sound design
• The M.Sc course - Storytelling through Sound helped me dive into sound design. It is amazing how much of a difference a well-made audio - designed with care and finesse - makes to the overall experience in entertainment, games or even just to listen to.
• I used sound design in various projects, as you can explore below
Audio Story - The While True
The While True is a TV show-episodic style thriller audio story, with thrills and spills and comedic trills sprinkled in between. The story revolves around Jack, who faces not one, but two troublesome situations to overcome.
List of recorded sounds:
1. SF-666 microphone: Buggy’s voice, Narration, Jack’s thoughts, Indian trickster in the museum (Credits – Brolin Fernandes)
2. Samson meteorite microphone: Jack’s female voice (Credits – Miriam Riefel)
Audio in Breathing exercise games
As part of my Master thesis, I proposed some theory related to the possible roles of audio/music in breathing exercise games. These are: 1. Ambience: Suitable background audio, music and preference - to provide enjoyment, attention and intrinsic motivation for activity/exercises
2. Rhythm: To provide a rhythm according to which gamers can breathe, eg: the beats/counts of a song, a metronome, etc.
3. Instructional audio: Audio cues to guide correct breathing behavior, eg: inhalation/exhalation sounds at right instants, rising/falling tones, verbal instructions, etc.
4. Feedback: Audio feedback according to player performance, eg: addition of noise, changing tones of music, adding correct/incorrect sounding beats/notes according to how the player breathes, etc.
An example of how such audio in a breathing exercise game can be designed is shown in the image below:
Musique Concrete
Experimental technique of musical composition using random recorded sounds as raw material. Enhanced/edited/effect-added versions of these sounds are used to make a musical composition that is random, yet not so random. Have a listen!
All sounds in this audio are recorded with Zoom H2N:
- Church bells
- Church choir singing "Amen"
- Frying pork
- Harp
- Random market chatter
Changing the mood
A 'Storytelling through Sound' assignment, where we needed to change the mood of an existing monologue with by exploring sound design and effects.
Original monologue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQA8qWYm…nnel=GraceWoosley