Inspiration
Films
I have been researching and watching some films that I feel can be used to demonstrate how sound usage can contribute to the idea of exploring a memory or journey of the mind. These have inspired me to think of new ways of creating our memory inspired audio project on the theme 'sense of place'. Two films that I have watched and found to be particularly useful in my research so far are Donnie Darko (2001) and Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (2004).
Locations
After discussing the possibilities for the future visual content to go alongside this project in the tutorial session, we have been thinking about how to make use of the spaces that are easily accessible and available to us everyday. For this reason, instead of our original initial idea of the visuals being based on a train journey with a window view, we have developed and expanded upon this idea further to come up with a list of possible windows we could use in the visuals. This could be applied as an overall theme to the project ; the windows as objects could be used to direct the narrative and create the impression of the memory montage from the subject's point of view, which could be done even without the need to show the subject in the visuals at all.
Some possible examples of these could be:
A series of
windows through another window - in order to generate ideas around the subject
of watching and the passing of time, as well as to show the subject's physical
location - in this case inside looking outside.
I like the idea of using space as an object - Gaining a closer up view through a window, to create an entirely different meaning, e.g. this door close up could be seen and interpreted as a subject being trapped, whereas the further away shot shows it in its real sense and does not leave much room for exploring narrative interpretations.
Another concept that I have thought about is using smaller spaces to convey meanings (e.g. through key holes, viewers on opposite sides of doors etc.). An idea which is appealing to me is that as the pace as well as tone of the piece progresses, the windows get smaller in size to mirror the subject's emotions/state of mind. This idea would mean that we would also not have to show the subject in person at all visually, but instead focus on the strength of the audio for now. The changing sizes in the windows could be used to represent the memory moving further away from the subject's mind, as they are trying to focus on their personal journey (shown through the visuals) and forget and move on from the memory.
Experimental Audio
The main thing that I am exploring with my research, and would also like to incorporate into my own project is the idea of creating something unordinary out of the ordinary through the use of sound. I wanted to explore some basic, everyday sound and listen back to see if any new ideas or inspirations came to mind. I recorded a few minutes of audio beside an open window, purely to listen back to and discover new thoughts on where else this could have been recorded, other than the location that it was originally. I found this to be a very useful exercise as it has made me realise that for our audio project we won't need to overcomplicate things and can instead find a very simple idea and location and experiment with transforming it into something entirely new.
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