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.

What to do

• Pick a short (30s - 60s60+s) sequence of a movie of your choice (preferably without dialogue).
• Think of two different ways you can change or 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
  • …
• Take your scene into any DAW (digital audio workstation) or NLE (nonlinear editing software) and create two different soundtracks from scratch. Don’t use any of the original sounds.

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