Directions Unit- Gregory Crewdson Photographs and Planning to Direct a 4 Minute Short Film.

I have recently begun my new unit at university, which is entitled "Directions." This unit mostly focuses on moulding me into a better director, and seems to target my skills as a director, as opposed to script-writing, camera work or any form of editing.
The first part of this unit involves me creating a 1 minute sound design piece featuring a photograph by the photographic artist Gregory Crewdson. The aim of this project will be to tell a story using a photograph using only sound. I will not be able to manipulate the photograph in any way, and the only visual enhancements I may use are to zoom into certain parts of the photograph when I wants to show that a specific sound is playing from a specific area.
The class has been given a choice of which Gregory Crewdson photograph they would like to work on, and one that I am particularly interested in using is his "House Fire" photograph shown here:

The reason I am planning on using this image as opposed to the others is that this is definitely the scene which has the most "action." I believe there's potential for me to make a much more interesting sound design piece if there is a lot going on in the image.

The second part of my project involves me creating a 4 minute short film based on "A Journey Through..." The catch with this project is that I can only operate in a Directors capacity. This means I cannot write my own script, film my own scenes, appear in my own film or do my own editing. For this project, I had to choose what my journey would be through. The choices were:

• Sorrow
• Love
• Anger
• Freedom
• Loneliness

I decided to choose Freedom as my journey piece, with the reason being that the script I was given to direct by immediately brought a particular storyline into my head which would work if it had Freedom as the main "theme" of the film.