The creative minds behind the web's existential comedy series "Coma, Period." talk about their craft and the challenges of designing the sounds that represent those heard inside a character's subconscious mind.
Rick Castaneda (Writer/Director) says of the project: When I first came up with the idea to create a web series that took place entirely inside someone's head, the value was immediate -- I could do anything I wanted. Here was my main character, Dan Humford, who had a car crash and ended up in a coma. We've given him the white space of his subconscious, and are letting him interact with all of his deepest desires, the nightmares, and random thoughts that he's had. If we wanted to, we could bring in a T-Rex, and have them talk about their feelings. That's how wide open the show is.
I brought in Lawrence to sound design really early -- actually at the script level -- because I knew that with such a blank white space, with nothing to look at, sound would be more important than ever. Infinite possibility was the first problem we had in sound designing the series -- we could really make the inside of Dan's head sound like anything we wanted to. This wasn't a park -- which you've been to, and you know how it sounds. This is the inside of a person's head. What does that sound like? A desert? A conch shell?
How did they create all of these endless possibilities for the audience?
Read the complete article online at http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/sound-design-for-the-web
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