Today's blog will be about a recent sound layering project I did in class, since I SLAYED so hard in the project (your girl got FULL mark😁); I will walk you through the experience I had while editing, and of course it will include the editing software as well as the origin of all the sound effects (I GOT your back, girly😏). With that being said, let's JUMP STRAIGHT to today's content!!!
Sound Story Project
Sound layering visual example
This project is mainly composed of three different parts: the script and the foley stage video (and YESS, we have to create at least 4 sound effects by ourselves🥲) and lastly, the sound project itself. This project required my blood and tears🫠, and I'm not kidding you when I said it took me 8 HOURS for everything. Now, since you got the idea of my endless suffering, let's start with the script!!
The Script
This is our newest member, Gau🐻
The objective of this project is to conveya story using mainly sound; we have a word limit of 7 words. After hearing the instructions, me and my partner immediately thought about a journey of us going home and feeding my cats (yes, my PRECIOUS babies (we adopted another one🥰)); however, things didn't turn out to be so well, as we had to exclude the feeding part due to the time limit. I was disappointed but grateful at the same time. As you may or may not know, my baby doesn't meow that much. She's a bit reserved and quite compared to other cats. It will be quite TEDIOUS if we were to record her sound. Overall, we didn't struggle as hard in this part compared to the rest; I will rate this experience an easy-peasy/10.
P/S:I will insert our script below so you can slowly comprehend our creative/genius plan😏
TIME PERIOD: 0:00 - 0:39 SETTING: Classroom
(last period) - Soft
chatter of students - Clock
ticking - Pages
flipping - Books
being closed - Zipper of
a backpack - Sound of
books being stuffed in backpack - Chairs scraping
as student stand - Clock
ticking fastens -> bell rings
TIME PERIOD: 0:40-0:58 SETTING:
School hallway -> Student parking lot - Footsteps - Students
chatting - Door
creaking open - Wind
rushes past - Bird chirping - Humming - Car unlock
sound - Dialogue
“Bye, see you” - Car door
open - Car door
close - Car engine
starts
TIME PERIOD: 0:59-1:53 SETTING:
On the road driving home - Button
sound (to turn on music) - Background
music - Car seat
belt warning - Putting
seat belt on (warning stop) - Car
driving sound - Traffic - Turing
signal sound (blinker ticking) - Car’s
slowing down sound -> come to complete stop - Grab key -> key jingling - Car door
close - Car lock
sound - Foot step
sound (walking toward the house) - House door
open - House door
close
The Foley Stage Video
Filming ourselves creating these sound effects was fairly easy for us. We filmed this quite late as night—after the script and the sound story video—therefore we decided to do something simple with our cars since they kind of line up with our script. All of our effects were car related except for the last one, the door close sound effect (yall girls tried to be different here😅). Filming these effects took only a few minutes; however, if I ever get the chance to redo this project, I would've filmed the door close sound effect inside the house to limit most of the unwanted background noise. Beside that, the editing stage was NO SWEAT!! With the experience from the past editing project that I did, this reduced the editing time tremendously. Overall, I would rate the editing experience on these foley stages a light work/10😤
P/S: I will insert the 'foley stage' video below, so you can check out my flawless work😏
The Sound Story Video
This section is the reason why my hairline is RECEDING😇. Layering all the sounds took me7 HOURS(let's all say bye to my precious nap time🥲), although the nature of the project wasn't difficult. Since this is my first time dealing with all the sound layering, this unexpectedly turned out to be the MOST tedious part. Thanks to CapCut, the editing software I often use to edit video, this process didn't take all night and this is another day of saving myself, a day closer to a restless death🥹. Even though it took me a while to figure out CapCut's sound layering mechanism, from ways to extract audio from a video to ways to lower and increase volume ("sound fade" to guarantee a smoothest transition), things went so much more effortlessly after the first 4 TORTURING hours. Despite all the advantages CapCut carried, its sound effect selection is extremely limited to our standard (YES!! your girls are going ALL out). After debating different choices, the best option we came up with is to screen record the sound effects from YouTube, then use CapCut's sound extraction feature to get the CRISPEST sound. Well, if we exclude all the misery I have been through, this project surely is the most educational yet interesting, and it definitely gave me an opportunity to learn new skills that might be useful in the near future. Overall, I will rate this section a never-again/10 (I AM NOT doing through all that pain again🫠).
P/S: I will insert our sound story video below so you can see the product of my blood and tears.
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