The Completed Sound and Light Project

For the final part of this project my group and I took the sound scape, "a hot and dusty morning," that was created by another group and manipulated images to go along with the audio. The images were complied by the entire class and made into a "library". Each group took one roll of realistic photos and one roll of experimental photos. If the first roll of experimental was not bracketed then it had to be redone creating two rolls of experimental which actually only added to our library anyways.

Once the library was complied into our project, my group (Colleen, Amy, and myself) went through the photographs picking out the ones that we thought would work nicely with our soundscape to create a eerie and somewhat uncomfortable short. After picking out the photos we wanted, we began to place them based on the sounds. Basically we listened to the section of the soundscape, thought about how it made the audience feel, compared that to how WE wanted the audience to feel and chose the photo that would best convey those feelings and emotions with the assistance of the audio. Once we had a bit of an 'outline' we started to manipulate the images. We changed the contrast, cropped them, reduced or increased the scale, moved the center point, played with effects that would "distort" or "stretch" the photos, and added a few silly video effects just for good measure! We wanted the piece to encompass emotions of morbidity and give the feeling of being very eerie so some images we simply enhanced the contrast and left it still, which can also be uncomfortable.

Overall, I was happy with my groups work. I allowed Colleen and Amy to do most of the driving and decision making so that they could get more hands on time with FCP but chimed in when necessary. They did a great job and hopefully feel more comfortable with FCP now!

I thought it was very interesting seeing everyones projects. Although we all had the same library of sounds and images, each project was very different and had each owns style incorporated into it. Jose made a comment in class that I thought was completely dead on and want to reiterate his point. It was absolutely amazing how different the soundscapes where once the images were added. The sounds really changed and, shannon is going to hate this but, they told completely different stories once the visual aspect was added on. It was a very interesting process to see first hand!