The sound for Macbeth isn’t set in a specific time period. I went more off of the atmosphere of

the play—dark, creepy, ambient. I chose to focus in on a specific scene, Act 5 Scene 1, as I feel it

captures the overall tone of the show well. The design has very little hard cuts because the

scene (and the show in general) has a lot of ambient sounds, including whispering, rustling, and

water dripping. They add to the overall creepy and mysterious feel of the play. Even the scene

changes would be mostly different types of sounds, more than music with lyrics. Because of all

the fades, the few hard cuts included, such as the knock cutting in, are jarring. This fits well with

the action, but it helps to outline specific moments in the scene. For this scene, the water

dripping is very important as the idea is it seems to be a hallucination of Lady Macbeth’s as she

rubs her hands together. Overall, the layers of the sounds work together to build a cohesive

story of ambience and mystery, while playing into the more unsettling parts of the play.