For my piece, I selected a scene from Peter Weir’s The
Truman Show (1998) and redesigned the audio. Keeping with the cinematic nature
of the piece, my goal was to update it, preserving the dramatic sound effects,
but reconfiguring the bed and tone of the scene. In the original selection, the
music takes almost a religious tone with choir like vocals accompanying the
scene. Though my version of the scene
remains hopeful at times, I wanted to utilize a stronger, repetitive beat to
relay the character’s frustration.
All the sound effects in my piece were found on free sound,
including the water, waves, sails, footsteps and creak in the ship. For the
waves, sails and water, I added reverb to increase the size of the room (the
movie takes place in a small town-size dome). I also used filters, loops and
adjusted the attack and decay for various portions. The bed of the piece comes
from a midi file “Where is My Mind.” For my project, I worked in and out of
Ableton, Audacity, Final Cut Pro and Noatikl.
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