Sound is an integral part of any film. Some even say that the quality of a moving picture is 50% sound. Iconic sound design as seen in Jurassic Park or Star Wars have created their own worlds and defined a genre. Sound creates reality, makes things believable but also influence the emotion of a scene enormously. That's what we want to focus on in this exercise.

Since last year was requested to get more time to work alone - this time you are free to decide if you want to work on your own or in teams of two. 

What to do

• Pick one of the three film scenes that we have provided for you (links down below)
• Define for yourself what the content of the scene is.
• Think of how you want to set the mood of the scene through sound. This can be any of the following or something else:
  • happy / uplifting
  • romantic
  • danger / suspense
  • sad / dark
  • funny / comedic
  • …
• What kind of "foley onscreen-sounds" do you need? 
• What is happening off-screen?
• Plan what you need and put your sounds on a graph like the example below. Do this with both moods.
• Take your scene into any DAW (digital audio workstation) or NLE (nonlinear editing software) and create a soundtracks from scratch.

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Link to Spitfire Audio Free VSTs: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/