sounds and music

I looked some more at sound and music to add to the overall feel of the animation. The score can be very important to developing the audience's emotions and understanding of the piece.

Here are some links to sounds that I felt would benefit the animation.

First of all, we have the sounds associated with ice cracking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JirLXTvgTD8

This one would work very nicely for the subtle part of the animation when the character first cracks the ice on the foot closeup.

Here is another one full of ice cracking sounds that could work for the longer cracking 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18069W2TbUI


dramatic music for the run list so far. I am working through these to decide what works the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE4PKjbzZmI

The music that starts from the 4:33 mark works well as I used it in the test animation for week 9's playblast. This worked well and was very dramatic.


Here is the reference for the heavy breathing used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSyIGm7dNb4  by Distorted Room, published 2 Dec 2013 "Heavy breathing Man sound- Man Breath sound effect ver.1"

I had originally attempted to get in touch with some composers who could create music for students. My supervisor gave me links to these people's emails but sadly there was an issue where most of them either didn't reply, didn't have time or resources or didn't know who my supervisor was. So, in this case I had to look further into just referencing music.
One thing that my supervisor suggested was a friend of his who may be able to get involved for composing. If this comes through, I may be able to change the audio to something better.

Meanwhile, the spoken audio that I recorded for the animation was not as good as I had hoped and didn't fit very well. I showed the animation to a friend who suggested the thoughts appear on screen as words in post production. I actually really like this idea and it adds a lot to the scene rather than making it disjointed based on the sudden change from instrumental to dialogue.