The song “Satellite” by Sunset Rollercoaster and Leah Dou had a dreamy and atmospheric musical style. It is the type of music that requires the audience to quietly focus and listen.

The artistic approach of the stage design focused on creating a minimal and emotional visual environment to match the mood of the song. Most of the musical instruments were removed from the stage, leaving only a single sofa placed at the center of the stage. The minimalist setup helped to draw the audience’s attention towards the sofa and focusing on listening to the vocal.

Purple, blue, pink and white lighting tones were mainly used throughout the show to create a soft and cinematic atmosphere. Slow lighting movements, such as a 5 second fade colour transitions were programmed to follow the gentle flow of the music without becoming overly intense or distracting.

This chosen film clip is taken from the animated film Moana, showing the scene where Moana and Maui encounter the Kakamora pirates. The aim of the project was to recreate a mock-up version of the original soundtrack while adding creative ideas and sound elements of my own. All the sound effects, music, foley sounds and background ambience in the clip were recreated from scratch.

This scene was chosen because it contains many different mood changes within a short amount of time. It begins with curiosity, then quickly changes into action and ends with nervousness and humour. These emotional changes created opportunities to experiment with different sound design approaches throughout the clip.

Although this was a second-year project, it is still one of my favourite projects because the whole process felt very fun, creative and enjoyable.