Sound Story - Lucid Dream
A brief description of the sound story:
The story starts with a dream and ends with awakening from a dream. Hearing the alarm clock, the protagonist subconsciously thought that she was awake, and started a series of activities, including getting up to wash and go out to a class, and then finally another alarm clock went up, and then the protagonist woke up in reality and found that everything before was dreaming.
And the timeline of the sound story:
Dream - Alarm went on 1st time - Lucid dream - Alarm went on 2nd time - Wake up (Real life)
The idea of our sound story came from both of our common experiences after waking up by alarms then falling back to sleep and dreaming of a series of actions that we were supposed to do waking up in real life. The sound story is based on a first-person angle to depict the feeling and experience in between dream and reality.
During the process, we were thinking about creating some contrast so the audience could hear a difference between the sound in dream and reality. Besides the radar sound of the alarm to separate the dream and real life, we gave the sound more ethereal, fantasy, chaotic, and experimental sound quality to shape the deep dream world. In the lucid dream, the second one, the sound will gradually become realistic in the second dream, like the sound that would be heard in the real world. But the sound will still be more abstract, distant, and hollow. Compared to sound in real life, which is more solid and with more continuity.
Fortunately, we recorded a piano sound. So we use this song as a symbol of dreams. In the dream, we used sound effects such as reverberation, delay, and pitch shift to make this song more dreamy. We also dragged the recorded chair, waiting for the sound to be blurred and abstracted as the melody of the dream. In the second lucid dream, our protagonist thought he was awake and heard the same piano melody in the dream, but the sound was clearer than in the first dream. The sound in the second dream basically has no effect and is relatively more real. But at the end, when the professor was in class, it was when the dream was about to wake up. We distorted the voice of the professor and mixed the effects of ringtones and various sounds.