In a interview with Gary Rydstrom he explains the different sound techniques he implemented for Saving Private Ryan.
I was particularly interested in the shellshocked effect that he created by recording a seashell. I thought that it was really simple yet effective way for the audience to see the experience through the protagonists perspective.
I want to create something with the same personal impact for my audio.
This was my first initial sound that I created for the film. I wanted to try and tell a story through the audio and give the audience that something bad has just happened.
However on reflection I think that this was maybe too literal and that I should strip it back to just one element of the sound so that I could have more creative freedom when it came to the accompanying visuals.
One of my favourite films and my favourite scenes! The tension and the way the music is building is amazing. As soon as she says “Sink into your chair” the way the music overpowers the scene, it plays such a big part not only in this scene but throughout the film.
https://vimeo.com/172483005
The interesting way to edit the sound and image, really clear, vivid and impressive especially the scene of taking drugs in the beginning. And the good quality of being logical and consistent in the video inspires me when I editing my sounds of noises and the corresponding images.
Clasp is an onomatopoeia, which represents the sound when a device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together. Also, it has the other meaning, embrace. This video shows two different women and the connection between them.
Three scenes include independent space, semi-open space and open space, respectively, means a symbol of self, communication, and exploration. There is no languages or even the faces of both, and audiences can only imagine their lives with the sound of a numerous of things. This inspires me to use sounds of different objects to express the emotions in my video.
“Star Trek”, which utilized the absence of sound from 2 minutes 55 seconds to 3 minutes. A sound of screaming to the silence in the dangerous explosion illustrates intensive situation and make audiences to experience the feelings in the film. This inspires me to take sound of silence into my video to help audiences read into my video.
This experiment expressively demonstrates the effect I want to attain in the visual part of the project.
Memories are unobtainable – once they occur, they cannot be retrieved. We cannot see and hear them clearly, they modify into an obscure, remote and vitiating picture in our minds. Just like an old tape (a thing of the past!) starts decaying and deprives us of a quality sound and image, memories settle down in the glitchy, hazy world of oblivion to give way to new such. It is only natural for human beings to be unable to recollect every single moment of an old delightful occurrence and get just a touch of it in their heads, this is why I decided to show memoirs as a slackening, transistory, vague mental picture with the help of VHS-like effect.
My two ideas and inspiration – deriving sound from image and using trippy psychedelic effects as a visual, mixed together well. The audio produced by old photographs of mine has a crisp, scraping, a TV static effect to it. The glitches and distortions I would like to use perfectly merged with it. The outcome I want to achieve is similar to the video given – visuals adding to the strong influence of the sound.
Grounding my project on memories and sentimentality, I went back to the roots of the photograph, its invisible part – wavelengths and spectrum. I asked myself then what sound could an image produce. After some research, I found that it is possible to derive sound from visual. In that case the produced audio would be an utter surprise. The forementioned example gives an idea of how it can resonate (it is a somehow expected result – a digital, sharp, cutting sound).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EyZUTDAH0U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dst9gZkq1a8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diW6jXhLE0E
The main theme in the art I create is built on memories, nostalgia and utopia. For this sound project I again based my idea around these three aspects. This time I seeked inspiration from the trippy and psychedelic videos to songs by Travis Scott and The Weeknd, directed by the gaining popularity directing duo BRTHR. Mashing blasts of neon colours, blurs and distortions, adheres to their unique style in illustrating dreamlike visuals. That kind of effect evoked somehow nostalgic feeling – as if you’re tripping back to memories but as a gone moment they are unclear, foggy, cannot be reached or relived, can only be seen in a surreal fashion.