< MALac 6 >

During Danny Kayes seminar we produced a sound script for our malac production.

Sound for MALac:


Ambience:
1. Occasional passing cars to remind audience of urban yet isolated location.
2. Passing siren when ‘MALac’ appears to stress the desperateness of man’s situation.
3. Dripping water to demonstrate filth/ desolation? Too cheesy?
4. Large amounts of silence, esp. between dialogue to emphasise nature of power/submission relationship between man and woman.

Music:

1. Misleading (potentially rom com style) optimistic feel good theme in opening scene, as true intent of story becomes clear music becomes sinister.
2. Reliance on sound effects and ambient sound for core scene with sinister strings or sounds etc returning for disturbing climax

Voices:

1. Majority dialogue recorded live rather than v.o
2. Key dialogue recorded as v.o: man scream, and opening unseen dialogue.
3. This gives more options for subversive editing

Sound effects:

1. List of key sound effects (basement)

• coin toss (online resource flashfx)
• feet on stairs (hammer on wood block?)
• dragging chair (nails on board?)
• drink pouring/fizzing (actual record)
• glass on table (wood block)
• the brief case closing (car boot!)
• light bulb flickering (sfx library)
• light bulb switch (finger clock on plastic)
• independent recording of breathing /panting of man
• slap

2. List of key sound effects (bedroom)
• tv/radio from adjacent room (vo programme about sex games?)