childish
voice to add the edge in
the conversation.

11. Proposal
Working Title: the trip to hell
Audience:
My audience is people who are horror lovers aged 16+ it isn't specific to genders. I'm mainly aiming for the
social status of c1 as its 29% of the population, I am trying to appeal to all lifestyles. my project would
appeal to this type of audience as it will attract a good percentage of people to listen to it. there is over 25%
of the population who like horror which is a major factor to gaining peoples interest, the product will appeal
to teenagers as most teens like to listen to music or audio stories. This would also appeal to older people
(19+) as these people like to figure out what will happen and see if they can figure out specific things about a
story.
Project Concept (approx. 200 words)
The concept for my project is to draw people into a dimension where they can imagine the scene happening
as if it was real, by doing this the sounds behind the story need to have a resemblance to the words and the
story line in general. I'm going to make a horror story from my own imagination with some inspiration that
came from books that I have read, for example: Fireborn, Twilight, Maze runner. Another concept for my
project is that I have no limit to the imagination the audience has to this story, so they can over think the
ending because it has a cliffhanger. While researching I learnt that there are different types of sounds and
podcasts, the more sounds are layered the better the podcast. I also found out that horror podcasts are
more popular as there's always a mystery to the story line, there's also something about the audio in the
background that makes the story line sound like its getting worse and more intense so it keeps the audience
listening, also during research a background image or video can also help with giving the audience and idea
of what the baseline of the story scene will be (only if it's in a video )

12. Experiments
On blogger as separate
documents

13. Planning

14. Script Draft
Intro and background music: some low drum sounds with a creepy twinkle
Narrator: *introduces the scene first*
- forest scene: describe the place **
- story
My friends and I entered the woods like nothing would happen until we all stopped in a
clearing in the middle of the woods, my hands where clamy and shaking. My hair stood on
its end. Shivers crawled up my spine slowly sending chilling nerves to my brain. It all
started to go so slow. I blinked and they werent there anymore. One was ripped to shreds,
her blood dripping from her hanging limbs to the ground that was once covered in bronze
leaves but now thick crimson blood. My other friend his insides where hanging like a party
banner, his skin was laying on the ground like a carpet. Both their bones where
built together to create a throne where their eyes laid at the top like jewels.
I look down at my hands I see blooddripping of my figure tips, a knife at my feet covered in
blood. My clothes drenched with what seems to be their blood. I look up and I notice a
note on the tree. "I saved you from what they were going do, you wouldn’t be alive if it
wasn’t for me child". she's back

15. Script Final
• Intro and background music: some low drum sounds with a creepy twinkle and a low growl or humm
• Narrator: *introduces the scene first* - forest scene: describe the place ** night,noises,the weather, the atmosphere
• story
• my name is devila and my friends and I entered the woods one night like nothing would happen until we all stopped in a clearing in the
middle of the woods, my hands where clamy and shaking. The girls started to whisper between them like they were about to pass out.
I heard the sliding of a knife, My hair stood on its end. Shivers crawled up my spine slowly sending chilling nerves to my brain. It
all started to go so slow. I turned round looking at the girls who had evil smirks on their faces, but I blinked and they weren't there
anymore. I looked around me, I could smell the fresh sent of a metallic odor I looked up and one was ripped to shreds, her blood
dripping from her hanging limbs to the ground that was once covered in bronze leaves but now thick crimson blood. I continued to
look for the other friend but I neednt look far, my other friend's guts and organs where hanging like a party banner, his skin was laying
on the ground like a carpet. Both their bones where built together to create a throne where their eyes laid at the top like jewels. I look
down at my hands I see blood dripping of my figure tips, a knife at my feet covered in blood. My clothes drenched with what seems
to be their blood. I look up and I notice a note on the tree. "I saved you from what they were going do, you wouldn’t be alive if
it wasn’t for me child". i remember that nickname, but I thought I buried that soul deep... (in a child voice) {well hello me it's nice to
see the scary side appear this normal version of us is getting a little to bruised. Can't have our host dying can we..} With that my body
fell to the red pool of blood and everything blacked but before it did, I saw a shadow closing the distance between us.
• What will happen? Is devila gonna be alright?
• Intro music - 30 secs of creepy outside music
• Narrator - The night was cold and foggy, the moon's glow shone lightly through the trees. The wind picked up ever so slightly that the
leaves of trees and bushes began to rustle the brown leaves on the floor became crows circling the ground and sky.
• A little bit of a pause.

16. Sound Effects
Sound Effect Needed How I Will Create the Sound
TREES GET SOME LEAVES FROM OUTSIDE AND CRUNCH THEM
TOGETHER LET THEM FALL TO THE FLOOR.
WIND RECORD THE SOUND OUTSIDE OR OVERLAP SOUNDS LIKE
BLOWING AND WAFTING CLOTH AND OR PAPER
CRUNCHING USING SOME GRAVEL/SUGER/LEAVES AND STEPPING ON
THEM
LOW WHISPERS WHISPERING AT A LOW LEVEL
TOOLS USING / / /
KNIVES * pulling them out the knife holder give a metalic soundfor
when the narator says she gives one blink
ROLLING PINS *dropping and wacking
*NO PERSON OR ANIMAL HAS BEEN HARMED

17. Actors/Locations
Actor Role Location for
recording
Sam voice QUIET PLACES
MYSELF SOUND EFFECTS ANYWHERE THAT HAS TREES
SAM IS USING HER BRITISH
ACCENT WHICH SOUND POSH
AND IT HAS A CREEPY EDGE TO
IT WHICH IS USEFUL

18. Music
Band Name Track Name Link
N / A
I am creating
all my own
music also I
would be using
sounds i create
and outside sounds
for the effect.

19. Resource List
Resource Owned/Cost What sound effect will it be
used for?
knives n/a Background effect of slicing
Rolling pin n/a Background effect to hitting
Gravel n/a walking effect
cloth n/a Wind effect
sugar n/a Walking effect
leaves n/a Walking and wind effect
There was nothing harmed

20. Production

21. Daily Reflection Day 1,2 &second
lesson of day 3
• I had finished of my script and was
finish working on any other missing
sections from this project all slides
from 1 to 20 are now complete.
• Some of my project is on blogger or
YouTube or not yet uploaded
because it won't be allowed.

22. Daily Reflection Day 3 last two lessons
• During the last two lessons I have been
figuring out how to use audition without a
demonstration from my tutor. I figure most of
the panels out I managed to create a tune that
sounded like it was glass but I played it with a
pixeling video and it suited it very well. I used
three sounds to create the final sound it
turned out quite good.

23. In-between days where sound where
recorded
• Recording sound at home
• Thurs 5th to sun 8th
• I got most of the sounds that I am using
recorded at home I also reused sounds from
past recordings as I over laid them to create
another sound to get the forest talk to sound
creepy and also to make the sounds I needed
but didn’t record.

24. Daily Reflection Day 4
• I started sorting the audio out by going
through the draft narration and positioning
through the podcast where pauses are.
• I also started figuring out where or how long
the podcast could possibly be.

25. Daily Reflection Day 5
• Today I got further in sorting out the audio I
over laid sounds in other files and exported
them to the use them in my final product
• So far it sounds good when I get the final draft
of the speech from my voice actress. I can
finalise the product by Monday 16th march.

26. Daily Reflection Day 6
• I have finished my final product just going to
sound check it on Monday 16th to check it all
works together.
• Update 16/03/20
The audio works perfectly and is now uploaded
to Youtube and blogger.

27. Evaluation

28. Research
• Through research I struggled to understand a podcast until I looked further
into it, the further I got into the research the more I understood and
wanted to try It out for myself.
• The topic of the podcast was to be scary/ Horror, so I looked more into
scarier podcasts to see what sound effects where used. I also looked into
what other people interpreted for a horror podcasts.
• My strengths during this was the ideas that I had while I looked further
into horror and started my story line.
• My weakness would be that I hadn't found enough information about
podcasts and how it is useful . And that I may have used and re-used the
same sounds to create more sounds.

29. Planning
• During planning I got a lot of information down on how I would go
through the process.
• My strengths while I was planning were how I was gonna manage my time
and what I recorded. I believe that I manged and planned my project well
enough to be done on time and to my standard of what I expeted.
• My weakness would be preparing to get a voice recorder so I couldstar
straight away but I still got what I needed done.
I struggled with making sure I had recorded all sounds as I have a busy
schedual with work as well.

30. Time Management
• As I said in planning my time management, I have been able to finish the
project without any extra time on the production during the evaluation
week.
• From past projects I haven't been well time managed so I have
remembered that and stuck to a schedule strictly so I could manage to
finish product in the last production week I can further this with my FMP.
• I did find that I used some of the production days to finish more of the
PowerPoint off, so I would say that I struggled to get the first section on
time but i still completed it on time eventually.

31. Technical Qualities
The technical qualities I have is all the sound had been created by me
via recording or a Beepbox.
I didn’t find any problems while recording my sounds,
other than when I had a busy schedule
I overlapped sounds to create other sounds for different purposes
like the sound of gushing blood or other sounds that would be
difficult to record.
In this section I don’t think I had any weakness' with the technical
qualities maybe just where I position the sounds

32. Aural Qualities
The aural quality is that the audio radiates a dark theme this is
due the script and the sounds that is included. the reason for this
is because the theme across the board was horror or a scary
experience, i tried to focus on a more gore feel for this audio.
i believe i have succeeded with the horror and gore part but i also
feel like i had dragged the story on to much. if i do audio again my
target would be to make the gore come first like a flash-forward
to the future but then bring it back and add more emotion to the
script

33. Audience Appeal
My audience that I have been trying to appeal to is 16+ . I believe I
have been able to appeal to the target audience of 16-18 year
olds.
i do believe that most horror lovers would enjoy this but criticise it
has ammature horror as i believe its not the best horror.
in future audio projects i am suggesting to myself to ask a random
selection of people to do a survey on what things they like in
horror and to then use that as structure for the script.