Shooting Exercise 1 - Sense Of Space Experimental

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For this task I took it upon myself to take the task of recording sounds. One of the main locations that I went to for this task was the moor shopping centre. I chose this location because the ambience of everyone walking past and talking made the recording sound as though it is in a busy area. I learnt that sound is an important aspect of film making. You can have different sounds and still make a video seem more interesting. For example, we recorded a seemingly empty space and placed the busy shopping centre audio over it. It gives a nice contrast of quiet and busy, which could portray many different things. For example, it is similar to the short film ‘Junktopia’ where the location looks very isolated and quiet and the added sound creates an eerie feeling to the images shown to the audience. In contrast towards the end the video reveals lots of cars. Further showing contrast.

Here is a picture of one of the locations that I recorded sound for, here I chose to record the traffic and people that went past, creating an interesting sound for both reflective and contrasting pieces. 

Another thing that I learnt is that adding more than one sound to one video clip could further add some more depth the footage. For example, in our short we show a busy road with multiple cars and lorries passing, which you would believe to be a loud location. However, we added some music from a street performer to the video along with some subtle footsteps. This makes it feel as though the video could be used to follow something else to the video footage. Much like ‘Juant’ by Andrew Kotting, where they use many sounds that are recorded externally in different location to be able to tell the audience something different.

Here is the busy road: we found that for sound we could literally record anywhere, If we wanted silence we could control that in easier ways than recording video images.