Ideas & Thoughts

In order to achieve the eery but minimalist sound I am going for, I have a few ideas:

1) A Wind Loop: A really dry, really harsh wind sample will pervade the length of my piece, to give it a spooky feeling. Maybe thunder claps at random intervals.

2) Discordant, Echo-ey Piano Keys: I was thinking of playing out-of-key Piano Keys with a large amount of echo, every time a new part of a letter is revealed in the title of the film in the trailer.

3) A Wind-chime Loop: Another background sound. Would go beautifully with the Wind, as if the wind-chimes are being disturbed by the wind. They’d create a false sense of cheerfulness that would stand in contrast to the bleak imagery on screen.

4) A Cracking Sound Sample: This will show up very subtly at the beginning, maybe just a light, 'in the background' kind of sound emanating from either the left or right. Eventually, it will come to dominate the trailer before building to a grand crescendo when the egg finally cracks.

5) Various Atmospheric Sounds: One of the main ideas I had for this was finding a sample of someone screaming, and processing it to such an extent that it is just barely recognisable as a scream. This, among with a variety of other, atmospheric, reverb heavy sounds, will be the hardest part to get right, and will be what adds much more depth, and a genuinely spooky feeling to my sound design.