This is a theater sound design project that I based off the movie Defiance starring Daniel Craig. The story is about a Jewish refugees during World War 2 where they made a safe haven in the forest hiding from the German forces. The poem that is being read in the back is an old Greek tale of Eurystheus. The project asked to tell a story of a group who struggled and triumphed in the end.

Music was a big part of the project. It definitely helped create the mood that I wanted to convey in terms of setting the initial narrative and transforming the story line from a group's struggle to victory. I used bunch of music from the Logic's library and some from the movie "300" soundtrack.

All credit goes to Warner Brothers, Paramount Vantage and their respective associates.

Story of a Struggle

Reading of C.S. Lewis' poem 'Dungeon Grates' to the musical piece Halcyon(Beautiful Days) by Mono a Japanese post-rock band. The pattern of the poem fit the pattern of the musical piece really well. The beginning of the musical piece sounded ominous yet hopeful. The beginning of the poem was just hopeless and dreary. As the poem went on, the mood changed and became hopeful. As the musical piece went on, the mood also changed into something more bright and inviting. 

So piteously the lonely soul of man
Shudders before this universal plan,
So grievous is the burden and the pain,
So heavy weighs the long, material chain
From cause to cause, too merciless for hate,
The nightmare march of unrelenting fate,
I think that he must die thereof unless
Ever and again across the dreariness
There came a sudden glimpse of spirit faces,
A fragrant breath to tell of flowery places
And wider oceans, breaking on the shore
From which the hearts of men are always sore.
It lies beyond endeavour; neither prayer
Nor fasting, nor much wisdom winneth there,
Seeing how many prophets and wise men
Have sought for it and still returned again
With hope undone. But only the strange power
Of unsought Beauty in some casual hour
Can build a bridge of light or sound or form
To lead you out of all this strife and storm;
When of some beauty we are grown a part
Till from its very glory’s midmost heart
Out leaps a sudden beam of larger light
Into our souls. All things are seen aright
Amid the blinding pillar of its gold,
Seven times more true than what for truth we hold
In vulgar hours. The miracle is done
And for one little moment we are one
With the eternal stream of loveliness
That flows so calm, aloft from all distress
Yet leaps and lives around us as a fire
Making us faint with overstrong desire
To sport and swim for ever in its deep—
Only a moment.
                      O! but we shall keep
Our vision still. One moment was enough,
We know we are not made of mortal stuff.
And we can bear all trials that come after,
The hate of men and the fool’s loud bestial laughter
And Nature’s rule and cruelties unclean,
For we have seen the Glory—we have seen.

C.S. Lewis

All credits go to Mono and C.S. Lewis and their respective associates.

Dungeon Grates

Again I take a sound clip and a sound track from the movie 300 to convey a story of sacrifice. I chose the track "Message for the Queen" because of the singing and how it feels as if it is portraying the emotional side of duty and sacrifice. I claim no copyright to any of the aforementioned materials. All credits go to Warner Brothers and associates. 

Story of Sacrifice

I was bored. What can I say, I love messing around with my toys

Sound Ratchet