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CASE STUDY · SCORE + SFX · BRICK OUT STUDIO, ANIMATED SHORT

MERIT · ASP 2022

BY THE SEA

Piano and strings that move like the tide, for a family learning to hold on to each other again.

CLIENT

Brick Out Studio

ROLE

Composer / SFX

TIMELINE

2022

FORMAT

Animated short

_THE BRIEF

A family loses the mother in a storm. Her son holds on to the raincoat she gave him, and through the journey he finds his way back to his dad. The music had to carry the grief without drowning the story, and leave room for father and son to reconnect.

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Piano and string arpeggios rise and fall like waves, so the sea is always present in the music, even in the quiet scenes. In the family moments, the piano sits in the low and mid register: warmer and closer, so the intimacy between father and son is something the audience can feel.

_THE IDEA

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