So this was a daunting assignment. I was overwhelmed mainly because there was no blunt tutorial on how to use Audacity and the steps that follow to make the assignment for the 5 sound story. But, using my resources, I looked at the DS106 Handbook and found out how to layer sounds and use Audacity in general. Once I watched that, I was able to put all of the clips together and tweak everything just the way I wanted.

I searched for sound effects on freesounds and saved those to a file. Once in Audacity, I imported all of the audio files into the program. I deleted portions of the clips, moved them around, and pieced everything together the way I wanted it.

Here’s how it ended up:

The story is that a woman is going to a concert. She’s walking down the street outside, and her heels are hitting the sidewalk, she opens the door to the concert and immediately she’s drawn into the noise of the crowd. She hears the soundcheck going on and then the roar and applause of the crowd as the performer takes the stage and begins to play.