For this project, you will work with your production group to record and edit a 1-2 minute sound piece one one of the following themes:

• Journey
• Nursery Story / Fable
• Ghost Story 

Your story must include a beginning (introduction to the soundscape), middle (conflict) and end (resolution).

Almost all of the audio needs to be original, and recorded specifically for the project with the Tascam and an external microphone. You may include the following elements:

1. Sound Effects from the sound library (located on the media lab server). No more than 20% of your sound. Use these sparingly to enhance your soundscape with sounds that would be difficult for you to record with the equipment available to you. 
2. Background Music cannot be more than 20% of your total sound. Use it to enhance a moment but do not rely on music throughout your project. 

Additional Notes:

• How can you create a fully fleshed out story through sound, without using images or dialog?  Brainstorm, outline, and plan your project in advance #reate a detailed list of possible sounds, describing how + where they will be placed within the project
• Your edited piece should include multiple tracks of audio, with substantial use of layered sound (more than one track playing at once).  The finished piece should utilize ambient sound, environmentally evocative sounds, and sound effects recorded specifically for the assignment #ombined to give a strong and detailed impression of both the narrative of the journey, and the environment(s) in which it takes place.
• If you use music, it must be mostly diegetic (e.g.: someone tuning a radio or humming a song).  Non-diegetic music may be used sparingly for this project. Do not rely on it. There should be no dialog (although vocal ¯ises!re ok )e: laughing, grunting, sighing, gasping, etc).
• When conceptualizing your project, consider the following:   
  • What is the geographical scope of the journey?  (Might you, for example, suggest environments far removed from campus?)  
  • What is the temporal scope of the journey?  (For instance, is this a journey that takes place over 2 minutes, a day, a year, or 3 seconds? How can you represent the passage of time accordingly?)  
  • What point(s) of view will your project express?  Will your recordings communicate a ©rst person0oint of view, a (ird person(or íniscient`perspective, or a kind of voice that does not really qualify as either of these? 
  • What do you want listeners to feel and understand when hearing your project?  How will your choices in sound construction achieve this?
• Upload your completed audio project to Canvas as a .wav file.
• Further details will be discussed in section.