Sound Design...

Over the last few days i have been thinking about the sound design for my interactive fable. I wanted to go for an eerie string sound. With me looking at the likes of Tim Burton for the design, i thought i'd look at his pal Danny Elfman, He has done the sound for the majority of Burton's films. He has a real stand out sound, which is like no others.

My idea is to create a four bar sample and loop it round. However, this proved to be far more difficult than i imagined. For a few reasons, one...i am not fimiliar with garage band and wouldn't have felt more comfortable using a software like cubase. two...it took me awhile to get me head around the sound design inside flash. three...flash has been running slow all day and what should have taken 2 mintues has taken 15 minutes and my patients is running thin.

So, i have made it a little easier and have gone with a windy, rainy soundscape, which hasn't looped too well, but is good enough to create an atmosphere.