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Foley room session
This week our main focus as a group was to start getting our final mix to speed. We talked about how where progressing within our group. I talked about my final mix, and how I was slowing working towards the deadline. Jessica mentioned to me about how panning and or playing my mix in 5:1.…
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Place, composition and subjectivity
Place, composition and subjectivity What makes these things important? This week session is the consideration of space and our place within it. For example we see some woods as a particular place but what do we recognise in the spaces? The awareness of the space changes with ones intentionality. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment And…
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NOWISWHENWEARE BFI
NOWISWHENWEARE NOWISWHENWEARE is an exhibition that was shown in October to accompany the BFI film festival. I was introduced to this exhibition by my lecturer Jessica Marlowe and wanted to check it out. The artist is Andrew Schneider who is know in the film industry for his works on The Sopranos (1999) and Northern Exposure…
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Emotional narratives and subjectivity, filming through sound
Paul Davis Why use music on film? My response to this was multifaceted. I think it has several uses, one might be too evoke a feeling where it is needed. We are able to do this in several ways, like to have a sad song played at a sad part of a film. However, directors…
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Fiction, poets and voice
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…
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Margret Tait Aerial (1974)
This four minute poet film by Margret Tait touches natural elemental feeling like water, air and fire. It doesn’t follow a narrative sonically and is more structured for a musical score than a narrative driven film. Instead of us pushing through a plot, Tait constructs a world of rhythms, textures and emotional pulses. Taits films…
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Extended studio practice week three
This week we looked into making a drum machine, we used the same equipment and added a button for the input for the kick and snare. Its quite simple loop but it was fun to see our work actually coming into fruit to create these drum loops and oscillators. This week I did struggle a…
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The art of storytelling with sound
Hunger by Steve Mcqueen Walter Murch’s words encapsulate this perfectly “You have more freedom with sound than you do with picture. There are, consequently, fewer rules. But the big three things—which are emotion, story, and rhythm—apply to sound just as much as they apply to picture. You are always primarily looking for something that will…
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The walkman effect by Shuhei Hosokawa
Key Concepts The key concepts that I noticed when reading this essay where how portable listening was reshaping public spaces. It shows how the listener creates a bubble of audio, that’s a private soundtrack that overlays into the public world, which in turn changes the simple act of walking into a performative art. I think…
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Foley
Inside the Pinewood foley studio Jack Foley We Need To Talk About Kevin directed by Lynne Ramsey Reflections Learning about Foley, from the precision of Pinewoods studio to the legacy of Jack Foley himself has completely reshaped the way I think about sound for screen. These sessions have shown me that sound isn’t just something…