Sound Effects - Sound Art Activity

Because I need to have natural sound in my opening scene to draw the audience into the story more, I created a story with just sound. My opening film will have no dialogue, so this make this particularly useful. 

Forget Me Not - An Audio Story by Savannah Cox and Marley Ackerman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZKF1ZxKq4w

The sounds present within these scenes are birds chirping, a phone ringer, a clock ticking, the sounds of brushing one's teeth (clink of the porcelain cup with the brush, turning on the sink's water, brushing, spitting, tapping the brush), opening a door, typing elevator buttons, an elevator arriving and opening its doors, elevator music, the closing and lowering of the elevator, passing through a circle door with air rushing by, opening an umbrella, rain drops, the bell from an opening shop door, shaking off an umbrella by opening and closing it, putting down said umbrella, opening shop door and bell, dialing 911, dial tone, slamming down a phone, hard rain, bike and cars riding by, police sirens, wind, stepping on crunching leaves, car driving up on wet road, car stopping on grass and its motor running, opening car door, closing handcuffs, car door closing, starting up car engine, riding away in car. 

The plot I conveyed with these sounds was someone getting woken up on a bright and beautiful morning hearing some sad news and time passing in a sad way. The person who has been living in his home/apartment over this time has been doing mundane things (like brushing his teeth) but not getting happier. He decides to go down the elevator and exit the apartment, down a rainy street with an umbrella to a shop. (It is assumed this is a flower shop.) He goes inside, putting the umbrella down and hurriedly taking flowers from the store leaves without paying for it. The store employee then calls 911 and when the man leaves the cops follow. The rain is heavy, but dies down after the man travels down the busy street to a grassy area with a lot of leaves (assumed to be a cemetery or a park). The police drive onto the cemetery grounds and cuff the man and drive him away. 

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Scene: Brushing Teeth and Riding Elevator

1. Brushing Teeth

A. Clink of picking up the tooth brush from the porcelain cup

B. Turning on sink faucet

C. Brushing teeth

D. Turning off sink faucet

E. Spitting

F. Tapping tooth brush on side of sink 

2.  Riding Elevator

A. Opening and closing door of apartment

B. Typing in floor level to wall near elevator entrance and doors opening

C. Elevator music

D. Elevator Moving 

E. Elevator doors  opening and closing

I created many of these sounds (umbrella opening and closing, the tooth brushing scene, the opening and closing of doors) by doing these activities in the exact timing I needed them and by recording with my Rode boom mic. I edited these sounds and those that I used from royalty free sounds on YouTube and Epidemic Sound in Adobe Audition. 

I'm using layers voice recordings of people speaking Russian in different levels and with different intensity/frequency to create a more realistic atmosphere/setting.