Project: Sound design

I am a huge fan and sucker for good sound design, especially for media like 9 and Dead Space. But as much as I love sound design, I am more relying on music for my film than audio. My two main inspirations is Interstellar and 2001, which uses a lot of music but also has a lot of silent periods in between where no music is present. But I will still be using basic sounds from either copyright free websites or making my own foley sounds. 

For music I am using Ephemera by Scott Buckley. I first found Buckley's music through the animations by Alan Becker on Youtube. Alan Becker is one of my greatest inspirations since he does not use any dialogue nor talking for most of his animations, relying more on the actions done by his characters and the music. Buckley's music stood out to me for its dramatism and inspiration from other composers like Hanz Zimmer, whose works are known for Batman and Interstellar. 

Originally I wanted to use the music Buckley made for Alan Becker's Youtube video "Animation vs. Physics". But looking at the description I found that the music is not owned by Creative Commons, organization that distributes Buckley's music for free. Meaning that I have to get permission from Buckley himself to use the piece, which I heard would take a while. So I searched for Buckley's other music and I decided on his piece Ephemera, which I honestly like better since it has a very mysterious aura and feels like going into an unknown galaxy. 

As for diegetic sounds, I am mainly going to be pulling them from copyright free sound effects websites, like Pixabay and Elevenlabs. 

For foley sounds though is a bit more tricky. The main two sound effects I am worried about is the sound of the rocket going through space from inside the cockpit, and the rattling shaking sound that comes with it. 

But when I thought about it, I realized I could possibly use the sound of my car driving down a highway, and maybe layer it with other similar highway sounds I recorded. And as for the shaking sound from inside the cockpit, I have a restaurant napkin dispenser that my parents don't use anymore. It has a spring and a small metal lid on top, and when I push the lid down and release it quickly, it makes a rattling sound from the impact. I am not sure if these are going to work, but I definitely give it a try and see how it fits into my film.