Sonic Design : Final Project

1/12/2024 -  5/1/2025 (Week 9 - Week 14)

Yang Jiayi / 0369288 /Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Sonic Design

Final Project: Game Audio 

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Introduction

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Final Project: Game Audio

Our final assignment is to complete a game video generated by making sounds by ourselves. We choose a game that we are interested in from the folder of game videos sent by the teacher, and use the sounds in life to record in the recording studio or on the phone to make the sound effects.

Game Audio Selection：https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xAE_rhWXqb0ICm46xZKcdVP1oGo66pws

fig1.1 Game Audio Selection

The teacher provided us with 5 game videos，I chose the first battleblock theatre game

fig1.2 battleblock theatre game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv1ZoHt6poI

I found this game on youtube and watched the release trailer of this game. When making the sound, I also referred to the sound of the original game.

Google Link：https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Vq42GE7WTyWjybxJmi25X0vFU-Y-GX_y

Audio List

Audio Storyboard

Sound Recording

1. The protagonist's action is walking on a wooden board. I found a wooden stick and a snakeskin bag downstairs in my community. I hit the snakeskin bag with the wooden stick, and the sound can be used in this picture.

fig1.3 Wooden sticks hitting plastic sheet

2.The protagonist's action is jumping, and I found that the friction sound of clothes can be used in this picture.

fig1.4 Clothes rubbing sound

3.The protagonist's action is walking on the clouds. I tore the paper into scraps and I found that the sound of friction between scraps is very suitable for this picture.

fig1.5 The sound of paper scraps

4.The protagonist's action is walking on the lawn. I found an unopened plastic film on the wall under the renovation of the community building, and I used the sound of fanning the plastic film with my hands in this picture.

fig1.6 Plastic film

5.I used the same sound for the protagonist's actions of collecting gems and colliding metal balls. I used the sound of wind chimes.

fig1.7 wind chimes

6.For the protagonist's action of opening the exit, I used a glass bottle of mine, and created the sound by hitting the glass bottle with a metal bracelet.

fig1.8 Bracelet glass metal

7.A rainbow-colored banner went up, and I picked up and put down my clothes, making this sound.

fig1.9 The sound of clothes rising and falling

8.For the sound of the protagonist hitting the monster, I used a badminton racket, hitting the chair with the badminton racket.

fig2.0 Hit the chair

9.In the process of the protagonist's movement, I also used a badminton racket, swinging the badminton racket in the air.

fig2.1 Badminton racket waving in the air

10.The sound of the excavator walking was produced by a wooden board I found in the children's entertainment area of ​​the community, and the sound was produced by me walking on it.

fig2.2 walk wood

11.The sound of the excavator's jumping was made by me waving my clothes in the air.

fig2.3 whoosh（cloth）

12.The protagonist's sliding behavior was caused by me scratching the rubber on the elevator wall with the access card in the freight elevator room.

fig2.4 The sound of the card rubbing against the rubber

13.The protagonist's action of throwing the bomb is the same as above, with the sound coming from the clothes waving in the air.

fig2.5 whoosh（cloth）

14.The sound of the bomb exploding came from a pile of pebbles I found downstairs in the community and I walked on them.

fig2.6 The sound of stepping on stones

15.For the sound of breaking stone I used the sound of toilet paper being crumpled.

fig2.7 The sound of crumpling paper

16.The sound of the protagonist stepping on the lava stone was collected by me when I wet the towel with an iron and produced water vapor.

fig2.8 water vapor

17.The sound of the curtains being drawn at the end of the video comes from the sound of me drawing the curtains at home.

fig2.9 Draw the curtains

18.The sound of the iron door closing was collected when the iron door of my house was closed.

fig3.0 Cage pull-down

Overall, I found all the sounds I needed at home and in the neighborhood. The next step is to process the audio.

Processing Audio

fig3.1 

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Final Submission

Youtube Link：https://youtu.be/bbZNwuOvFFA

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Reflection

The sound design course this semester was the one that I was most interested in and gained the most from. As my first opportunity to come into contact with sound design, this course made me deeply realize the importance of sound in creating an atmosphere. During the production process, I consulted many reference materials and gradually realized that the source and presentation of sound in the videos we watch every day often exceeded my imagination. The contact and collision of different objects and the propagation of sound in different media will produce unique sound effects, which gave me a new understanding of the diversity and expressiveness of sound.

Through this course, I learned the basic techniques of foley and put them into practice in the final project of game sound design. I began to pay more attention to the sounds around me, and even when watching movies, I would listen carefully and analyze the sound effects in them, and gradually formed the concept of sound design in my mind.

Although the learning process this semester was relatively hard, I gained a lot of valuable experience. Here, I would like to especially thank Mr. Razif for his patience and positive attitude during the teaching process, his willingness to discuss the problems I encountered with me, and his guidance with a smile. This made me feel very encouraged, and even if sometimes I thought that my homework might not be as good as others, I could find a direction for improvement in communication.

I hope that in the following courses, I can continue to maintain my passion for sound design, and look forward to exploring the charm and possibilities of sound in more projects in the future.