Evaluations
for “There and Back Again”
The given theme for this project is “Visions and Wonders”.” There
and Back Again" story is a metaphor for “repetitive hope” itself. The
title "There and Back Again" is taken from a movie called "Lord
of the Rings". The term "There and Back Again" is been there and
back again literally. The story shown that the protagonist was saved by his
older self which eventually he must save the upcoming event which is already
occurred to him. This takes place in the depth of sea due to the facts that
humans tend to fear the unknown and isolation which lies under the abyss in the
depth.
The plot of the story starts with a protagonist fell into the sea
after he lost a fight on the surface of the sea by some torpedo, which are the
fish-torpedos, as fast water current drag the protagonist into the abyss. Upon
waking up, he found himself in a dark void filled with two submarine-whale
which represent enemy submarine. After a while, a bright pressure suit appears
scaring the two beasts away with yet another submarine-whale, which represent
ally submarine, which it shows hope for the protagonist. After the protagonist
is saved, he passed out. Upon waking up again, this time he finds himself, old
and yet familiar, in a pressure suit that saved him. While on the surface,
another similar protagonist fell into the sea and this event kept on repeating
itself until the end of time.
The story is trying to tell the audience that hope can be found
even the darkest places. Showing there’s always hope in every doubtful event.
It also shows that every hope has its downsides.
In design perspective, some of the elements are mostly
inspired from Valero Doval’s “Aerofauna” which is a montage between organic
life form and man-made object. Making a slight relation in functionality such
as bird flies with wings and so does a plane. It’s quite interesting that
Valero Doval’s work tend to have a vintage-styled color scheme which bring out
its nostalgic-ness in his works. Which also inspired the “There and Back Again”
storyline. The color used in “There and Back Again” is more likely to be dark
to show the audiences the feeling of “fear” and “hopelessness”.
In audio perspective, I’ve come out a theme for this story which
suit. The theme which is quite similar to The Golden Age by Woodkid. I’ve used
this theme because it sounded creepy yet folk-ish. Which is great for the story
due to the message to send to the audience which is “despair”, “hope” and
“vintage”. The audio consists of the sound of hydrophone sound, piano keys and
strings. The tools used to produce the audio are “Fruity Loops Studio 12”, to
create the piano keys and “Adobe Audition”, to mix the hydrophone sounds, the
piano keys and the strings. The string part came from a cello which played by
myself. The string part consists of hitting the music instrument like a
percussion, playing the strings in looping melody, and even making it does the
“screeching sound”. During the post-processing in Adobe Audition, I’ve mixed
them all together to produce a pleasant sound as possible. I’m quite satisfied
with the outcome.
Finally, I’ve sewing up the audio
and visuals together into one piece. Adding some panning and scaling to make it
less of a slideshow instead
