BLOCK (SOUND DESIGN 3D SHORT MOVIE PROJECT)

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

For this project, I began with Ableton to craft a rich ambient atmosphere.Then I recorded different sounds to use them as a base in creating cinematic sounds with a midi keyboard. Whenever I walk in the city environment, sounds grab my attention. I curiously listen to and record urban sounds such as of the electric or mechanical machines. For instance, I recorded the sound of an MRI machine so we can hear some electric noise from that. I was also interested in the Geiger counter device making a clicking sound because I watched the Chernobyl miniseries years ago. Piano style of Archive, the British band active in the 2000s, also inspired the first part of the track. I really wanted to create a dark and deep environment for my sound, so I used a lot of sound effects for that.

For the vocal part, I recorded Pardis’s voice and put some reverb and delay on it to transfer the feelings of the women in the video to the audience. For the final part I really interested to work on multichannel and I use Reaper to create multichannel sound.

My main goal was to show the limitations and challenges of an Iranian woman in a surreal environment, and Mehran used the 3D animator technique to create the video. We decided to put some real video from the old days of Iran and women's lives during that time into the 3D video environment to make it more clear to the audience for a better experience.