Sound Design

                     Sound Design; Mr. Indifferent 

 For this assignment, my teacher provided us with three different short animated clips, we then had to form a group and choose one of the three clip options randomly. With the clip that we picked, we then had to find non-copyrighted music to score it, focusing on the transitions in mood/tone. For this project, we were not tasked with adding sound effects or dialogue to the clips, but any existing sound effects had to be left unchanged. 

Our group (consisting of myself, Ash, Cristian, and Mila) chose the clip "Mr. Indifferent." It is an animated short that followed a man as he goes through his life "indifferently." He doesn't help those around him or seem to care at all about what they are going through. But after helping an older woman cross the street, he recognizes how helping others can make you feel better about your life. He goes through life, happier now, helping others, volunteering, and contributing to society. But, one day he notices a man that reminds him of his indifferent self. He decided to help him by replicating what happened to him with the older woman, he feigns being blind and grabs the arm of the indifferent man, hoping to spark the same realization that he had experienced previously. Since the tone of this short shifts so harshly from negative to positive. We decided to divide the work so that Mila and I worked finding the positive music and Ash and Cristian found the negative music. Since we still wanted the music choices to blend together, though, we focused primarily on music that had string instruments. This way, even though the songs would sound very different, they could still transition between each other without being too abrupt. Also, Mila and I picked chimes for the moment the older woman grabs the man's hand and when the man does the same to the stranger at the end since this would make these moments more distinct, drawing attention to their significance in the story. Then, we all worked together to combine the music together with the clip to make our finished project.