SOUND UNIT: Development

When I was taking my photos in the forest for "Journey into the great unknown" I came across a man made Faerie Circle. This put the idea to incorporate forest folklore and mythology into my sounds. So I researched folklore and mythology and found that in many legends, the fairies are prone to kidnapping humans, either as babies, leaving changelings in their place, or as young men and women. This can be 
for a time or forever, and may be more or less dangerous to the kidnapped. So after my research I am going to have a section of my story where my character is being loured away by the faeries in the woods. Symbolizing that she is getting deeper into the  with the ears and tails of horses or assewoods and more lost. I have been hugely influenced by director Guillermo del Toro and his movie "Pan's labyrinth" and his use of mythical creatures such as a faun in the story. The faun is a half human - half goat (from the head to the waist being the human half, but with the addition of goat's horns) manifestation of forest and animal spirits which would help or hinder humans at whim. Romans believed fauns inspired fear in men traveling in lonely, remote or wild places. They were also capable of guiding humans in need, as in the fable of The Satyr and the Traveller, in the title of which Latin authors substituted the word Faunus. Fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures: whereas fauns are half-man and half-goat, satyrs originally were depicted as stocky, hairy, ugly dwarfs or woodwosess.

SOUND UNIT: Journey into the great unknown Development.

I decided to change the character of my story to a girl as my Fiancee Jennie said she could model for me.
So today myself and my Jennie set off to Shorne Woods to take the forest section of my photographs. It was raining out of the heavens as we arrived which made taking some of the photos a pain but in the end the rain added more atmosphere to the shots. When I got back I decided to edit my favorite shots on Adobe Photoshop. I also started experimenting with different sounds and layering them together on Sony Vegas Pro 11 for a trial attempt to then take what I have learned here to Final Cut Pro. 

SOUND UNIT: Idea Pitch

Journey into the great unknown

Journey into the great unknown will be about a young man in his early twenties, living in a busy, loud, stressful town. He is rundown and tired so decides to take a trip to the quiet woods for some peace. When walking through the woods the man becomes lost and travels deeper into the woods. The further he travels the strangers things start to become, the atmosphere becomes more alive. He hears his name called in the wind and goes searching to find who is calling him, only to find himself. 

The meaning behind the story is that sometimes we have to become lost in order to find ourselves. 

SOUND UNIT: Sound Development

Today I was put into a group with Sam and Lizzie. We had to take a 2 min piece of film with no sound and create our our sound for the clip. We decided to recreate the sound with the theme of war in mind. we added in guns, bombs, air raid sirens etc. I think we worked really well as part of a team and that we stuck to what the brief told us and came to a great outcome!
Here is what we came up with.

Live Music

I was asked by local musician  Richard de Soussa Silva to create a live video for two of his songs. After being asked to created the videos I also asked Dave if he would like to help me create the videos and he did sound and helped in the editing stage of the video also. 
I directed, filmed and edited the videos and created it under the name of Mozz Films.


Here is one of the videos I produced for Richard de Soussa Silva.

STORY TELLING UNIT: "The Meeting" Film Poster