William Wong

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William Wong 1342South Island School School No.: 003258Student No.:003258-158

Beauty of the BeastProduction PortfolioStudent Name: William WongCandidate Number: 003258-158School Name: South Island SchoolSchool Number: 003258


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William Wong - Sound DesignerSouth Island SchoolFilm Rationale

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Ill. EVNS' APRTl,lENl. NIGBT.EVNS rnd l.lRy enher he a!1,1, rpartment, Mny $ovostowrda tho window. EvANs Iocks the door, Doublo, andLrj-plo, chccks iL tighL. Begin romance!re, Sequencething for you

As the film is narrative and audio.a ./^from the frldwhile adding stflnd drconflict. PanrLing was used to create an unsetSCm e trailer maintains ambiguousre polysemic nature of the finalproductoapd reflects the essence of the film through the disjointed and unclear narrative ofthefff

School No.: 003258Student No.:003258-158

"Beauty of t" Beast" is a film thatpsychologicaltffiLer gg:mes. It covers the san accidentin onedff, and a crime in thedifferent stories on one event, it was essentithat the audience can understand it, due tofLlryt6 the present the segregation betwee

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EVNS movee toHtrds l4Ry. Sho preaees horslf againat ther),1 EVANSI think you need to orn your ko6p, ,/ ./EvNs forcefully caresses IIARY'a chock. AudiTTelouIl!!. gED.ROql|. C&AR ELUE SrIES.R ia lying on hc Bcd. EVNS is sLLnSye edge.EvNs Maintanh(g(ambienceMorning ' r'ty'gow aro you doj,ng?

}TARYI'r doing just great.I've hd ho tinc of ny lifo.I yas reacued by a rerl lifc vhitoknight. what happenod to 8yclothea ?

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process. Storyboards and initialscripts were writter whilstwatching films contributed ideasand inspiration to our cyy-Movies such as MeWprovided inspiration for me t9-create an audio environrrrlthatrefl e cts p olysemic r eadtngl4fuLemusic by Akira Yamy>frnspiredme to write compositions that tella story, if not reinforcgt\fexisting storV in\{ffi,.

TIRYIhank you for savingI ws very horoicto do.

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William Wong - Sound DesignerSouth Island School School No.: 003258Student No. :003258-158

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The crew decided to work within the genreof psycholdifferent pwithin the enceperceptiog,{rLd deliver the narrative in avoid obviousllenge Propp'scharacter;was tonurr4{",but in

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William Wong - Sound DesignerSouth Island SchoolPost-oroductionSchool No.: 003258Student No. :003258-158

All the sound was composed and recorded by

a clearer direction. It was also an aid that guided theaudience through the story line.. as there are manydifferent readings of the ffibased on the

r/tar qyx{ana arry'I used clean soundbecause I wanted tocreate an acousticfeel to the soyg,d,passed the sougdthrough a dler, sothat there would notbe any noise, andthe guitar recordingscould be as clear asthree guitar lines. The first line was a light

e second line was a lower toned brokenchord. 'I'his was added to not justProv g,but tactrethen the responding voice of Evans,as it was mxe eloquent anddecoratg{ This was done becausethe story is more focused on Evans,

fthis romance song supported the


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William Wong - Sound DesignerSouth Island School ,/narrative of the frISlMary thanks Evans for helpingher to "earr'Lher keep". This is reflected by the m rtch Cxc( //e"communicates with the romantic undertones reflecte /" lr,,,The second musical composition summari ses our;ffiBeing played at the end of tQthe film, it reflects the sad nature of the narragr. The piece was in a minor key, as this isthe norm for mglancholicmusical pie6, demonstratedby the musical compositions ofcontempor4:y artists Nobg>-

rJ emaqynd Aki ra Yafioka, Gd,recorded. I recordedf\>pecethrou gh G ar agegl{ be causethe program wasguitable for

, music ,"rord.{The piecet begins with single nolxplayedfrom a broken c. Recurringbroken chords ensue, in a lowtone, folloye by a high tonedpiano fife. This was then exported as ansoft opening, because it reflects the soft openias well. ensuing chords represent themoyyfrhere was a small discord in the p

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have their own schedules to follow, so wedecided to film at locations that tybothflexible for us and for the actq For Evans,we recordedpfr actor Jai's voice at hisapartman{surprisingly his apartment wasrelatively quiet, so recording his voice was

e agland, s{oth. Re c or din g Re d din g' s line swas more difficul becarrcgzur actor Reubenwas on a tighter schedg6, so we had to usean envirolprerrt not ideal for soundrecordiw{ Problems associated with therecording werepvercome by using-noise red.y6n to clear out tl\9,zz.itch changes andwere notof noisereduction involves printing a S4fnentof noise from the sound clfand, thenby using the noise template, I canremove the noise thgffe sarnewavelength as rtzt.

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William Wong - Sound Designer School No.: 003258South Island School Studen!No.:003258-158for sound recording, it requires air particles for it to be able to record sgw and stncebanging on tables does not produce much air particles, it could notord. Howeve, thebuilt-in microphone is highly sensitive, and was also of high quality, so all the foley.sounds *"r" i".orded using the Macbook Pro's ^;"rot{i,ze also kept-t7of of silence and randambient souyffo complement with the voisound, as it could potentially ruin the mood andestablished, extra sounds cause the specific s sare a)slsupposed to reflect a criminal interrc,nd,unu, yet strange nature of an investigationV

- ,"',One issue we had was the fact that we lacked a pop filter for our rrricropdnrl.'"s%ounds, so that it doesn't record thehave reduced some of the hissing issues wenot a major issue, as the quality of ta preferred item rather than a yity.

though the visual aspect was generally well received, meaning vocg.rgrswere requiredto guide our audience and some music compositions to settle tzf2.There was also the i to change the narrative directio t{ot tn"-."-film. Aftelghowing ea, where the film consisted of originl andrevisy).fersions on ld not understand the narrative of the fi1m,


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William Wong - Sound DesignerSouth Island SchoolFilmAnalvsis

-The visual aspects of the film contributed to the ambiguous nature .ttn*mthe shots of Evans walking in the streets, there are instances where reflections of him

appeil in the environmg*throuthe building cornpry,lfl"s createEvans tries to recollect. The idea of recollethe middle of the film, so this is another podifferent perspective of the story, or the gu reinJorced the validity ohe alternatethe polysemi rnE@the movie by itself,rative guide for the audience, it also created annnecting and unsettling the audience from the/4//,/\ a('hr/

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