Great Sound Design Inspiration!

After my teacher recommend I watched August Rush last spring semester, it took me a whole summer to finally get to it.  I finally watched it a couple months ago, and I wanted to post a few clips that I thought had some really cool sound design!!  I really like how the scenes turn natural sounds of the city or landscapes into a kind of organized cacophony, integrated slyly with orchestral music in the back.  Enjoy!

I thought this one was really cool in terms of their interaction with each other, which I feel gives a similar vibe to my film.

Ink Tests!

Here are some ink snapshots I took while filming my ink tests! the movs won't load so ill try again next time.

MAJOR UPDATE!

Hello there! So i realized that I totally have forgotten to post on my blog lately, even though I thought I did!

The biggest thing that has happened is change of story!! So what happened was that I had a nice simple story I pitched in the spring.  Then for some reason, I decided that it was too simple and changed up the story in the summer to something a tad more complicated.  I did like the story, but after getting some feedback, I realized that the story I had before was way better and just much more doable.  Therefore in early November, I made the tough but much needed decision to switch back to my old story, which I'm so glad I did!

The old story is this: a young homeless boy sitting in the street loses his one coin he has received.  Upon trying to find it, he wonders into the streets and discovers an alluring and mysterious trail of music that leads him to a new surprise.

Here's my latest animatic!!

My boy is coming to life!

Ink Tests

Here are some tests I did today for my backgrounds with the ink flowing in.  Being the after effects noob I am, I'm kind of happy I managed to pull this off :p The first four ink spreads are taken from the awesome video posted below.  I wanted to try out different kind of ways ink can spread and see what kind of look/ effect it gives.

The last video uses a ink dropped in water video- a little too liquidy for my taste, but what I DO like is how the ink seems to bleed in more color instead of the background emerging from blackness, which is what the first 4 tests do.  Not sure how i did that, but I was just playing around and it happened.

I'm planning on filming my own ink on water videos so I can better control how I want the ink to work.  I love the look of ink spreading on paper more than ink in water, so I decided I'm going to go with that look. 

 

 

 

 

SOO COOL!! Ink water art

I WANT THAT EFFECT ON MY FILM

More style frames!

Ext of orphanage? might make it more stylized and blurry.

Below, I tried to simulate an impression of how it would look like with the watercolor seeping in.

Original watercolor!