Sonic Design - Project 2: Audio Storytelling

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21.10.2024 - 8.12.2024 / Week 9 - Week 11
Adriena Tan Yan Zi / 0351236 / BA of Design (HONS) in Creative Media
Sonic Design
Project 2

Lectures

Week 10: 
This week sir wants us to practice our storytelling skills with an advertisment exercise in an hour we have to submit the end product edited with background music and sound effects. 

Sample Scripts for Radio Commercials

I picked the Cat show commercials for the exercise. 




Final Exercise Week 10 



Instructions 

Project 2: Audio Storytelling

For this project, we need to select a fairy tale we’re familiar with and create an audiobook. The lecturer recommended choosing a story we know well to better convey expression and emotion. The recording should be done in a quiet space, using a pitch and tone appropriate for the story. Finally, we’ll enhance the audiobook by adding sound effects to complete the experience. I chose to do my favourite childhood tale that I still deeply cherished now, My little pony. 


Script  
For the script to be accurate, I had to refer back to the episode where they were introducing the history of Equestria which is at the very beginning of the show. 

After drafting the script, I realized that the content was too lengthy and would exceed the project's time limit. Therefore, I decided to cut the script in half and leave the rest for a continuation. This allows me to focus on delivering higher-quality storytelling and more polished sound effects editing.


Visuals


For the visuals, I screenshot some of them from he video but it wasn't enough to let the audience visualise so i have to go online and search for a few more to add on to the collection. Once i feel that I have enough, I moved on to arranging them in sequence according to the story. 


Sound effects
Analysing the scenarios in the script and the video, I started determining what type of sound effects i would need to enhance over my narration. Here are a few that I concluded:
  • Rooster call
  • Owl hooting 
  • children laughing and playing 
  • sleeping and snoring sound
  • flipping pages 
  • magic sound
  • magic (unicorns)
  • wings flapping (Pegasi)
  • hooves galloping sound (earth ponies) 
  • writing/ scribbling sounds 


Narration audio 

For my narration, I noticed my voice was a bit hoarse, so I did some vocal exercises until I felt confident enough to record. I turned off the fan and air conditioner to ensure a quiet environment, but it still wasn’t completely silent due to nearby electrical appliances. Eventually, I locked myself in a quiet room and waited for the birds to finish singing before starting my recording. Finally that it's quiet, i recording a few times keeping in mind to lessen the lip smacking and breathing control as i talk, i also had to find a consistent voice for the narration and a different one for the voice acting. 

I then imported my narration audio into Adobe Audition and edited it, even added reverb and equaliser to sound more convincing. 




The final edited narration audio is attached below. 



Editing music & sound effects in Adobe Audition 

Paramatic Equaliser


chorus

For some off the highlighted part where it is important to mention, i also added chorus and the parametic equaliser to it so enhance the effects and make it sound fuller. 



Pitch shifter

For some of the characters like Spike and Celestia where they have a lower voice, I added the pitch shifter and turned on high precission for their voices to sound clearer. However, with just the pitch shifter alone, their voices sounded a but too harsh to be a female low voice, so I aslo added the equaliser to enhance the tone a little. 



  Denoise
I feel there is no need to add the DeEsser to my audio track so i just added the denoise and i feel it got ride of most of the background white noise. 



Multitrack

Here is what the entire final multitrack looks like with all the sound effects, music and voice over. 

Editing in Premiere Pro


Entire workspace

Finally after editing all the audio, I compiled the audio and visuals, aligning them all together in premiere pro to complete the audiobook. I also added transitions to the visuals for a smoother effect. 


Final Project 2: Storytelling

Youtube link 




Feedbacks

Week 9: 
For project 2, we can plan what story to choose and draft out the script first. 

Reflection

Working on this project was a delightful experience, especially recording and narrating the story. Since it’s a childhood tale I hold close to my heart, revisiting it brought back fond memories. While it was a bit of a challenge to create a quiet, noise-free environment, I eventually managed to get a decent recording using my phone.

The sound editing process, however, presented its own difficulties. Syncing my narration with the background music was tricky, as the music often overlapped my voice, making some sections inaudible. After some adjustments, realignments, and careful editing, I succeeded in harmonizing my voice, the music, and the graphics.

I also took the opportunity to apply some of the new techniques I learned in class, which made the editing process more enjoyable. Although it was initially frustrating, I eventually got the hang of it and found myself having fun experimenting with different approaches.


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