Week 21

Below is a link to the finished experimental film

Sunk: https://vimeo.com/195345805
Experimental sound: https://soundcloud.com/user-539835767/hcc-city-two-sides_2

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Week 16

An example of an experimental film includes Telling Lies (https://vimeo.com/19974262). It is an experimental film because it does not follow genre conventions of a regular short film. Linking back to Broadwell and Thompson's "Film Art: An Introduction" an experimental film is a film that challenges typical mainstream cinema. For example, no visuals are shown on screen, it is an audio heavy film that only shows captions. The film is based on the main character Phil's phone calls the morning after a night out. The on screen captions also correct the lies told in the narrative which links back to the films title 'Telling Lies'. I think the fact that the lies are corrected in the caption adds a brilliant technical element to the film so the audience know about the truth making them understand the narrative more in such a short amount of time. An experimental film could be made for many reasons; the filmmaker may want to get across a message or share an experience that wouldn't necessarily have much of an audience effect with a typical narrative. Overall 'Telling Lies' is a great example of an experimental film as it successfully takes a new approach to story telling while getting its message across.

Week 14

Sound List

Heeley City Farm

Corporation

Exterior Ambience (1) Exterior Ambience (2) Car Sound Birds Sound (1) Birds Sound (2) Birds Sound (3) Chicken Sound (1) Chicken Sound (2) Rooster Sound Duck Sound (1) Duck Sound (2) Water Pipe Sound Pig Sound (1) Pig Sound (2) Pig Sound (3) Swing Sound Children Sound (1) Children Sound (2) Rocking House Sound Gate Sound (1) Gate Sound (2) Gate Sound (3) Walking On Grass Sound Walking On Concrete Sound

Outside Corp Ambience (1) Outside Corp Ambience (2) Outside Corp Ambience (3) Inside Corp Quiet Room (1) Inside Corp Quiet Room (2) Inside Corp Quiet Room (3) Corp From Top Floor Ambience Inside Corp Packed Room (1) Inside Corp Packed Room (2) Inside Corp Conversation (1) Inside Corp Conversation (2) Inside Corp Conversation (3) Plastic Cups Sound Effect Smoking Area Ambience Smoking Area Conversation (1) Smoking Area Conversation (2) Smoking Area Conversation (3) Smoking Area Conversation (4) Smoking Area Conversation (5)

Equipment List
Audio Technica AT8015 Rifle Microphone - This is will be the main device to capture the audio recording.
Headphones - This device will be for the audio recorder so they can hear what they are recording and to test the quality.
Zoom H4N - This device is used to record and save the sound recordings. It is the device that is connected to the microphone to record the sound.

Monday 17th October 2016
This is the day we agreed to get all of the farm sound. After arranging a date and time with the management of the farm who agreed we could record there, we were given a slot of around 2 hours to get all the sound we felt necessary. Getting as many animal sounds as well as quiet ambient sound from the farm we feel is crucial to our sound project.

We scheduled to do our editing for the farm project for the following week whenever we could. Depending on our uni hours we all used the uni servers to edit when we could and add extra additions over the week. We would then go on to review what we had edited the following week.

Wednesday 26th October 2016
This is the day we agreed with Corp to film our club sounds. Corp is open Wednesday nights and after failed attempts to get access to Plug and CODE, Corp allowed us to film our sound project on this night. During this recording slot, we intended to get a lot of ambience from the club from various areas such as smoking area, club main room, club second room and also get some sound recording of conversations.

Because we are running tight on a deadline after this shoot. We agreed to do sound editing on the Friday as well as Monday next week. We believed two days of full editing gave us plenty of time to create a high piece of quality edit.

Week 12

This week we listened to a audio piece based on the Irish slaughter houses. The piece is a radio documentary with the narrator being someone who used to work and grow up on these slaughter houses. The main elements that stuck out in this piece included Irish folk music, and especially the cutting, sharpening of the knives and squealing of the pig. The part of this piece that had the most effect amonst the audience is the casual squealing of the pig as the narrator is talking about meat. It gives a light headed and sickly feeling to the way you can hear the animal being slaughtered in the background. Can even go as far to make the audience reflect on their diet from a meat point of view. Although I did not find the piece interesting from an entertainment perspective. I felt it did its job on an audience reaction. Not just making the audience feel queasy with the slaughter sounds but maybe even nostalgic with the classical Irish folk music. If any of the audience are from an Irish background they might be able to relate to the nostalgia the narrator is trying to show to the audience.

Week 11

Today we watched a short film during the session called High Rise. Which is a film about a mother watching tv while in neglect of her baby near the open high rise window. It is a very suspenseful film as the it has you on edge during the whole narrative weather or not the baby will fall from the window. Their are many subliminal messages this film could be giving off, and it is really up to audience interpretation. For my own personal perspective at first watch I thought the mother was a drug addict who didn't care for her child, saw it more of a weight on her shoulders she didnt want and only showed actual interest when she thought the baby fell out the window. It could also be argued she is using the TV as a sense of escapism, watching typical daytime TV while ignoring her life problems. I personally thought for a short film, it was a very interesting approach. I personally enjoyed it as it had me on edge at the whole time not knowing what was going to happen.