Friday, 11 May 2018

Sound effects part 2

In the session today I decided to look for some sound effects for the game, I had to find 3 different animals for each individual animal and the crackling sound a vinyl makes when you start it up.

I went and searched for different sites I first went onto the BBC sound effect archive, although it had good royalty free sound effects when you hit the download button it stopped working or took a really long to load the page. I then went and looked for more and found the website called Freesound which as the title might imply gives free sounds, you can decide to donate to the creators to support them but you don't have to.
The website is simple to use you just have to type what you need and they most likely will have it, some will be joke ones or have a similar key word but nothing to do with what you want, but the majority of the time you will find what you need.
Vinyl crackling sound.

Bear sounds

Wolf Sounds

Bird of Prey Sounds
https://freesound.org/people/kristinhamby/sounds/381200/

I then edited them down. I went onto Adobe Audition and selected the section that I wanted and then right clicked it which allowed me to save the selection.
I then shortened the animals and added fade in and fade outs onto sections so it would be smother when I cut it down and not have an abrupt ending .
I took a small section from the beginning out because it was just noise that shouldn't of been there and then applied the fade out to the wolf howl.
I  made multiple audio files that where edited and shortened. Some having the amplitude turned down so it isn't as loud.

Thursday, 3 May 2018

sound effects

When it comes to sound effects we have some to add to the atmosphere. We recorded some foot steps on some creaky stairs, we walked on them just to get some walking sounds, we recorded 2-3 different sound files some where just plain old foot steps the other was foot steps that where creaky this was so that when walking about the cabin it was more immersive and realistic. we then edited them and combined some together.

     We also made a make shift eating sound for when you interact with food and berry bushes. this is a place holder sound until we make a better one but this was made by scrunching up some paper