THE AUDIO-VISUAL OBJECT - SD4P task

SD4P exercise.THE AUDIO-VISUAL OBJECT

Note : This is the 4 min version ( it repeats, as part of the idea of 'tech trouble'.... )
So...u only need to watch the first 2 mins or so .... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipgyfwxcCJc

SD4P - Summative Essay - Layout

Sound Design for Picture
                [ Summative Essay ]

     Begin layout/structuring of  the essay on Aronofsky's 'PI'.
The essay concerns the sound design of a selected scene from the film and
what we can glean from this use of both sound and image towards the director's goal.

5.1 Surround Sound Project

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Sat. 10 November '12
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5.1 Surround Sound CC3 Project  -  5 minute 'videomusic'



Currently assembling shot footage and audio for the
CC3  5.1 Surround Sound ( Computer Composition] module.

This is to be a five minute 'videomusic' piece that must stand on it's own as
a piece of sound design in 5.1 Surround Sound.


The footage I have taken is part of a film short and therefore
too linear to be used as is.
Therefore, I'm looking to make it more abstract and to allow the
Sound design/music to become the focal point.
Many sessions booked in the 5.1 studios at Univ. to work on this piece
as well as a lot of time at home bringing various stems together to
fit into an evolving patchwork.

SD4P - Formative Assignment - 15 Oct. 2012

Title:  EVACUATION FOOTAGE

Film clip link :    http://youtu.be/71UZgdIucwg

RE : PLAYBACK & AUDIO
Please listen (if possible ) to the video with your headphones on.  This will then give you the correct cross-fade direction for the dialogue spoken. The passers-by move from right to left . The helicopter sound is from far left to middle  then to left and far left where it then resides with a slight increase again in volume. Thx :) .

Sound Design for Picture 

Formative assignment

15 October 2012

The original video outside the CAB offered only rain and a few passers-by.

Although there  was a variety of sound going on ; rainfall from sky, rainfall from the building’s overhang,  female & male voices and footsteps ( differing velocities/pitches), the rustle of clothing bags, umbrellas being opened/closed  not all of this is actually audible on the film clip.

The image was captured on a phone and therefore has quite  a rough and ready feel. The sounds too lacked any great definition or place in the stereo field. All-round a fairly lo-fi experience.

As the idea for the clip was to make it into a news item, a lot of the sounds of the un-folding chaos were sourced from my own sound libraries.
Such samples were : 
London Riots 2011 - Tottenham, N.London - afternoon.
Helicopter approach and landing -  airshow  (USA)
Chinese language speakers   -  Chinese language instruction course

Foley sounds were used : the creak of a coat and a bag as a person passes by the camera.  The constant ‘rain’ was in fact a pair of trainers  under running water in a bath.

The soundscape felt fairly drab. I wanted to up the emotional content and elicit a certain response from the viewer. Therefore I did some intro and outro frames that put the scene into context.  Namely, that an un-specified emergency was taking place and that this formerly innocuous film clip took on a greater import as it was deemed to be ‘ recovered footage’ from the scene as it un-folded.

Technically, the sound processing and  production was not particularly involved.

The idea was to up the drama content but to retain the lo-fi quality to make it believable as evidence of the scene and the way in which it was captured and thus preserved.

The attempt here was to create a ‘cinema verite’ style clip.
The emphasis being on authenticity and brevity. Which is typical of this style of film. The audience is left wanting more  but  there is no more ; only this witness and its limited scope.  
  [ A prime example of this would be Abraham Zapruder’s film of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, 22 November 1963].

Outside the CAB - Mon. 24 Sept. 2012

CAB  Sound Recording

Date:
11.30 am - 11.45 am -  Mon. 24 Sept. '12

Team members :
Panos / Jon / Bruno

Location:
20 m to the left of the CAB entrance ( POV: as you walk out of the CAB).


Objective :
Record the sounds from a position outside the CAB for approximately  45 seconds.

 

 Notes:

Bruno - regular sneezes
Panos - giving instructions / Cig lighter noises
Jon -     taking notes/ mostly quiet/ noise of pen to paper


MAIN SOUNDS:  

RAIN / TRAFFIC

To the left, the sound is more pronounced as this is closer to the ring road
and roundabout with the constant traffic adding to the overall sound stage.


To the right , the sound is more uniform.
there is also the noise from the lower part of the ring road traffic
that is filtered through the  CS building

Centre : 
Mixture of the above  two sound sources.
Slight bias to the more localized sound of rain dripping
off the building's  balustrade above our observation point.

Peripheral sounds :

Delivery Trolley being wheeled across the  courtyard/outside area.
Despite the rain the sound is carried and reverberated.

Umbrellas being open/ closed

Men's footsteps  heavier than women's
Women's footsteps in the higher registers and easier to discern


The combination of the rain with the traffic produces
a different sound as to that of traffic in dry weather.
There are higher frequencies and  dynamics to the general dull roar of
traffic on a dry road.

Introduction

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Univ. of Huddersfield  -  Year 3
SOUND DESIGN FOR PICTURE
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This blog is a record of my work in the Sound Design for Picture module.


Jon Crook
[aka Fleegle Beegle]