Like many of our ds106 assignments, I was very skeptical about the sound effect story assignment, but I ended up having a lot of fun with it! This assignment really made me feel so much more comfortable using audacity. I found all of my sound effects on freesound.org. I downloaded the sound effects in the order that I wanted to tell my story in. Then I loaded them and trimmed them down one by one using Audacity. I played around with it for a while until I had a final product I was happy with.

I thought forever about what to do my sound effect story about, I wanted to do something that involved a lot of sounds (obviously). I decided to create a story of someone’s typical morning. I believe I used about 10 different sound effects. My story begins with someone snoring, then an alarm going off. Next you can hear someone rolling out of bed and walking to the bathroom. They take a shower, then they pull back the shower curtain and flush the toilet. It amazes me how sound effects can tell a story. I think my view of digital storytelling has finally changed! IT IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!