In this project brief, I responded to the mystical, ethereal sensation that I got out of the sound design and how it made me feel on a spiritual level. The ethereality of the sound came mainly from the faint melodic high pitched singing sounds that I interpreted to be train brakes on the tracks and actual human voices singing.

I blended audio and visual in my piece by making an effort to compliment the sounds with movement. This included the movement of water back and forward on the beach and the movement of trains and trams laterally along their tracks. For instance, in the swell of voice and sounds in the last ten seconds of the audio, I used a clip of a swelling wave on the ocean that had movement to match the sounds.

Additionally, I found that the squeaking squealing sounds of the train in the audio clip was not completely unpleasant to listen to but piercing and unusual, so I decided to use choppy fast cuts between the tram and train with frames of the beach to create a sense of the sound having an affect on how the vision was being communicated.

The finished work immerses the viewer in the consistency of images, in particular the first image of the figure at the train station matching visually with him standing at the beach. Also, I chose to communicate my visual piece based on aspect-to-aspect storytelling which focuses on placing an audience in a space absent of any particular time. I made this decision because without an emphasis or focus on time and action, the audience is given a chance to absorb the visuals that they are given and immerse themselves in the reality that I present them with.