Sound design for 'Generation Y'

The creative process

The discovery of MIDI controllers and Logic Pro 9 blew my mind away, creating screenplays and sounds for films was something that was missing in my life. Since my music knowledge is pretty open, genres ranging from classical, chillwave, psytrance, indie, metal, chillstep, rock, electronic, reggae, norwegian/ japanese downtempo, french minimal, german house, post-rock, alternative and many more. Hearing the different types of instruments on Logic Pro 9 reminded me of so many songs but in pieces, and I just had the urge to connect those different similar instruments together. This inspired me greatly and I'm most likely going to take 'Sound' as a skill next year in level 5.

My first sound edit on the MIDI workshop with Neil Webb from Solaris (2002) mute footage:


SOLARIS- The JOURNEY (HD) Sound design from Phoebe Jaspe on Vimeo.


I booked out a MIDI controller and experimented with Logic Pro 9 which I downloaded on my Macbook Pro, these are the sound editing sessions for Generation Y on printscreens:

I chose 'Church Choir' sounds for the cathedral shots along with some light synth sounds over the interviews. I just thought the sound design fitted well, I've got different opinions from different people say it was 'heavy', 'overpowering' and 'scary'. I guess I went a bit too far with the layers, I'll learn over time to reduce the amount of sounds I choose to go on the timeline and have more structure within my work. I think being an artist my whole life and even studying Art A levels diminished that structure of generic codes and conventions. I always try to integrate art into films and my mind automatically opposes conventional ideas. With this being said, I'll do better in experimental films and music videos as a film genre, rather than a documentary in which I need to communicate logically to the audience and I'm unskilled in doing that. Maybe I'm more of a Writer or cinematographer but there's always time to learn.

Treeface: My past artwork, oils on canvas

The ideas implemented within the film was all Louise's idea and I did my best to envision it. Christianity isn't a part of my life and never will be, I'm more of a spiritual/agnostic type of person, and glorifying a group of people with ideas that doesn't appeal to you in the first place was difficult and I took the challenge. I've accepted my faults and will improve as time passes.