Create a Sound Story

Your next project will be to create a Sound Story that tells a narrative and sets a mood through music and sound, but without speech.

Purpose:

• Learn to edit sound using a multitrack audio software (Audacity)
• Use sound creatively to express your ideas and thoughts
• Learn to understand the concepts of background and foreground sound

Steps:

1. Make-up a very short scene or story to tell through your Sound Story (i.e. travelling to school, a wild party, a crime, a spooky haunted house, a sad moment, a happy celebration, an outdoor nature scene etc.)
2. Go to Incompetech and download Royalty Free background music to set the mood for your story.
3. Use SoundBible or FreeSound to download free sounds as foreground sound effects to tell the story.
4. Use Audacity to put the sounds together to tell the story.  Your total Sound Story should be 30 seconds to 1 minute long.  

Help:

Audacity Video Tutorial here.