I have chosen this image to use for my experimental sound piece:
'Cold Dark Matter'
I chose this because I could immediately picture the kinds of sounds that would resonate well with it. I immediately thought, metallic industrial sounds. I also imaged echoing, hollow, dark sounds that are drawn out. Obviously also, I thought of there being an explosion sound since the installation art in the photo mimics an explosion of items (mainly metallic industrial and wooden items).
Words describing this photo: cold hollow dark chaos trapped vacuum clinical white bare echo shadows industrial metallic void nothingness matter sharp disorder
Recording + Editing days: 25th February 26th February 27th February 28th February POST-RECORDING: I have recorded most of my sounds in my house, focusing on sounds which have a metallic, industrial like quality to them such as, pots/pans hitting each other, oven door being slammed shut, microwave door being slammed shut, the sound of the hob turning on, the sound of extractor fan, a dryer on strong power, vacuum cleaner on different settings, scraping of chairs and tables on the floor etc. I imported them all into a media folder within a folder called EVIE EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, and listened to all of them back, so that I could rename them into things I could easily find editing and creating in Adobe Audition.
My first initial concept is looking at the dynamics of a toxic, intense love between two people. I would have a male with long hair and a female with long black hair. I want to set it outside, firstly, because, for my single portrait project, I decided to shoot in a studio where it was fairly easy to achieve the correct exposure, therefore, I would like to challenge myself by trying to shoot in natural light. Secondly, because I envisage the couple together in touch with nature in a grassy field or by a stream in a forest. I know a place in mind which has all of these different nature forms - Farnham Park. The aesthetics I want to create involve making the people look extremely cold, with blotchy cold purple/blue skin. As in the photos below, the people look emasculated, vulnerable, delicate and weak.
As for one of the images of the couple, I was thinking of a shot like this, which symbolises how they are intertwined with each other, blinded and entangled together. Visually, I think this image is stunning, with the cold icy colours contrasting with the darkness of the hair. Also with the fact that they are both naked, therefore in their most helpless, vulnerable, exposed states.
Here is a link to my pinterest board which explores my concept for the portrait series through images which either aesthetically or symbolically portray in a way that is relevant to my concept: https://pin.it/6eam4276zpyhgd
Since Ravinn was the producer of this documentary, she produced the entire production pack which includes primarily risk assessments, actor release forms, permission to film on location forms, call sheets etc.
Here is the animation which will be in the documentary, made by Heather in our group. It has taken quite a while to get this animation and finally the night before the screening, I have got it from her. Initially we wanted it to last a minute long and to be in the colours of red and blue (therefore the title says 'version one') but since it has taken Heather this long to create this (right up until the night before the final screening), we have decided it's good enough as it is and we will keep it like this.
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Since I am the editor and sound editor for this documentary, I have found a lot of music that I really like and think would really go well with some of the scenes. I am really influenced by the TV shows 'The Clique', 'Kiss Me First' and 'Skins', they are all created by the same people, and the music composer is the same for all of them, Segal (Matthew Simpson). After going to a concert 2 months ago, there is also another artist who I would really like to use music from, they are called Kllo. I got the chance to meet and speak to them after the concert and also with their manager so that night I asked whether I would be able to use Kllo's music, they said send me an email and that we could arrange something. So to follow up on what was said I emailed the manager asking about this but they never got back to me. Kllo - Dissolve ...
... Since Kllo's manager never got back to me, I decided to just stick with the idea of using Kiasmos' and Segal's music in the documentary, so I emailed each of their managers with this email template:
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... Kllo's manager never emailed me back. However, Segal emailed back surprisingly soon and short notice with this:
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... Kiasmos' manager said I should get in contact with the record label directly so I sent another email to the record label and they responded back quite quickly saying they are willing to issue a gratis license for the usage if it was for educational purposes only but if I ever wanted to publish the documentary to film festivals or online I will need to pay a license fee.
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