Ideas and Process:
I used garage band for the main soundtracks (using my laptop keyboard as a note input) and then used after effects to add a few effects such as fading out. I used royalty free tracks for effects such as rain fall.
For the first image, I drew inspirtion from the resident evil series. In the remake of the second game, there is an emphasis on sound as you can hear the main enemy walk around the police station, with a musical soundtrack only coming up when he hasspotted you or knows where you are (for example if you make too much noise). I wanted to imagine what it would be like if there were a musical track in this section. I tried to keep it minimal and play into the horror theme, with a choir in the background as the police station used to be an art museum, and I thought it would fit the ambience. I used air bell synthesisers, as I thought they added to the horror ambience and sounded like an empty echo, emphasising the isolation theme the game tries to impose. This image is a screenshot from the game while the other two I drew myself.
For the second image I imagined it as a scene after the main dramatic scene in a movie where the main character walks into the rain and contemplates his actions.I used a roya`lty free light rain sound over raindrop synthesisers over synthesised glass bells. It was hard to balance the volume of each of these components as I didn’t want them to drown eachother out.
For the third image, I again went for a horror vibe as the sound design in horror media is one thing I admire a lot. I tried to make it seem like there was an unseen enemy quickly approaching in a haunted hospital corridor. I feel like the synthesisers in the background clash with the synthesised ‘even horizion’ chords I used and I wish I could have made it a bit more gentler. For the next time, I’d love to have some musicla knowledge so I can make better decisions, as I feel like my lack of a musical background held me back in this assignment.