Story
Girl is constantly replaying the memories of her past failed relationship in her head as she struggles to cope with her depression.
Sound
The background music is very simple; to evoke the idea of sadness, reminisce, and pain. It is constant throughout the film to set the overall mood. Then, using the idea of a repetitive sound, which was the “ear ringing” sound, I created the idea of increasing hungover-ness. It got worse at the end of the film because the girl’s heartache gets more painful as she is reminded of perhaps why he left (the fight scene).
In the scene of where she is seen tossing and turning as well, I repeated the audio of the previous fight scene to suggest the idea of the scene (which was right before the bed tossing scene) that’s stuck in her head and that is why she can’t fall asleep. It is a strong memory because it is the significant scene right before he left her, which could suggest to the audience the possible reason of why he chose to leave.
And instead of replaying the entire scene while she tossed and turned, the use of the fight’s conversation symbolises it playing over and over her head. Especially the words “What’s wrong with you?”, which was his last words in the fight scene. I repeated it thrice to make it seem to ring in her head before she gets out of bed.
Personal Reflection
Overall, this project was difficult as I was faced with the challenge of thinking mostly about sound. I really struggled as I do not have a good grip with sounds influencing film. So I started to think about the mood of the story. As this story was quite relatable, I started to think about how I felt during my own personal experiences. So that was the trigger for me.
The use of the “ear ringing” sound came to me quite quickly because that’s how I literally felt and heard during my personal experiences. After I got that down, all the other sounds pretty much fell into place. Overall, it was a really fun thought-provoking assignment that I definitely enjoyed.