Okay, this assignment started off to be a pain in my ass (excuse my language) but I managed to fight through it and learn to love Audacity.  I’ve never used it before but had a BLAST making this clip.  I started out with about fifteen different types of clips from Freesound, but narrowed my selection down and found the right ones to use for my clip.  I managed to make it 1:30 and I think it sounds really really cool!  Definitely a lot of tension but check it out!

When I first opened up Audacity, I had no idea what I was doing.  I’m the type of person that doesn’t like to look up directions, so I played around with it until I was comfortable enough making my own clip.  Then the fun began.  I used Thunder on a loop, Heartbeat on a loop, a door opening, a creaking floor, and a crash for my five sound clips.  I think that I used them all appropriately and actually got wrapped up in the assignment I lost track of time.

My main goal was to create something that made you sit on the edge of your seat.  Being my first attempt at this, I believe that I most definitely succeeded.  I’m going to Tweet this out for sure and try to get people to comment on this because I’m proud of what I made.  It’s amazing what mashing a couple of audio clips can get you.  Definitely something fun and exciting to play around with.  I’ll be doing this a lot more with other clips in the near future.

If I had to choose, I would say that this was one of the best assignments that I’ve done so far this semester in this class.  It was a lot of fun to be able to mix and match different clips and create something of my own based on what I thought sounded the best in each spot.  I hope that you all enjoy the clip and comment for me please!

I was unaware that it was only supposed to be 60 seconds and instead, I made it 90 seconds.  I hope that Professor Burtis lets this one slide!  Just think of how much less intense it would be without those extra 30 seconds