As a sound designer a huge concern while working on any project is the story that is aiming to be told. What emotional tones are trying to be portrayed and what steps do we need to take in order to display them? Listening to bad quality sound is difficult no matter how great the visuals are and should be treated just as importantly. In my sound design class I recreated the sound design for a short animation film by the title of Ink. The first thoughts in my head were what emotions am I trying to leave the audience and listeners feeling? With it being only a two-minute clip I knew there wasn’t much time to tell a full story, but rather I could tell a brief one that everyone can relate to through lyrics. Since we are all in this world together I narrate a short story about traveling this road through life and having to fight for what we want. I do this through rapping a small verse I wrote and recorded for this project over my composition and sound design for the visual representation. I wanted my viewers to feel motivated to go out and fulfill their dreams and live life to the fullest, but also to keep in mind not to take life as a joke or for granted. I chose this because the movie goes through many different transitions and transformations of the ink into animals, people, different life forms and styles etc. I knew that the compositional piece was going to be the driving factor for this project, so I made sure to create a beat giving off a serious tone or vibe, yet still calm or subtle in some environments. Then I recorded various foley sounds to accompany the visuals and lead them to make them seem and fell all the more real. For this particular project I used Cubase 6 as my DAW.
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