Critique Response

I really enjoyed critique. Everyone's work is starting to grow. I also enjoyed how each person took a different route with this project. Overall I think my feedback was accurate. I wish I could have stuck with my original plan for my work but I still used what I had to go with my split screen and overlapping sounds. I may take the advise and show all the sounds overlapping in the beginning of the video. I'm still not sure because I'm going to go a different route when I redo my video so depending on exactly what I do will decide what effects I will use. I'm leaning toward using sounds that we all hear everyday but they flow differently when overlapped. I don't think I will attempt to record my family again, instead I will record my friends. With changing things so that it is not so personal it will help me be able to record my friends and some of the "college kid" sounds we make. It will also help the viewer be able to relate more to the sounds they hear.

Project 4 - Sound

Artist Statement

I explored the idea of overlapping sounds. I showed different clips and pieces of the sounds that I heard and made throughout the day while at home. It would be kind of like a montage/time lapse sort of video because it would be everything I heard throughout the day except it is shortened into one video. I would try to show more than one video at the same time, including all the sounds from each video playing at the same time also. You will see up to 4 scenes being shown at once and you will also here those sounds that relate to the scenes. I'm hoping it will turn out to be like a collage of sounds/clips that combine and flow together. I'm also hoping the viewer can relate to some of the average sounds. These normal sounds when combined create rhythm and are turned into one extraordinary piece of work. At some point I made all the videos to stop and just have the overlapping sounds. I will also be playing the single sounds with a blank screen so the viewer can know how to relate the sound with a visual.

I had a lot of issues with this project. First I lost a large portion of my sounds, I think it was deleted by someone who did not want me to record them. The biggest event that happened when I was home was the crab fry and fish boil and it had A LOT of sounds I planned to use. With it being gone I had to just worked with the sound I had and focused on the sounds of coming home and then the sounds of being home. I hope I can make lots of improvements in the week we are aloud corrections.

Artist Statement

Fo this project my primary concept was based around mother-daughter relationships and the harsh conversations that may occur within these relationships. At the start of this project I wanted to use kitchen sounds and evolve form that but instead of primarily using kitchen sounds I chose to use snippets of common phrases amongst mother-daughter conversations along with the kitchen sounds in the background. I chose to use repetition for these sounds. The associated footage with the sound shoes different mothers and daughters in conversation and how they interact with one another. I chose to use different video footage to show that although the environment and people may change most of the conversation tends to stay the same. The reason for keeping kitchen sounds in the background is to give to the idea that a woman's domain is supposedly the kitchen and this place typically helps form the mother-daughter relationship. The video starts out calm but quickly and abruptly changes. I chose to use the 50's TV filter over the video to give a home video type of feel to seem as though viewers were actually looking the mothers and daughters having a conversation.