You Must Нежинский Александр
Task
The goal of this personal project was to make a short audiovisual story which illustrates the feeling of many citizens about the harsh lockdown in Melbourne (Australia) during COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the seriousness of the topic the project should contain a bit of humor.
Ideas and solutions
The goal from sound design and music perspective was to carry the disturbing feeling and chaotic atmosphere that citizens faced during lockdown and make a nexus between sound and visuals. Text-to-speech generator was used as a “voice” of the banners in order to highlight the feeling of something robotic and automated how they were constantly repeated on daily basis. The tone of the voice should transform from “please, stay home” to “you must stay home”. Effects such as delay, pitch shifting, reverb were used on voice to achieve this goal, making the atmosphere more threatening and building more voices “in your head”. Text-to-speech voice was also a source for most of sound effects in the project (except drum related sounds and sub) by processing it with granular synthesis.
