Sound Design: 
We had so much fun designing this soundscape. Per the brief we have taken a really detailed and cinematic approach to the sound design, with evocative crisp SFX that really place us in this eerie environment, and mixed in 5.1 (as this campaign was cinema-only) it worked beautifully to really draw the viewer in. 
We gave particular attention to the rain sounds, with droplets landing on distinctly audibly different materials that come in and out of our focus as we pan across screen, with a distant thunder clap as we see the rain intensify. To create these sounds we did a number of our own recordings of custom objects under rain to give us consistency, full control and an immersive cinematic feel- all sounds coming from the same source worked beautifully for a 5.1 mix. We recorded foley and some voicings for the man in the ditch, and towards the end of the spot the music becomes the hero in the mix for maximum impact and playing into the cinematic trope of the movie. We made the decisions to leave the car engine off, as felt it created more of a feel that he’s trying to be secretive. 

Music:
This track fuses a dark, thriller-inspired cinematic soundscape that builds musically as we pan slowly across the horror scene. A repetitive synth melody emerges out of the drone and climaxes as we hit the main “turn offyour phone” title, exploding with an 80’s synth wave chorus of horn synths, a menacing synth-bass arpeggio and a screaming guitar solo, which is abruptly cut-off by the Telstra logo for impact, leaving the eerie sound design playing out the the finish.