For the
experimental film, I was given the crew position of Sound. I was excited for
it, though I didn’t have much experience in putting a soundtrack together, and
just had fun collecting sounds, mixing them, and juxtaposing them (while
staying within the theme). This editing process was different than video, which
allows me to see in some sense what the product will be like as I’m editing.
With sound, however, you can move things around, but you have to play it to get
a sense for what it’s going to be. Furthermore, the experience of layering was
far more prominent in sound than it would have been for me in video. Although
in video you can do superimposition, with sound I was able to deal with layer
upon layer (at the densest, I had 5 tracks playing at one time). Mixing natural
sounds and mechanical ones was another interesting factor, since I combined
collected and pre-recorded natural sounds with synthetic ones I created in
Garageband.
My Life as a Zucchini The first event we went to at Cucalorus was a 10:45 am showing of My Life as a Zucchini , a French stop motion animation, which was shown in Thalian Main Theater. The theater itself was incredibly striking, with the red-velvet covered seats, antique furniture, and colorful embellishments around the stage itself, such as the cherub painting on its ceiling. It made it so that the screening was more than the film itself; it was an experience that as a result heightened the respect for the film by nature of its surroundings. If we’d walked into a barren garage filled with metal fold-up chairs, we still would have appreciated the film, but I don’t think to the complete effect would have been the same at all. What I liked most about My Life as a Zucchini is that it is another step forward for animation as a mode for serious content, since it’s a medium that, in my experience, isn’t taken seriously at all by the general population (an animated film equals a kid film...
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