Sonic Design —Project 2 Audio storytelling

  Week 7 - Week 8

7June2025 - 17June2025

QIULIHUA/0365036

Sonic Design / Bachelor of Design (Honours)in Creative Media

Project 2 Audio storytelling ——Sonic Design

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INSTRUCTION

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Project 2 Audio storytelling 

Students will select a popular fairy tale of their choice and create and audiobook. This assignment goes one step further than auditory imaging. Now, students not only need to think about a suitable soundscape, but they need to record the sound with a suitable voiceover and bring all of this together with sound effects to highlight and enhance the storytelling experience. Imagine this is a radio show.

Before this project began, the teacher taught us the techniques we could use to edit our raw sound clips.The teacher used the sample-video audio from week 2 as a reference for practice.

AutoGate：

Adjust the threshold to match the frequency of unwanted sounds (breathing)

Fig 1.0 AutoGate（progress）

Noise reduction: 

First, select the part of the audio that needs to be noise-reduced, then click to capture the noise sample, then click Noise Reduction (Processing) to modify it.

Fig 1.1 Noise reduction（progress）

proposal：

Fig 1.2 proposal

Then I used my phone to record, but after many attempts I found that my role was not very good, so I sought help from my friends, who helped me with the roles of Little Red Riding Hood, Little Red Riding Hood's mother and the Big Bad Wolf.

Fig1.3 process

Then the teacher thought that there was too much noise in our audio, and it felt like there was a lot of space around us, so the sound was not concentrated together. He suggested that we try recording in a quilt, which would isolate the surrounding noise.I re-recorded the audio of this exercise based on the teacher's advice.

Fig 1.4 process

And re-import it into Adobe Audition for modification.

I modified each audio segment in the editor at the beginning. I shortened the extra blank parts by using stretching and pitch shifting.

Fig1.5 Stretch and Pitch

In order to make sure that there is no particularly abrupt sound in the sound of each audio segment, I lowered the height of the particularly high audio by one fold to the same level as the other audio.

Fig 1.6Modify audio pitch

After finishing the audio, I used AI to create the story picture. I imported the final audio and picture into Capcut and added the letters.

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FEEDBACK

week 9:

General Feedback: The dialogues between characters are too short

Specific Feedback:The dialogue between characters is too short. It needs four dialogues. I can add a dialogue at the beginning where the mother warns her daughter not to talk to strangers.

week 10:

General Feedback: There is a little bit of noise in the audio, and it sounds like the surrounding space is large and the sound is scattered

Specific Feedback:You can try recording in bed, so that the sound is more concentrated and the surrounding extra sounds are blocked.