Week 5

This week I worked mostly on the visual as I am not sure that my approach to sound (for this project) is the right one. On Tuesday I had my little brother come in to read some excerpts from Jacobi’s ‘The Psychology of Jung’. He is possibly the worst person to do this kind of thing but I had nobody else who could come in. My reasoning being that a voice is a voice and I could at least see what I could do, effects-wise, with a human voice. I played a little but can’t feel enthusiastic about the sound at the moment. The Aural aspect is very difficult and I can’t put my finger on why that is, so instead of grinding to a halt completely I opted to work on the visual proportion of the project for the rest of the week.

I threw some of the animations together in AfterFX, which works particularly well with the shadows. I will want to process the imagery in different ways for the final animation. I would like to do more with water, maybe dropping different substances in water and also using things like glycerine and other clear fluids that have a different level of viscosity. I would like to project the images onto a surface and film that, those kinds of things, a mix of digital compositing and manipulation on top of more traditional layering techniques.

After having to step back from the sound I have found something that could be described as a working methodology. I took a break from the practical work and tried to analyse exactly what it is that is halting my progress at the moment. I figured that the aural and the visual feed off each other in a particular way. For me I need a visual aesthetic in order to imagine what tone/shape/character the sound should have. In a practical sense this means that I need to make a decision on the overall visual aesthetic before I can decide what the individual sounds (which will eventually make up the composition) will sound like. This in
turn will lead to the composition stage where the aural will lead the visual.

http://freepdfhosting.com/749cd05349.pdf

Above is a link to download a .pdf which shows a model for my working practice for the masters project.