Sound Adaptation created by Alisha Bennett on March 19th 2025
Audio references included in the DESCRIPTION of YouTube post
My audio piece takes inspiration from the Patsy Peacock Telebird newspaper piece from the Crawford Productions artefacts. When looking through the wide range of imagery and news articles used as research for the company, the image of Patsy Peacock really inspired me to create a fun narrative piece using sound as a means of telling a story. From the reading “The Routledge Companion to Adaptation” the authors touch on the ways that audio adaptation engages listeners by requiring them to actively imagine and co-create a narrative through the immersive storytelling experience of sound adaptation (Cutchins, D., Krebs, K., & Voigts, E. 2018). This heavily supports the reasons why I find products of audio books or podcasts to be such a immersive and personal experience as you imagine the sequences in your mind and have an imaginative adaptation from an adapted source. From this idea, I heavily wanted to think of sounds in layers and an ever changing environment to fully immerse a listener to imagine themselves on the road trip across the Nullarbor Plain as described in my sound adaptation. I learnt so much about the importance of the slight changes in sounds and making realistic soundscapes that provide a real life context and experience that we all understand and can immerse ourselves in. For instance, in the editing process, I added the sound of someone having a drink, scratching their heads, a car passing by, ect. These little changes in the sounds can reinvite engagement. I also learnt the importance of adapting scripts when I was voice acting for the script to make it realistic and less like I am reading word for word in a robotic manner.
For what I would like to improve on for future sound adaptations is to be more precise in my planning and not go overboard. When writing the script, I had no practiced or prepared for my work to run over the minute run time and had to adapt and shorten my story which ends abruptly. I would like to be more prepared with more time to overcome this issue in the future.
REFERENCES
Alexftw123, 2021, ‘Car Acceleration Inside Car’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/car-acceleration-inside-car-7087/
Cutchins, D., Krebs, K., & Voigts, E. (Eds.). (2018). The routledge companion to adaptation. Taylor & Francis Group. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/detail.action?docID=5351842
Fabrizio84, 2021, ‘Drinking Water’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/drinking-water-7173/
Folamh3, 2022, ‘Morris head scratch’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/morris-head-scratch-103330/
Freesound Community, 2022, ‘031794_paper movement and sliding’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/031794-paper-movement-and-sliding-63405/
Jrssandoval, 2022, ‘sniff’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/sniff-93949/
LexzachGames, 2022, ‘Pen Click’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/pen-click-99025/
MPTSound, 2021, ‘Tuning radio’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/tuning-radio-7150/
Priesjensen, 2021 ‘Car Driving Ambiene’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/car-driving-ambience-6365/
Ra_gun, 2022, ‘Wind-inside car-091007’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/wind-inside-car-091007-17026/
Surprising_SnapShots, 2025, ‘Guitar Jazz 2’, [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/music/smooth-jazz-guitar-jazz-2-311537/
Zerono1, 2022, ‘Camera Click 01’ [Audio Recording], Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/camera-click-01-36277/
All other audio sources were obtained by Alisha Bennett the creator of ‘Sketch 2 – Sound Adaptation’ on March 19th 2025