For the first week of this project we organised our group and shared a few ideas for possible project proposals. On the Thursday we did a "Visualising sound" workshop where we listened to different sounds, some instrumental and others more generic that we would perhaps hear in our everyday lives. I found this exercise very interesting as different people interpreted the sound differently and you could really start to see everybody's individual style. Some people's visualisation seemed to be more abstract, using just shapes and colour to portray the emotions they felt when listening to the sounds, whereas others produced more literal imagery related to how the sounds are produced.
One of our ideas consisted of basing the location of our project around a park or natural environment within a city. For some people this environment within a contrasting city environment might act as a calming or relaxing place where they can escape the stress of their fast paced city life. We wanted to focus on the fact that when you are in these natural environments even though you are surrounded by the sounds of the city from outside, the imagery in front of you distracts you from the chaos going on outside.
In response to this idea I went to my local park and took several pictures and videos, to collect possible material or inspiration for the final outcome. I started to film different things people might do or see whilst walking though the park/woods such as walking through the leaves, walking their dog or just appreciating the environment around them. Some of my experiments/visual research through film and photography can be seen bellow.
One of our ideas consisted of basing the location of our project around a park or natural environment within a city. For some people this environment within a contrasting city environment might act as a calming or relaxing place where they can escape the stress of their fast paced city life. We wanted to focus on the fact that when you are in these natural environments even though you are surrounded by the sounds of the city from outside, the imagery in front of you distracts you from the chaos going on outside.
In response to this idea I went to my local park and took several pictures and videos, to collect possible material or inspiration for the final outcome. I started to film different things people might do or see whilst walking though the park/woods such as walking through the leaves, walking their dog or just appreciating the environment around them. Some of my experiments/visual research through film and photography can be seen bellow.
Dog walking.
Walking through leaves.
The surrounding landscape seen through the reflections in muddy puddles.
Some of these experiments weren't as successful as I had hoped however some were, most notably the last video. I thought it might be interesting to film the leaves rustling in the wind and just by chance some kind of emergency service vehicle drove past outside merging the very peaceful imagery of nature with the piercing and stressful effect of hearing a siren. This was one of the combinations I was thinking that we could create whilst editing the video and sound footage we would eventually collect. Therefore I was very pleased that I was able to capture this and illustrate my interpretation of this topic to the rest of my group.
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