The Frog Prince
Once upon a time, in a faraway castle, lived a very spoilt Princess. She got whatever she wanted — ponies, bicycles, even a diamond dress.
One morning, she said,
“I want a golden ball, Daddy.”
“Of course, sugarlump,” said the King.
He called his goldsman.
“Make a golden ball at once!”
Soon, the goldsman brought a shiny golden ball. The Princess grabbed it and rushed outside. But she tripped — and the ball flew into the pond.
“Oh, fiddlesticks,” muttered the Princess.
A voice called, “Needeep, I can help.”
She looked down to see a green frog smiling.
“You can talk?” said the Princess.
“Yep! Want your ball back?” asked the frog.
“Yes!” said the Princess.
“Okay, but you must give me a kiss,” said the frog.
“Ewww! Never!” replied the Princess.
“Suit yourself,” said the frog.
She splashed around but couldn’t find it.
“Need my help now?” asked the frog.
“Fine,” grunted the Princess. “Ball for a kiss.”
“Needeep!” said the frog. He quickly fetched the ball.
“Now for my kiss,” said the frog.
The Princess grabbed the ball and ran.
“Hey!” called the frog.
The King had seen it all.
“Where are you going, young lady?” asked the King.
“Daddy?” said the Princess.
“You made a promise. A promise is a promise,” said the King.
“But Daddy, he’s slimy and yucky,” protested the Princess.
“Doesn’t matter,” said the King.
So the Princess huffed, puffed, and gave the frog a quick, wet kiss.
Suddenly — BANG!
When the smoke cleared, a dazzling Prince stood before her.
“Golly gumdrops!” said the Princess. “I wasn’t expecting that!”
“A wicked witch turned me into a frog,” explained the Prince. “Only a kiss from a true Princess could break the spell.”
“I’m sorry for being horrible,” said the Princess.
“My darling,” said the King, “it doesn’t matter if he’s a Prince, a frog, or a spider — we should treat everyone kindly.”
From that day, the Princess was kind to everyone. She and the Prince became best friends, often walking by the pond.
“Needeep, needeep!” laughed the Prince.
The End.
- frog croak
- splashed around
- frog jumping
- running away
Scene 3: Fullfilling frog's wish
- reluctant sigh sound
- kissing sound
- magical sound
- witch sound
Ending scene
I have done all the recordings of dialogue using my phone in a silent room which I have turned off everything and close the door to ensure I have a quite surrounding to achieve best environment for audio recording.
Fig 2.1 Recordings using iphone
After I have done all the recordings, I ahve imported them all into Adobe Audition and applied noise reduction by capture the noise print first, Every sound track after reducing the noise has a very good quality already as I recorded in a silent room.
Other than that, after the noise reduction, I have also removed away the subtle noise in the sound track where there are extra small waves in the audio. This help to clean up my sound track.
Fig 2.2 Noise reduction progress #1
Fig 2.3 Noise reduction progress #2
On the other hand, I have arranged them accordingly and cut them into the right length. Here is the overview of multitrack sessions with the storytelling audio only.
Fig 2.4 Multitrack overview of soundtrack
After finishing with the qudio recording, I then proceeded to search for sound effects that are suitable to be inserted into the storytelling which can help the qudience to visualize the story more. Here are the lists of sound effects that I have downloaded online.
Fig 2.5 Sound effects dowloaded
Then I have started with the editing of the sound effects as not all the sound effects acquire the effect that I wanted. For example, the ponies sound is too long, therefore I have stretched it to shorter time and lower the tone back.
Fig 2.6 Editing on sound effects #1
Furthermore, sound effects like footsteps also require some light editing, such as applying a pitch shifter and a parametric equalizer. This helps adjust the tone and texture, making the sounds better match the environment and feel more natural within the scene.
Fig 2.7 Editing on sound effects #2
Fig 2.8 Editing on sound effects #3
Besides that, for the princess, frog and narration I actually didn't apply any editing like pitch shifter as I already tone the voice by myself. However for the male character part like king and prince I have applied different level of pitch shifter. For instance, the king has a lower voice which is lower semi-tones in pitch shifter and for prince the tone is slightly higher which representing younger male voice.
Fig 2.9 Pitch shifter for King
Fig 2.10 Pitch shifter for Prince
After receiving first feedback from Mr Razif, he mentioned that the overall dialogues after denoise is a bit too thin, so I can adjust the parametric equalizer at the end to bring the frequency and quality back. Also, I can take note on the "S" sound of the audio, which I will make amend later since this is only the first verision.
Fig 2.11 Increase the thickness of the audio
To reduce the harsh "S" sounds in the dialogue, I used a combination of a parametric equalizer and a de-esser. First, I identified the specific frequency range where the "S" sounds were most prominent using the parametric equalizer. By slightly reducing the gain in that frequency band, I was able to soften the sharpness without affecting the overall clarity of the voice. I then applied a de-esser to further tame any remaining sibilance. Together, these adjustments helped smooth out the audio and make the dialogue sound more natural and pleasant to listen to.
Fig 2.12 Eliminate away the "S" using Parametric equalizer
Fig 2.13 Eliminate away the "S" using De esser
Also, Mr Razif also adviced me to add direction for different character. For example, the princess voice is always on the left, while other characters like the king, prince and frog is always on the right side, and the narrator is always center.
Fig 2.14 Add direction to different audio
After I have done all the audio editing, I start on the story pages, I have downloaded the story pictures online and add some element like the texts and the border and the exported them out by images.
Fig 2.15 Creating story pages
Lastly, I made the compilation of the images and audio tracks in Premiere Pro and add the transition effect which is page flipping.
Fig 2.16 Compilation in Adobe Premiere Pro
Project 3: Audio Storytelling
Fig 2.17 Final Outcome for Project 3: Audio Storytelling
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