2018/06/21

房子 – 雨

关于
About

该项目是奥理工大一影视艺术课程工程。《雨》也是我第一次接触声音设计。通过有节律，节奏的声音片段讲述一个故事对我来说是非常新颖的。我知道这方面的应用已经在影视作品，广告作品里已经被广泛运用。但是绝大部分都是作为视觉元素的辅助以达到吸引观众，人群的作用。而本项目要求我们仅通过声音来传达一个完整的故事。对于我来说也是颇具挑战的。

PurpleChilli · The House – Rainy day

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意向
Rationale

The sound piece is an exploration of fears, things such as chill, darkness, and loneliness. I took the idea from the previous design, the core element, the house and also the idea of surrounding sound. In the second part of the project, I tried to develop a story based on the initial design. I took some of the feedback from classmates and concluded that the main issue with the original design was the story. The piece lacks of story, which makes it a bit dull and hard to keep the audience interested, especially considering it was a five-minute project.

In the second part of the project, I tried to picture a rainy scene with a house in the middle of the woods, a thunderstorm is approaching and the time is about night. There was a person who was invited to his friends’ party in their house. He found the house and knocked on the door. No one answered, but the lights were on. He tried to turn the nock on the door and found out it wasn’t locked. He enters the house, and the door closes automatically at the same time the music box starts to play in the background from the living room area. He thought they were putting a joke on him, so he didn’t care. Suddenly, a lightning stroke and all the electricity was off. He panicked, trying to look for his friends. He heard a child laughing and running behind him, but he couldn’t see a thing. He felt threatened and ran toward the door trying to get it open but only found out the door was locked. When he tries to unlock the door, someone/something knocks him out and drags him away.

The reason I chose rainy days is that most of the horror movies I found contain rainy scenes. Not only that, I also noticed that some elements are much easier to create fear, with keywords such as wood, dark, cold, house, rain, and wet. Movies like “Blair witch project 1999”, “it 2017”, “The Cabin in the Woods 2012”, “Friday the 13th 1980” used these keywords throughout the whole movie. Thus, I wonder if I can create a similar feeling with these keywords. Another element that contributed to creating a horror atmosphere is the soundtrack. Horror movies often contain a series of unsettling soundtracks. “River Chase” from “it 2017” is a well around example. The sound piece demonstrated the sound in a normal tone range, but as the movie progressed the sound was also progressively getting higher, which could create tension to the audience.

In the final design, I reuse some of the sounds from the previous project and use it as a starting point. I’ll keep trying to edit a surround sound to create a virtual stage. I’ve also used some of the sounds from freesound.org to add some personality to my story. The sounds I added are recorded by Zoom recorder in 44.1 Hz, 16bit and .wav format, all the audio is recorded in mono mode and processed through Adobe Audition for noise reduction and stereo recreation. With the finished sound pieces, I import them into Pro Tools and begin the editing process.

The overall sound piece I am mostly satisfied. The thing that might need to change is better management skills. I often find myself doing the recording way before the story finalisation, thus generated a lot of unnecessary audio files which make it harder to manage.

参考
Reference

24003__erdie__mega-thunder.wav https://freesound.org/people/Erdie/sounds/24003/
332116__rambler52__rain-storm.wav https://freesound.org/people/rambler52/sounds/332116/
29675__artifact__lightning-strike.wav https://freesound.org/people/artifact/sounds/29675/