The concept for this project is that I want to portray a dream where I woke up early for school and did all my morning routine, and then ended up waking up from my sleep realizing that it’s all a dream. Throughout the audio, I tried to make it sound like it’s a dream and I was hoping to create this cozy feeling to it, because I’m in bed sleeping so the whole audio should sound cozy and peaceful. I also wanted to make the sound like it’s far away because since it’s not in reality, the sound shouldn’t sound like it’s right next to our ear.
The first sound is my alarm going off. At the same time, there are birds chirping. While the birds are still chirping, I am getting out of bed and making my bed. Then, you could hear the water running because I’m brushing my teeth. After that, I brushed my teeth and walked downstairs, poured myself some water and made breakfast. Finally, I wore my jackets and walked out the door to the subway. The final sound is in the subway where the announcer is saying something. When the announcer goes off is when my alarm clock went off and I woke up from my dream.
Originally, I didn’t plan to make it a dream. I was trying to recreate the sound of my morning routine, however I ended up feeling like the audio sounds a bit plain so I decided to add that it’s a dream. To make it sound like a dream, I used a lot of mastering-warm concert hall on the whole audio. I find that this effect creates a bit of surrealism to the sound. It sounded like the sound is a bit further away from us so it would create this dreamy sound. When I was working towards the end, I thought that just adding the mastering effect isn’t enough. I want to create an audio where even if I don’t explain my work, people would still get that it’s a dream. I decided to create the echo effect at the end where the alarm is going off and I’m slowly waking up from my dream.
If I had more time, I hope to add more creative sounds to it. During the critique process from others, I was told that the sound doesn’t have to be very realistic. There could be more creative sounds fading together to make the audio sound more fun. There’s also too much space between each sound so maybe I could do more fading between the change of sound.