My 5 sound story includes 5 sounds that I found on the Freesound website.  To make my 5 sound story I listened to a lot of different clips on Freesound and I decided on 5 that I liked the best and that went together like it would a story.  To make this story I downloaded the software Audacity.  I have actually used Audacity before taking this class.  I used Audacity for making recordings for band class.  I have only really done recordings on audacity so it was interesting for me to learn how to use Audacity for editing.

The first thing I did in audacity is to figure out the order of my sounds and how they connected the best.  After figuring out the order of the sounds I then cut and paste the sounds into one track one right after the other.  Now comes the real editing part, condensing the sound to fit 90 seconds or less and figuring out what should stay in the sound story and what should not.  While editing my five sound story I took out parts that I felt were too repetitive and I kept the parts that I thought flowed the best with my story.

With this sound story I was trying to build up suspense to the final sound.  My sound story starts out kind of eerie and spooky, starting to build up suspense.  This sound story is called A Haunted House.  I’ve never really been a fan of haunted houses or scary movie, but I like how they build up suspense.  In my sound story I build up suspense using 5 different sound clips that I downloaded.  I put them in a logical order of the suspense.

I found converting my audacity file to a .wav file was easy.  You just export the .aud file to the .wav file.  Afterwards I then uploaded my sound file to Soundcloud.  I also made sure to enable downloads of my Soundcloud file.

Below is my embedded 5 sound story from Soundcloud.  I tried to keep it at 90 seconds but my story is 91 seconds.  I have never made a 5 sound audio story before, and I hope you enjoy it.  Any comments or feedback would be much appreciated that will help me to improve for the next time.