Sound designers practice tool

            Hey everyone today I would like to talk to you about something that I try to do regularly when I don’t have a sound design to work on or any type of audio work. Its this thing called Aural Stories, basically what it consists of is creating a story that has a beginning middle and end, it can have a plot or not but it must go from point A to point B. The kicker here is once you have your story that you want to create you have to do it only with audio, you can use anything to your advantage, you can use the tools that make up a sound design which include sound effects, dialogue and room tone/environment. This helps you keep your sound designing skills sharp and helps you find ways to move a story along. Sometimes to make it more difficult you can not have any dialogue and just relive on sound effects and environment sounds to guide your story along the way.

This is a aural story which I have created, it begins with a man sitting in his apartment watching tv and you hear the typical sounds you would hear in a room, he then gets up and walks out the door which you can hear the outside noise appear which is rain and then he starts up his car and drives off you can hear the wipers going as well as the radio playing in the car, then his phone begins to ring and he lets it ring and this happens for a while and then he finally stops and lights a cigarette, the feeling I was going for was that he was upset and didn’t want to talk to anyone and just went out for a drive.

This is another one I did which involves a group of men sitting in a bunker outside in the jungle and then a t-rex walks by and one of the guys accidentally knocks a can down which sets off the t-rex which leads into a huge gunfire fight which leaves the t-rex walking off and the guy breathing heavily in relief.

So there you go, have fun creating your own stories!