Animated Narratives week 12

Week 12: Sound

There was nothing new to learn in class this week, so I focused on an area I had been consciously ignoring before - the use of sound. The reason for this neglect is actually quite simple: I am producing a suspenseful story, and any sound would, in my opinion, ruin the ambience, so I have not spent any time on this aspect of the study. Now that it's the last week and the story is basically finished, I decided to try my hand at sound use, hoping to make a breakthrough in my story.

Since there are very few descriptions of ambient sound changes in mystery novels, but after a long search I still found some use of sound descriptions such as in "The Door Between", "The bridge creaked and rattled, and from its trembling side, Eva knew there was a man coming from behind her. She felt herself gradually warming up, becoming warmer than at normal dusk." Here the heroine's fondness for the visitor is set off by the description of the voice, which in the big picture also counters the tragedy that follows.

I then performed a related writing exercise for my own manuscript: "The reason why it was determined that there was no such thing as an outsider sneaking in to kill and then leaving is that to get into the room at the top of the loft one must swim in parallel to the horizontal or bring someone in through a propulsion device. Either one is bound to make a sound because the speed of sound transmission in the water will be faster. If there is a sound will certainly be responsible for the security of the human patrol team on the water and the Sea Dragon Pavilion sonar device to monitor. According to the investigation report, because the next day to hold a consultation meeting so the day before has dispersed the nearby siren people. The day of the crime in addition to the harrowing scream and no one captured any sound, everything is as dead half silent." I hope that through this type of environmental description allows the reader to feel the existence of the chamber, and the case seems to be moving toward a known outcome, and to set the stage for the reversal that follows.

After this week's research I realized that it is not impossible to add sound descriptions to a suspense story, and that with the right kind of sound descriptions you can set up some specific settings and can also side-step the outcome. Setting descriptions are more of a means than an end, and the descriptions of scenes (including sound) are more of a foil (or counterpoint) and pave the way for future stories, so you can try to blend as many elements as possible with each other.