Week 6 reminder of class crits for the audio paper
What fiction do I know?
A lot of the fiction that I digest is through books, I read a lot as it calms my mind before going to sleep. I love to get lost in these stories and tap into a fictional world so far from my own. Not only books but when I listen to music, music allows me to tap into fiction from what the music is doing or going and puts me into another headspace.
It’s also good to note sounds ability to trick and deceive us and make us question our own reality. Sound is sometimes misleading, as a piece of bacon can sound like falling rain when listened to quietly, foley allows that effect too take place within film.
Foley
On previous blog post I’ve talked about foley and the creative expression that comes with the art. It’s created in a studio outside the actual shoot, we talked about how a lot of the nature documentary’s don’t take audio from the actual shoot as animal can be dangerous and hard to get close to with a mic. This is a great example of why foley is sometimes deceiving and it can flip the perception of someone watching, it shows how we are constantly mislead sonically.
Listening exercise
We listened to a piece of audio with our any visual context and we had to figure out what is what. The audio without context was strange because I could hear humans talking but not in a language I understand. What I wrote down in my notebook: “Feels like a big room and from the point if view from a fly or insect flying around the walls”. The word the popped into my head at the time surveillance.
Turns out the audio was from this little fella. A type of mimicking bird that is near human civilisations that copies their voices. I was wasn’t far off!
Do I use voice in my practice?
In the past I have really used voice as the forefront for a lot of my university projects. The last hand in for year one was a piece that works around a narrator of some old flats that got demolished. I like the voice in my work as it is a power driver.
How can voice change you?
The voice can carry so much with it. I think the voice as a medium is what grips us to the art work, I find it to be a useful tune to create art with. I like the memory and reflection you can add with voice.