As I had not previously taken on the role of sound recordist or explored sound design in so much depth, I spent some time researching both the creative possibilities that can be achieved with sound and also the technical side.
I found the following book with an added DVD in the university library to be particularly useful, and specifically relating it to our film, the section that discusses creating effective atmospheric recordings within one single space. I made some notes on this to discuss with the group, such as some early ideas about how the character's headspace could be communicated to the audience through sound alone, even alongside film content where the visuals could look different. I also read up about how to create a sound effect that I thought might work alongside the panic attack scene visuals, which was a technique I had seen been achieved in film before, that starts with a noise similar to white noise, builds up and then stops completely for a few minutes.
A similiar technique can be seen in this clip of Children of Men (2006, Dir.Alfonso CuarĂ³n) at around 2:02 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfBSncUspBk
In addition to this, I also read a number of online articles relating to sound design in a few key film scenes that I have noticed achieve this effectively, as well as interviews with the sound designers involved. These included the end scene to Fight Club (1999, Dir. David Fincher), the raining frogs scene in Magnolia (1999, Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) and a collection of scenes in Let The Right One In (2008, Dir. Tomas Alfredson).
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