Sense of Place: Audio Project Ideas Development

Art by Leif Podhajsky,
Splash
Mixed Media, 2012

Creating a 3 minute soundscape & ideas:

I want to show a binary opposition of sounds and character change with this experimental audio and moving image.


Locations: Office/ City streets/ Forest
Office and City street Sounds: office keyboard, footsteps, cars going past, staples, coffee sipping , random chatterings, gun shots
Forest sounds: Leaves rustling, birds singing, man running, heavy breathing,

An iphone application 'ThumbJam' would be used for spot effects and sound effects, the sounds are free to use and not copy righted at all.

Narrative, sound and monologue:

A monologue/ narrator will be edited over these atmospheric sounds, he will be talking about how life is so mundane and it is on repeat. Things are the same, everything he wears is the same (suit and tie, sound: rummaging of hangers), a routined life, crossing the same street, seeing the same people, the same coffee mug, the same pen, the same computer screen, the same after shave, the mundanity is slowly making him insane
It's kind of inspired by Fight Club and that short video we watched in class last week.

The audio is supposed to show the contrast between office life and nature.

The protagonist keeps complaining and struggles with mundane corporate life, he wishes to be the opposite of what he is, it is an experimental audio that creates enigma for the audience.

He runs to the forest, wishes that he wasn't in a suit and didn't have perfect bouffant hair, everything goes dark, He ends up wearing a pink wig, a dress, heels, a banana next to him lying on the forest grounds with stigmata on his hands and him crying/ bleeding blood.

Then the monologue explains how he wants the opposite of everything. It ends with the camera zooming out from his face slowly and with the words: Consume me.
Sad and sombre atmosphere.