Experimental Project 'Sense of Place' - Sound Ideas

Development for our 'Sense of Place'

For our Sound Experimental Project, Alex and I have decided to create a 'sense of place' based on an everyday 9-5 businessman or woman, whose repetitive daily routine is altered dramatically when they  take a different route home one night. We have not decided yet whether the main character is a male or female as we are only required to focus more on the sound part of the project. The first 1.5 minutes will be repetitions of everyday sounds such as:

• A kettle boiling
• A shower/tap running
• Alarm clock/radio

We decided that we wanted to have these sounds gradually speed up each time, to signify to the audience that a change in this monotonous routine is about to occur. This part of our idea is similar to an Experimental Film we viewed in a seminar called 'Salaryman 6'  by Jake Knight (2002). We wanted to create an idea which begins with something that many people can relate to; in this case a repetitive routine in the weekday (e.g school, university, a job). Then we decided we wanted to create a sense of excitement and drama in our 'sense of place', therefore we wrote down ideas for how the disequilibrium could occur:

• Sequences of repetitious sounds speeding up
• One sound bite to cause the change in routine - radio announcement/road closure
• Overhearing an argument; between intimidating characters
• Gun shot/shouting/ambulance sirens