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.

Project 3 Statement

Scarlett Correa

Sound project

Due: 10/16/13

Artist Statement

     The premise of my concept, after many reevaluations, was to create a video based on sounds that many people, including me, find frustrating. The sounds I focused on are all incredibly bothersome to me: heavy breathing, vibrating alarm clocks, sniffles, coughing, loud chewing, and scratching, recorded with the help of my roommates who are incredibly loud when eating no matter what they do.

     In order to emphasize how these sounds can elevate blood pressure, I began the video with the softest sounds - breathing - so the audience would have to strain to listen at first. I then increased the intensity and frequency of the noises throughout the video. All layered over each other, they should grate the audience's nerves by the end of the three minutes.

alice on strings: artist statement

alice on strings takes Disney's 1951 animated classic Alice and Wonderland, and replaces its sound with the sound of a sole violin. Every thud, firework, tea kettle, and lyrical passage originate from my violin. The visuals and sound work together to produce a "version" of reality that is similar to the realm we experience, but with an unexpected twist of fantasy.  While Alice is a believable child character, the animals sing, she grows and shrinks based on what she consumes, and the landscapes become "curioser and curioser.”  The sound shares a similar function, because the viewer will identify with the sounds in the scenes, only to discover the multitude of sounds came from a single source. Alice in Wonderland is a highly imaginative literary and artistic work, so it seemed the appropriate visual backdrop for a sound experiment, where I don’t try to trick or suspend the viewer, but recreate Alice’s original soundtrack.  The visual landscapes and auditory soundscapes are fantastical, allowing the viewer to question whether this dimension is tangible with one’s reality, and more specifically, the validity and believability of sounds’ sources.  Since the violin is being used in a non-traditional way to imitate everyday sounds, the goal is to surprise the viewer that thinks a firecracker is the only thing that can make a firecracker sound, or a clock’s gears are the only things that cause it to tick.  Some of the sounds in alice on strings are realistic imitations while others are abstracted, such as the bird call, due to the medium and my ability (or inability) to produce an accurate sound.  This mix of narrative versus lyrical representation of sound showcases the tonal and textural range of the violin, and adding interest to the work.  I found my video not only mimicked recognizable sounds, but also the history of music.  In the beginning, the breeze is a calming harmonic chord, which represents music’s earliest interest in creating melody and a transcendent experience using sounds unlike those heard in everyday settings.  As the video progressed, the length of the sound files got progressively shorter.  Arguably, towards the end, the video sounds emptier.  However, the middle and ending were the hardest and most time consuming to create because the video clips required sounds that were more percussive, more relatable to our everyday lives.  This represents modern and contemporary music, which often sounds odd because it is breaking away from “pretty” and “sensible” to create something different for a new generation.  For the latter portion of the video, though it sounds emptier, I had up to five or six layers of sound accompanying the action.

Project 3 Artist Statement/ Update

This project proved a lot... more conceptual than I originally realized. Obviously every project needs a centralized concept, but I feel this project is more dependent on that. Just me? Ok.
To update, I took a lot, if not all, of the criticism and suggestion you guys gave me at our proposal meeting, and incorporated them into my project. First and foremost I changed from showing an array of emotions to simply just one: happiness. I realized that to show a lot of emotions and edit them to coincides with each other would be a difficult task to complete especially within this time frame. So I took happiness, and focused in on one subject area: a group of girls laughing. If you've ever met or been a girl, you can concur with me that they [sorry we] are complex individuals, especially with our emotions. If you remember I wanted to initially show the attachment we have with sound and emotions, now, using a suggestion, I want to play with their dissonance. I'm going to film the girls sitting down, eating playing, essentially in a comfortable environment, laughing. But just because a girl is laughing on the outside, doesn't mean she's happy. Focusing in on each girl, I will record using just audio her true innermost feelings.

In-Progress Report

I've made some adjustments to my original theme of focusing on sounds that people make that can be frustrating or unnerving and moved on to include some common environmental sounds that are bothersome. Two that are pertinent to me specifically are the toilet tank making that hissing/whispering sound, and the shower head which NEVER stops dripping no matter what.

So far the sound has been pretty clear even though I'm using an earphone mic but everything is coming together a lot more quickly and smoothly than I thought it would!