Story by Sounds, Listen Closely

Story by Sounds, Listen Closely

by @carrie_vogel

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February 13, 2019

This assignment was much more fun after breaking through the anxiety wall of recording myself in the previous assignment. I made a story with audio only, different sounds to be exact. It’s pretty simple, comment with your idea of what the story t...
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Sound Effect Story

by @madeleine_ds106

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February 13, 2019

I did it! I successfully used Audacity! I did need some help from the Digital Knowledge Center at UMW, but I did it! My Sound Effect Story isn’t very interesting, but it’s relatable. It is intended to be the story of someone’s mornin...
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Just a Day at the Beach…not

by @CatyWarner

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February 13, 2019

For my sound effects-only story, I had a hard time trying to come up with a story to do. I...
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A Story With Sound

by @Riley80256802

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February 12, 2019

Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds. Another example (by a UMW student): http://ds10...
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A conversation in Italy

by @bfrullads106

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February 10, 2019

Listen to this short audio story with headphones before continuing: Thanks for listening to my short ‘wordless’ story. I consider this to still be my wordless short story– despite the people speaking in Italian; because they provide no actual narration to the story. (That is, unless one of you speaks Italian, in which case, I […]
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The Myth of Apollo

by @richelleholnick

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October 9, 2018

Listen before reading This is the story of Apollo. He was born, it was beautiful, he played the lyre, then Zeus came (he did some bad things-hence the thunder!). But, in the end, it was okay again and he played the lyre and lived happily ever after. F...
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Sound Effect Story

by @FaulconerKyle

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September 28, 2018

For this assignment I wanted to interoperate my created character Rocket Richard. For this particular task I had to create a story using only sound effects. For this I used the suggested free sound website to grab my audio files. I ended up creating the scene of Rocket Richards Father’s death. In my story Rocket …
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Becoming a Super

by @chloversgarden

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September 28, 2018

This assignment fit my character very well. This clip provides her transition from human to animal. It starts with her jumping from the Cat statue to the ground, gathering herContinue readingBecoming a Super
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Commuter Sounds

by @EmilyHutchins8

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September 28, 2018

When I saw this (3.5 stars), I thought it would be good to tell the story of commuting to classes. I am a commuter student, so this is my routine of driving to campus everyday. I used freesound to find all of the sounds and was amazed with all of the o...
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Feed the baby!!!

by @OraMyAura

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September 28, 2018

My Sound Effects story – boy this was DIFF – I – CULT! But I got through it and am glad I did!
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Sound Effects Story

by @Tyra13748487

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September 28, 2018

Here’s the audio story of Deidra getting out of school on a Friday. After a long week filled with so much homework and exams, she was excited to leave school after her last class. These are some of the sounds that Deidra heard today while leaving school and making her way back home. I tried …
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Sound Effects Story

by @Alexis54552906

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September 28, 2018

Sound Effects story took me the most amount of time. It was difficult coming up with what story to do let alone actually create it. I decided to do the story of a sports game. I hope it somewhat resembles a game. I’ve been to enough to know! &nb...
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Sound Effects Story

by @ArthurDrag1

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September 28, 2018

I made a short little story about Irri using only sound effects! I like to think that he woke up from a nightmare, got into a fight with a lawn mower, and was shot out through a portal to the beach. I tried to use only sounds that I either collected or created (one sound … Continue reading Sound Effects Story
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Do you know what’s happening?

by @richelleholnick

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September 28, 2018

Can you guess the story of these sounds? This is someone cooking something and then in the end burning themselves when they take it out. Sounds featured are an egg crack, milk being poured, the bowl being stirred, it going in the pan and into the oven...
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Sound Effects Story

by @tifamonster

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September 27, 2018

I found this assignment to be very interesting because we had to use sound effects to tell a story. I used six different sound effects – sleeping, barking dog, yawning, walking on hardwood floor, opening and closing a door, and outside birds – to tell this story. This is the story of a person who … Continue reading Sound Effects Story
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Ice Cream Truck!

by @suzzcat

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September 27, 2018

For my story using sound effects, I chose a kid swinging on a swing and he/she hears the ice cream truck coming, and they just go running. I chose that specific story because that is such a great memory for me as a kid. I lived in a small neighborhood, and whenever the ice cream truck …
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No words

by @maci_winebarger

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September 27, 2018

What is this supposed to be?
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A Realistic Horror Story

by @JessicaDS106

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September 26, 2018

I hope you didn’t have your volume turned up for that one! For my first assignment this week I’ve created a story using only sound effects for 4 stars. You had to use only sound effects and no voices, with a minimum of 5 different sound effects. Despite our theme of mythology, I created a … Continue reading A Realistic Horror Story
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Manny’s Trip to the Park

by @KaraDS106

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September 25, 2018

I started out audio week by trying the sound effects story assignment since we had to do it. I decided to incorporate my character into this by making it sound like Manny was taking a trip to the park. As you all probably know by now, I’m not tech savvy. This was incredibly hard for me and …
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Summer in NYC

by @MaddieM02790291

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September 24, 2018

I spent the summer working in NYC, so taking the subway was a common activity of mine. I got used to the hustle and bustle both above and below the streets of NYC, the swiping of MetroCards, and of course the rush of subways coming in. For my first Visual Assignment, Sound Effects Story (3.5 …
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That Sounds Painful

by @justzaying7

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September 23, 2018

Check this out! For audio assignment 70, I utilized Audacity and also freesounds.org to put it all together! I had the idea of creating the soundtrack for someone who is tired coming home, and then opening the closet door to put his bag down at which point everything came falling down from the closet onto him. … Continue reading That Sounds Painful
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A Spooky Sound Effect Story

by @marvelmonkey34

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July 24, 2018

For the next 3.5 stars for my Audio Assignments, I completed the Sound Effects Story assignment. For this assignment we had to make a short story using only sound effects. I used freesound to get all of my sounds and Audacity for all of my audio editing. At my house we have an electronic piano...
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Cooking with Sounds

by @jasmxlon

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July 15, 2018

Featured Image This track was created for my Sound Effects Story assignment. The following sounds were used from FreeSound: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I edited this track with Adobe Audition CC 2018.
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Sound Effects Story

by @ds106_aaliyah

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July 12, 2018

This blog is For the required audio assignment titled Sound Effects Story (four stars). We had to tell a story using nothing but sound effects. That meant There no verbal communication, only sound effects. For my sound effects story, I based it around something […]
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The Drop

by @Michael Dietrich

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June 10, 2018

When thinking about how to tell a story using only sound, I decided the best way to go about doing this was to depict a disaster in process, as we as a society have heard the sounds of disaster so much over the years within pop culture media that it would not be difficult to …
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Vamos a Mexico!

by @LeslieMiyazono

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June 10, 2018

Vacations typically start out stressful. Ensuring necessary items are packed, meeting flight departure schedules, and accounting for unforeseen traffic delays can cause anxiety to even the most prepared and well seasoned traveler. However, arriving at the destination can be a rewarding experience despite all the hassle that previously occurred. Below is an audio story using …
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It all Comes Crashing Down

by @Hollis Pultz

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June 10, 2018

The Sounds Speak for Themselves The final assignment this week was more or less the equivalent to the audio version of a design effect: use audio editing skills to create a ninety-second-or-less audio story without verbal communication. Again, dealing with steam powered Detroit, I chose to continue where I left off with Hollis and Meg’s …
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I’m Coming Home

by @Pringleduckface

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June 9, 2018

For this assignment I had to tell a story using only sound effects. So I decided to tell the story…
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Tales From Space!

by @Darth_Pipe

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June 9, 2018

On this week’s episode of Tales from Space!, our intrepid hero learns that not everything on unexplored worlds is friendly … After listening to some samples, I came up with the idea of a space explorer meeting his fate on an uncharted world. I searched for sounds of a spacecraft landing, steps on a metal …
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Affecting Sound

by @kasc96

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June 7, 2018

For my sound effects assignment, I wanted to create an alien story. The process was actually really difficult for me. I had found some cool sound effects online that I wanted to use but I could not figure out how to use them within Audacity. I wanted to add the effects to the effects that […]
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