Sound Project Ideas
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I was thinking of going with an ironic view that would make the audience jump to a wrong conclusion. Taking place in a house, it would start with TV noises from a ball game or something, then a car would pull up and park in the driveway. The door to the house would open to two girls talking noisily, but they would suddenly drop silent. One would say something like, "Oh god, he did it again" and then continue to explain, "It happen once or twice a week now, I find him lying unconscious on the floor with vomit everywhere, and glassware smashed all around" or something similar. After a little more dramatic talking, you would hear some movement like someone on a carpet, then a dog's yawn, followed by the sound of a dog shaking with its collar jingling. The woman would remark, "Oh look, he's awake now." then continue on to scold the dog, who apparently left the house in ruins, most likely an untrained puppy, instead of an alcoholic husband that I tried to lead the audience to assume. The problem is that alcoholism is a serious problem, and I don't know if I should touch on that issue in such a light, comedic way. Otherwise, I think it would be a really strange experience to be pulled out of something like that and think, "Oh, it's just a dog." It be kinda pleasant in a way to find such innocence at the end, and it would be fun to watch people who haven't heard it before. I'm not sure yet, but I think this is what I'm planning to do.
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I like your ideas and I think that you have a good, solid idea. I think that the content/plot will be interesting to the audience as well. One thing that might be cool to do from the audio standpoint is to have different types of music playing at different times for the different emotions the project is trying to create.
I think the situation lends itself well to a sound project. It could even happen over the phone, two girls having a conversation about it.
Maybe it has a double twist...you lead people to believe it's a husband, but then they think it's the dog, but then actually, the father/husband comes home yelling and screaming and the girl has to hang up or leave because she is really afraid.
You do have to be sensitive about this. And If alcoholism within a family is not something you or someone you know has direct experience with, I would require that you speak to a person or a group that could give you some feedback on your idea, specifically around how it might impact someone who deals with this, and how it might best represent the issue.
Jonah!
I really really dig this idea. It will be fun to play around with dialogue and write the script so that you don't even realize that you had been getting clues until the very end. If you feel unsure about using an alcoholic father as being the misunderstanding then maybe there is another way that you can write an ironic confusing situation without involving a tense subject like abusive parents. My first instinct when I read it though was not that it was a touchy subject. I guess this depends more on how you feel!
Looking forward to talking to you more about this!
Lenora
Jonah!
I really really dig this idea. It will be fun to play around with dialogue and write the script so that you don't even realize that you had been getting clues until the very end. If you feel unsure about using an alcoholic father as being the misunderstanding then maybe there is another way that you can write an ironic confusing situation without involving a tense subject like abusive parents. My first instinct when I read it though was not that it was a touchy subject. I guess this depends more on how you feel!
Looking forward to talking to you more about this!
Lenora
I don't personally feel uncomfortable using alcoholics in my piece, but I haven't really had any experience with any alcoholics in person. I do know that most of my aunts and uncles are alcoholic, but they aren't violent, so I don't really have anything to base this off of except books and movies. Otherwise I'm pretty sure I want to do this, and I've already though of some ideas. If I had a phone call instead of just a conversation, I could even make the left-right balance be way different for each person talking.
i like this idea.
when i first read it it reminded me SO MUCH of this story by salinger we read at the beginning of last year, but then i searched for it and turns out it isn't as similar as i had thought. still though, it's a very good short story and i see some similarities here. especially the tone of it. here it is if you're interested...
http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/connecticut.html
Jonah,
Good call by Mimi on the Salinger short story!
Did you see any similarities?
Do you have any ideas for a script? I like your idea of playing with left and right channels to illustrate conversation! Also there is probably a filter in Soundtrack Pro 1 that makes a voice sound like its coming through a telephone too! So cool!
Anyways step number 2 after coming up with a brilliant idea is to start planning it out in more detail. I find it helpful to make two different lists. One that is all of the dialogue between characters and the other that is all the sound effects. The sound effects list should be in order, coinciding with the dialogue also. Maybe you could draw a line down the middle of a sheet of paper so that you can line up one side with the other. This is a similar method that is used when scripting out movies except that there is also a third column for video!
Looking forward to talking to you more about this concept!
Lenora
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