My group for the Sound Effects Story consisted of myself, Maura Monahan, and Nick Antonini. Since the morning routine cliché was shot down by Jim Groom, we had to create our entire story in twenty minutes. Like the rest of the class, our minds went straight towards tragic accidents. We decided to start by laying down the scene for our story. The birds are chirping and the weather was nice enough that our main character decided to take a walk down the street. We used footsteps and whistling to portray the man’s enjoyment of the nice day and the sounds of traffic so you would know he was near a roadway. We let this take up a decent amount of time to set the mood and add suspense. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere the man screams (for this we used the famous Wilhelm scream). Then we inserted the common sounds of a car accident: wheels screeching, vehicle parts flying, ect. After a short silence you begin to hear the ambulance approaching in the distance. We used freesound.org for all of our sound effects. Our Sound Effect Story can be found here:

http://soundcloud.com/nick-antonini/ohh-no-1