"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.
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