Ok, so here is my “Sound Effects Story” I created.  I decided to do a story about a car crash.
It starts out with the Moon family taking a nice relaxing Sunday drive. The Moon family and everyone else are driving sensibly, when all of a sudden a loud horn, coming from the Moon family’s car, bursts out it’s warning sign.  This happens right before, OH NO, a huge crash. A car pulled out in front of the Moon family and they were unable to stop. The police were quick to respond, anticipation builds as you hear the police man get out of his car and walk towards the cars involved in the accident.  The rest is left up to your imagination.

To do this assignment I first downloaded Audacity.  Then I Googled sound clips of what I thought a car accident should sound like.  I found all of my sounds at http://soundbible.com/tags-driving.html , http://www.autospeak.com/library.htm, and http://soundjay.com/transportation/sounds/car-honk-2.mp3.  They let you preview the sound and then you can download it to computer either as a Wave or MP3 file.  Then I opened Audacity to a new sound page and opened all of the 6 sounds into the same page. I trimmed the sounds to make them work with my story and so they would not drag on forever. Then I was able to rearrange the sounds into the order in which I wanted them to play.  I then exported my file as a wave file because not everywhere will open Audacity.  And lastly I uploaded it into my blog and Soundcloud account. All that together gives me my “Story of a Car Crash.”

Urban Traffic: Mike Koenig (soundbible.com)

Car Horn; Soundjay.com

Car-oops: AutoSpeak.com

Police Siren 3: vlammenos (soundbible.com)

Car Door Close Outside: Mike Koenig (soundbible.com)

Walking Away (Footsteps): Mike Koenig (soundbible.com)

Enjoy!

Sunday Drive Gone Wrong!