Akira

Akila

Visual

color

• red: power
  • red motorcycle
  • red cape
• blue
  • hospital
  • the kids

bike

• slide
• back light

light

• Building: various bright light (cyberpunk)
• hospital: blue

Nostalgia

• link between the current time scene and the past scene showed in the end

Text

signs

spoken

• Tetsuo: I don’t need this piece of junk (Kaneda’s bike) anymore
• It’s them or us
• if … get the power, will them protect others or obsorbing everything around them
• Akira never speaks, but the name shows its power

Sound

sfx, music, voices, rhythm, cadence, sequences.

The background music seems like some kind of

• traditional music,
• acustic,
• percuission
• Pelog Selisir, Gamelan
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ku9iH2pU9g
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsPdTNGnr44
• A little Psychedelia, maybe some similarity in rhythm or just sound frequence
  • Light My Fire
  • The Sound of Wilderness
  • Within you without you

One to highlight mysterious: dada tuo da (8min)

To make contrast between destruction/explosion: a peaceful sound

sound from inside v.s. sound from outside

• where does the sound came from?

• where is Tetsuo?

• Diegetic Sound — from within the movie

• Non-Diegetic Sound — from outside the movie

  • almost like tetuso is a higher power/force
  • music

chanting sound during the march

• forcing to go ons

Narrative & Storyline.

think about narrative story line, is there one?

The simplest one is Keneda trying to help Tesuto and rebuild their friendship.

how is the medium the message? what does it actually do? think about how/what the media (sound) do to the story, narrative, story? who is Akira?

Akira might be the medium of the story, carrying out the plot and underlying idea. Akira, as from the movie, could be the god, the world saver, a disease, nuclear power, or just a general form of power that gives privilege or superior to some people.