At last my final project is done. I am proud of my sound, I believe I have done well on creating a chaos environment. Hopefully people will find it good.

Here it is:

For my sound project I decided to give the image some movement as described in one of my posts (http://waterflu.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/sound-design-create-camera-in-after.html) In order to do this, I decided to create different clips of the same image in After Effects. Every one of them has a different camera movement and is a different part of the image. Unlike some other students, I didn't do it right away from Final Cut. 

After creating every single clip of the project in After Effects, I went to Final Cut Pro and put it all together in there, adding all the sound as well. 

Here is a screenshot of all the different clips I created and used to put all my project together:

Before starting my sound project, I did a lot of pre production. Among that I looked for all my sounds for my project. I own a big collection of effects that I have been saving for years. They are mainly related to explosions, gun shots, smoke, fire and all of that kind of sounds that occur in action movies. I needed more than that, so I got a collection of Warner Bros and BBC sounds from Andrei Allen from our course. I didn't use almost any of them, but they are quite helpful for future projects.

I also got some from youtube, like the news break report, crown scream and hurricane sound. I decided to record some as well, like the breathing, which I needed it to go at the same rhythm as my image cuts.

Here is my main sound, the news break report of a real hurricane:

For my sound project I decided to create a special dissolve for the ending. I wanted to create the illusion that the image was blown up by a hurricane without creating one or doing anything fancy. I thought this one was a nice effect to create and also very simple.

Here is a quick tutorial made by me on how to do this effect in After Effects. Enjoy it!

As part of my project, I investigated about real hurricanes in the past to see the kind of environment that is created in the streets. A lot of rain, wind and chaos. I decided to post a video of a real news break during the Hurricane Irene back in 2011, so people understand a bit more about it. 

Here is the video:

For my sound project I decided to put a bit of imagination on it. Instead of having a dead woman floating in the water, I decided for her to be alive. The picture is going to be set in a modern time in Puerto Rico (where many hurricanes and climate disasters occur.) A big thunderstorm is approaching and there is chaos in the street. Everyone is running and going mad because the hurricane will most probably get them anyway. A lot of gunshots are also heard of people that are killing each other (some rather die quick and with no pain than die in a hurricane.)

The woman in the picture, named Ophelia after the real name of that image by Gregory Crewdson, is floating in the water of her house, just thinking and seeing all her life pass by in front of her, waiting for the hurricane to come and kill her. In the end of the video we can hear how the rain and wind fade out and only the local news report is still on, meaning that the hurricane passed and they are all dead. I also added a Scattered effect at the end of the video to give the illusion that the how was blown up without creating a big FX.

For this unit I got to create a project of 1 to 2 mins long, which must have only sound effects (including voices), but no music at all. The focus is the audio and not the video, which means that we can't change the image we pick. The objective of this is creating a story with only sounds and submerging the audience in an surreal environment without the use of effects, videos or soundtracks.

Here are the options given: