Photography primary research

On the photography course I'm currently doing I had to take a series of test shots, here is one inspired by the work of Colin Prior. Here I tried to capture as much of the landscape as possible as well as trying to incorporate the sky into the piece, I then edited the colours to be a little more vibrant as a lot of Colin Prior's work uses bold bright colours.

Below is a photo inspired by some of fay Godwin's work. In Fay's photography she used black and white a lot as well as capturing big sky's, Here is a photo I recently took trying to keep to her style of work.

Please see Sketchbook Pages (-) for more photographs annotated with short analysis

Experimentation more time lapse

A few more shots I have taken Inspired by Fay Godwin's photography.

Edited in Sony Vegas 10.

Just an idea.

I have Been thinking about macro photography and how it can give a whole new feel to something so simple and then started to just think about really close shots, I have some ideas for a video using this technique and have start to a water feature close up In my back garden. you can find the end product below. I have decided this piece did not work and have decided to scrap the idea.

Test shot - Primary Research

Edited - sped up and colour reworked.

I went to my first location today just to take a couple of test shots but my camera ran out of batterys as Forgot to charge them, I only ended up with around 6 minutes worth of footage before it died, but I believe this location would be great, a couple of people walked past which I feel ruins the piece but if i was to get a shot with no people walking past I believe this would be a great location for one of my exhibition pieces. - Inspired by Fay Godwin

Sound for animation experiment complete

Below you will find a piece of moving image, I have created the score for it and recorded into cubase 5 with various VSTi's, I have used notes from Christian Schuberts work to help me convey emotion, in the video towards the bottom center you will find a key and then underneath it what emotion Schubert discovered for that key.

(Please see sketchbook page 11 for write up and evaluation and page 7 in my fmp sketchbook for research)

Sound design for animation Update

I've finished my sound effects for the animation piece as shown below next I shall compose a score just to see how much it can effect the way the audience perceive a piece.

(Please see page # for write up and pages 81,82,85,86,87,92,93,94,109 in my research sketchbook for notes and research)

Animation sound Design Update

I've started to write down all the sound effects I need whilst watching the animation without sound. every time I watch it I find something else to add, I believe I'm really starting to 'create images for the ears' once I am happy with my list I shall start trying to record and create sound effects for them. here is my list so far:

Animation sound scape Update

I have posted a video just to show my progress so far on my a possible FMP project I am working on, this piece is far from finished but I will continue to post videos to track my progress whilst I work on this idea. No mixing as really been done yet, and I have done some slight panning, nothing major this will all be re-worked once the design has been finished with the score.

(Animation by Joaquin Baldwin)

I have also started to keep track of all the sounds I have used from my library which I will reference properly at a later date

Working on an animation

I've started to work on a short animation by Joaquin Baldwin for this I have started to create the sound design for this, once this is complete I shall start work on the score, so far I have Used 3 sounds, One being a hair drier, one being some glass and the other an old used air horn, I have recorded all these with a dynamic microphone via a DI (Direct input).

A while ago I started reading 'Soundscape' by the school of sound, one chapter is entitled the absence of sound by Mike Figgis, towards the end of this chapter he states that someone had always told him that you cant use silence and if you wanted silence you must use 'approximated silence with room tone' which means you still have no silence but you have the room ambience only for example, chairs squeaking, lights computers humming etc. So with taking this advice I started to add 'room tone' to my piece to do this I thought the best way to do this was to add a fan humming in the background for this I used the recording of the hair drier.

(Image of cubase, Green lines represent panning a blue represent volume)

Sound Design and score for animation

I created all the sound effects and score for this short production as well as mixing and editing, in this piece you will hear many sounds, for example, washing machines, splashing in baths, blowing down a straw into water and many more I also created a score for this recorded using Midi with a selection of VST instruments.

(please see pages 72,73,81,82,85,86,87 in my research sketchbook for notes and research)