During this lecture we watched a clip from the movie ‘We need to talk about Kevin’ in which a woman was in the midst of a large crowd all covered in tomato and expressing feelings that resembled the liberation and freedom of giving into something or coming to acceptance of something, which I inferred by the way she lay down in the middle of quite a chaotic and messy scene, which then cuts to her being in her house alone (which is also messy, and the outside was covered in red). First, we watched the clip without sound and then with, in order to compare and to analyse what exactly the sound was adding to the clip.
We then went out in pairs with field recorders and headphones recording sounds to create our own sounds to re-sound design the scene we had watched.
Enyake and I recorded a variety of sounds with different intentions such as the close up sound of me stepping in water to layer in liquid sounding textures for the tomato scene, as well as recording toilets flushing and taps running. To create a sense of unease and disorientation in the change of scene, we also recorded the high pitched noise some of the cars and busses made when breaking on the main road, which we had planned to eq to leave the high pitched squeal isolated. There was also some building work going on that we recorded that we figure we could manipulate into some general noise for the start of the scene where there is an intense feeling. To contrast the intense scene at the start of the clip with the scene change of her in her house, we also recorded some parts in quieter areas and higher up further from any single direct sound source, to get a general ambience to use to contrast.
This task invoked some ideas of how I could use field recordings in my work subtly to also create some kinds of feelings, in the same way I did for that clip but for different intentions. It also got me thinking about how these sounds alone in the contexts that they were recorded in, had a very different meaning to if we manipulated and layered them and set them to the clip we saw, because of how certain images combined with certain sounds can create a very different feeling to either media form alone.