Project 2
Weeks prior to this assignment, I had been putting very long hours into my Film 1 project spending night after night slaving over an old 16mm steenbeck splicing table. The noise literally haunted my dreams at 24fps, as I sat in my delirious dark-room state. For my second official departure from reality, I tried to realize my delirious state using other people's material. There are bins located in the editing room with pieces of film that someone else has scrapped for one reason or another. Digging through this supposed trash, I found some really interesting and bizarre footage.
After splicing the picture together, I began working on the sound design. My first attempt, however personal, turned out pretty terrible. I basically just put music over the footage that represented what I had been listening to in my late night editing delirium. I did however show this video in class, because it worked well as a divergence from my actual project.
The more I watched my first attempt, the more I realized just how corny it really was. No one dreams entire song sequences, the tone of the piece was nothing as I had intended it to be, and worst of all it felt like a music video, as opposed to a found footage project. I then went back and took out all the sound and watched each clip separately. I began to appreciate each individual clip not as someone else's trash, but as their art. While the clips flowed together to form a coherent sequence, each piece still retained its independent vitality, and therefore deserved separation. I came up with this instead:
I was very happy with this project and especially the diachotomy between the two pieces. It proves how much sound design plays into the tone of a film.