From the course: Learning Sound Design for Video Production

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Your project: A soundscape from scratch

Your project: A soundscape from scratch

Let's talk about our project. Here's where the fun part begins. We're going to create something that exists beyond what the camera can capture. Here's your mission. Create a single-shot video lasting between 15 to 30 seconds. You can shoot with a camera or with your phone. The choice is yours. You will strip away all the captured audio and build an entirely new soundscape from scratch. You'll be constructing something that maybe was there or maybe there wasn't, but it should feel absolutely real to your viewers. I encourage you to incorporate audio elements that perhaps were not part of the original audio. Allow yourself to be surprised by adding things that somehow fit in there. You'll better understand the power of audio by discovering how far you can push reality while keeping it believable through sound. Remember that as we saw in our previous lesson, there's so many possibilities by using audio beyond what can be seen inside the frame. For the audio elements, you will need an…

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