Mormon Monday

seeing sound

Just read the article by Chion, pretty insightful stuff. In my sound recording class, we have listened to a scene from a film with all of the some 6 tracks on solo. without them, the cuts are very apparent, and some tracks like the ambient track hid the cuts better than the dialog track. the follied sound effects seem out of place and at wrong levels when played by themselves. but all together the scene flowed well with help from the dialog.

another thing that helped me be more aware of sounds like what Chion is talking about is the sound logs and recordings that we did in Shannon's experimental class. It definitely helped me listen better.

by the looks of this reading, Im guessing we are doing some sort of sound scape for the next assignment... maybe it was said in class already. Thursday afternoon, I ate some old fish and spent several minutes of class throwing it up in the bathroom ...badnews.

the Good Earth

Ive past this building driving several times and always wanted to look it over up close. From 40, you can barely see it through the mess of vines and trees. My girlfriend Annie and I went to get some shots of the building.
I made some sounds in REASON.
here it is.

Sheena is a Pole Dancer

this is an animation my girlfriend Annie and I made last year. We had a barbie with no cloths, so the possibilities were limited. She did the G.I. Joe's voice, and I the dancer.



song by fischerspooner

Theory of Animation

Starting at the bottom, because its the most fresh in my mind. I just watched "a colour box" it was definitely not the "orthodox" animation that the reading described. There seemed to be no narrative, or characters. However, the advertisement aspect of it is very interesting.

Regarding Orthodox animation, and the common goal of hiding the materiality of the art is fascinating to me. I imagine that many kids today...as they watch a cell animated movie, dont even think about the fact that those images were drawn...and each one. Even the older aged may not comprehend. I am always amazed and curious about how the amount of time it must take for the team of animators to animate an feature length and how much another person added to the team could detract from that time.

anyway, here is the link to Len Lye's "a colour box"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaYi6FlB4cw

or search on youtube

Transfer

On the east coast, in North Carolina, in Luetze Hall, on the desk where we transfered magazine images to film. The tape did not stick all the way to the film, this caused problems on the reel.

the images were way cool
and went by very fast
Magazine transfer was fun to do as a class.

eye

This is a still from our class video... just a little creepy.

Its an eye, for those who dont see it.