"The eye (in general) superficial, the ear profound and inventive. A locomotive's whistle imprints in us a whole railway station."
The ear is indeed inventive, that is why the audio needs to be spot on. The audio is often one of the first give aways of a student film. if the audio is perfect for the film the audience invents parts of the world you want them to, if there are holes and mistakes, the inventiveness of the audience can work against you. With my film I am most worried with continuity with in the audio. Continuity in general has been one of my stumbling points. I feel that the background music that will be playing during the party will help with continuity, but there are still some issues. the script jumps in time from one shot to the next, and my dilema is weather to have the background audio jump with the image or have the song simply change resonance and volume as the shot jumps around. A continuous song certainly is less jarring to the ear, but if I keep a continuous song during for the back ground music will it bug or distract people given the fact that the image is jumping in time? Who knows
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
"a sound must never come to the rescue of an image, nor an image to the rescue of sound"
Film is not a singularity, it has always been (in my life) a dichotamy of sound and image, and the best moments of film that linger in my mind, reminding me of the moments of my life where i was sitting in the theater transfixed and transported by film, use the two sides to immerse the audience in the world of the film. I personally am very attached to films that successfully employ the use of music, not simply as an overlay on the image, but when the music and image are entwined, working with each to create a sum greater than the parts. I strive to marry song to image in my career, but I'm not sure if this will be successfully accomplished in my 4500 film. regardless of what happens this semester I will continue to think of film and image together, especially music and image.
In regards to my final film, the soundscape will encompass music, but simply as a diagenic artifact of the party. I do have one song (Beethoven's Symphony No. 7) serving as somewhat of a theme song for one character.
Film is not a singularity, it has always been (in my life) a dichotamy of sound and image, and the best moments of film that linger in my mind, reminding me of the moments of my life where i was sitting in the theater transfixed and transported by film, use the two sides to immerse the audience in the world of the film. I personally am very attached to films that successfully employ the use of music, not simply as an overlay on the image, but when the music and image are entwined, working with each to create a sum greater than the parts. I strive to marry song to image in my career, but I'm not sure if this will be successfully accomplished in my 4500 film. regardless of what happens this semester I will continue to think of film and image together, especially music and image.
In regards to my final film, the soundscape will encompass music, but simply as a diagenic artifact of the party. I do have one song (Beethoven's Symphony No. 7) serving as somewhat of a theme song for one character.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
4500 1
For my 4500 film I will be doing a scene from a feature length piece i have been working on for about two years. The basic plot of the full script is "Three college roommates go on a road trip through the west, and hilarity ensues." I have some footage from the road, my super 8 footage can be seen here
https://vimeo.com/49850057
and some time-lapse footage can be seen here
https://vimeo.com/44201716
https://vimeo.com/24902531
The scene for 4500 will be the emotional climax which takes place in Portland OR. I will explain how the three got to where they are i will make a short intro (about 1 min) using footage from the road.
I also have an image, and I will be interested to see if anyone knows what it is
My biggest challenge right now is figuring out names for my three main characters. so far they are simply the Architect, the Engineer, and the Artist.
Finally, here is a short excerpt from the script.
https://vimeo.com/49850057
and some time-lapse footage can be seen here
https://vimeo.com/44201716
https://vimeo.com/24902531
The scene for 4500 will be the emotional climax which takes place in Portland OR. I will explain how the three got to where they are i will make a short intro (about 1 min) using footage from the road.
I also have an image, and I will be interested to see if anyone knows what it is
My biggest challenge right now is figuring out names for my three main characters. so far they are simply the Architect, the Engineer, and the Artist.
Finally, here is a short excerpt from the script.
Inside the bathroom the ARTIST takes his boot off,
ARTIST
oooohhhh
to reveal a severely swolen foot
ARTIST (CONT’D)
Ohhh!
cut to the artist in the shower, feeling hot water for the first
time on the trip
ARTIST (CONT’D)
AAAHHHHHhhhhh
The ARTIST leaves the bathroom, and the ARCHITECT enters it. He flosses
his teeth
ARCHITECT
Ahhhhhhhh
Smells his arm pits
ARCHITECT (CONT’D)
ew
and feels hot water in the shower
ARCHITECT (CONT’D)
OOOOOHHHHHHH, yeah
Next the ENGINEER goes to shower with the bong. He shaves
ENGINEER
eeehhhhh
rips the bong
ENGINEER (CONT’D)
ohhh ho ho
and gets in the hot shower
ENGINEER (CONT’D)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Finally, NIKO goes to shower. he puts two Alka Seltzer in a cup
and inhales the vapors
NIKO
ahhhhhh
looks at his Empire symbol tramp stamp, just now seeing it for
the first time
NIKO (CONT’D)
awwww, god damn it
and enjoys the hot water
NIKO (CONT’D)
Ahhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhHHHHH
and throws up in the shower
NIKO (CONT’D)
YYYYAAAAARRRRRF
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