DTW Sound Cue synopsis - none of this is set in stone, and this is basically a preliminary idea for everything.
/ThewallofOliver'slife/
1 A murkiness, distorted low rumbles like underwater, rising fast to the surface then breaking it – the wall is air and sun and clarity and presence. Maybe wind and air for a moment until it is reeled indoors – more confined, quiet, stifled?
/Quietgreenedgesofyourworld/
2 Arguing, weaving voices competing from a certain direction on stage. They might become mission control, or space radio tattic, chatter.
/Oliverisveryyoung/
3 Arguing, louder, less like radio static more real until [OM: You go in that room...]
4 Crash, door slam, sobbing into radio static, the sea
5 Transition, moments of echo
/Ohheygoodmorning/
6 The space of YL's house
7 [YL: I'll show you.] Shower becomes the sea! Like going underwater, then back up
/You'vemademylifelikewater/
8 Okay this is the real beach. Dynamic elements, air all around, moving. Water over there, moving up then down. We'll be here a lot so cue should be long, loops undetectable, random forces of nature at play.
9 YL: Listen to this / sound like underwater, like being in love but its music, barely.
The beach blows away into YL's room
/TheGolem/
10 YL's room
/MotherLaundry/
11 Photobooth (what does this sound like/how do we get it?) becomes the sea
/Likeyourgolem/
12 “The beach is familiar but subtly different”
this beach blows away into the boys' rooms
/Oliverandhismother. Photostrip./
13 There are two rooms, the boys are becoming older. This could be the sound of the rooms but more like a wind tunnel or a draft blowing through, something you might notice but wouldn't wonder about. Alternative: no sound
/Everythingwaselectric/
14 YL's room, early morning – the world fresh, quiet, waking up.
15 YL's room, late morning, the world is awake now, maybe a bird chirps or a breeze blows. After a moment this might turn into Mars, and a moment after that it might become very quiet.
Transition to...
/YL is drawing. Oliver's sleeping/
16 Oliver's room. YL's room. Silence when OM turns off the lamp. Transition into...
/aboat/
17 The Beach
18 After [YL: You’rrrrre a column of fire and I am the seeeea. ] a rumble of thunder in the distance
19 During the fantasy, a storm, a different place than where they are. It ends with a long roll of deep thunder that might be a wave crashing down on everything. Then we're back on the beach.
20 As they push the imaginary boat out to sea, everything gets more quiet for a while.
21 The rain starts, then shifts to being heard from Oliver's room
/Oliver,his mother, and the golem/wedontactlikepeople(1)/
22 Oliver's room “Claustrophobic space”, rain
23 Rain turns into sea
/Being a golem is easy.../
24 The beach is familiar but subtly different [it might be brighter, or stormier]
25 The beach blows into the boys' rooms
/YL by himself. Pillage/
26 The boys' rooms
/IsOllieHere/
27 Oliver's house, not his room.
28 The beach, quietly, in a certain space
29 Oliver's room
Maybe a slight transition into next scene, just time passing
/Wedon'tactlikepeople(2)/
30 Oliver's room
transition into beach
/Theoceanfilledupwithsomethingelse/
31 “This scene should have a lot of space... The beach is familiar but subtly different.”
32 The ocean fills with something different, this is a transition.
/Imagine a cross section of your world/
33 A different Oliver's room, a nosier room, each sound that makes it his room in his mothers house is bigger, worse.
34 The shower, which contains echoes, which changes from a shower to a submersion, down into the depths of where we are until it stops, suddenly, leaving only a drip, drip.
35 A different Oliver's room, a quiet, bright place. A slow, cleansing tide approaches.
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I found your synopsis very interesting. One question I have (and this is really for everyone) is what is the relationship between the sky and sea? I see a lot of great things about wind and waves but is the heaviness and lightness of the sky also reflected in the sound? In some ancient mythology the sky and the sea are seen as connected not only on a natural level, but on a spiritual level as well. A duality of lovers. An Ancient Hindu saying points to the sky as the dream space of the sea. What is in this dream space? YL and Oliver spend a lot of time staring at the dream space.
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Al, that's an interesting idea, and I'll have to think about it some more, I'll see if I can't find a way to capture some sky in the abstract.
ReplyDeleteAl. That's really cool. I remember when you brought up that quote about the sky. I think this could be really great for Janae to thing about especially in terms of taking advantage of the cyc.
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