Sound Design Task Brain Storming

For our sound design week we have been a set out to create a one minute sequence telling a story completely auditory. After a day of brain storming different ideas, me and ryan came up with a concept of a synopsis of the last hundred years, made up of significant media and political events. 

We had a few other ideas, such as the journey from our houses to college every morning and the experiences we feel and hear every day or maybe the build up to a boxing/martial art fight. The whole process of training and getting ready however after some consideration and playing devils advocate we wanted to do something out of the ordinary and not very predictable. 

Firstly we looked at the music industry and three genres of music we are going to be considering are Hip Hop, Rock and Pop music as these are the most general/popular areas. As the sequence only has to be a minute long I came up with a few artists that represent and change the course of these genres.

For Hip Hop I thought of NWA, Public Enemy, Run DMC and Eminem, each have had huge hits and influences within the genre. For Rock was The Beatles, Nirvana and Elvis. For Pop was Michael Jackson, Brittany Spears and Madonna

Next I thought of a few historical moments in time either political or general that are extremely recognisable from Houston's "We have touch down" on the moon to Churchills "We are at War" and "The War is over" speeches. Then finish on something more recent like the New Year "Welcome to the Millennium" 2000 firework speech.

When constructing the actual sequence we are planning on staging the whole sequence as a radio transmission. As the sequence progresses the quality of the sound will improve to reflect time. We also be able to use this to our advantage as static and general distortion of sound can be used when mixing the individual recordings together. We are also going to be working by the process of elimination. Gathering all the individual parts together and then deciding on what sounds right at the time to whether it will make the final cut, however the main sequence is going to be chronological order of when they actually happened. This will save us a lot of time not having to storyboard the sound to what sounds right.