VIS4037 - Narrative : Collaborative Module (Week 3 - March 2019)
Sound & Movement week 3. In your groups, you are required to create a 15-30 second piece of sound and movement using that weeks' sound as the inspiration for your work. Each week you will present your work back to the whole group, starting with a short synopsis and the keywords that help define the overall feel of your piece. You may resample, edit, repeat, retime, layer or add effects or other sounds to the clip but, whether literal or abstract, creative is paramount
Initial responses
Moving into the third week we were ready to go back to an abstract audio sound, we were taken to an eerie canalside bridge where we were first exposed to the sound. The whole atmosphere underneath the bridge exaggerated the dramatic/sinister effect of the audio file.
We moved to make a list of words associated with the content of the audio; persistent, sinister, dramatic, intensified, metaphysical, trippy, both futuristic and dated, relation to danger and hazard - dramatic pacing. We then considered what other things we felt linked with the sound or with the environment; Tron legacy, trains - railways, train tracks, bridges and tunnels. Music videos: Kanye West – All of The Lights and ASAP Rocky – LSD. Arcade Lights / Game Lights then juxtaposed between modern and retro.
Immediate ideation: We all knew pretty instantly that we would use simple video content but the creativity will come in the visual effects used within this. Echo effects - on both the audio and the visual the after effects plugin that leaves a staggering image trial behind it, strobing and high-intensity lighting, neon Tron inspired lighting, introducing a beeping/flashing red light, potential for video Overlay in Da Vinci Resolve.
Narrative
For this outcome we outlined the ideas of mystery and the building of tension to set it’s own narrative, the music lends itself to an increasing of intensity. We knew that we wanted this footage set in either an enclosed outside space, or an open space indoors - sense of in trapping, for this we found and abandoned building.
Process
Joe and I actually went and booked a DSLR intermediate training this meant that not only could we take out DSLRs but that we had a further understanding of the camera and lighting. This meant when shooting we could consider things like ISO, aperture, and exposure more effectively than maybe before.
Joe had a very strong concept that would involve having a three-dimension black matter existing in a real space, we agreed to work towards that and started to thicken that bank of ideas. We shot panning views from inside and outside the space, I then took a 360 photo on my phone for the reflection mapping on Cinema 4D.