I am struggling with making a decision about how to edit the final soundtrack for my 'time' motif sting. The sound effect I am using is running footsteps, in order to represent the competitive relationship Murakami has with his running times which he also relates to his philosophy towards the writing of his novels.
time building sound from Emily Chaffer on Vimeo.
Putting in canon's of the sound effect of these footsteps creates a sense of build to the sting and is appropriate to the multiple clocks appearing in this sequence. It also breaks up this beginning and end sequences, making the animation perhaps more engaging. However I really don't like the 'crackly' effect made by all of these footsteps overlapping together, as I feel it makes the animation seem poorly crafted.
Time test sound from Emily Chaffer on Vimeo.
The solitary footsteps, however, I think are more fitting to Murakami conceptually as in it's simplicity and lack of dynamism, thereof, it creates this sense of isolation, which is one of the core things he discusses when talking about his running and writing.
I think in the final sting I would like to retain this sense of isolation by keeping the solitary footsteps as the soundtrack - however, maybe the idea is to decrease and increase the sound of them according to the appearance of the clocks in order to make it more dynamic?
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