Sunday, 19 January 2014

Directions Unit- Sound Piece Completion.

Below is my semi-completed Sound-Piece for Gregory Crewdson's photograph; "House Fire."
I use the term "Semi-completed" because I am still undecided about whether or not I would like to have the video zoom into certain parts of the photograph as sounds are played.
In the sound-piece, I tell the story of a character trespassing onto the area the house in the photograph is situated, and then smashing the houses window before climbing inside. Once inside, the person begins to walk around on the houses wooden floor before knocking a can of something over.
The sound of the can falling over alerts a dog to the character's presense, and the dog is about to attack the character before being shot by the character. As the dog lays dying and whimpering, the character continues to walk around the house- this time at a faster pace before stopping to unscrew the lid of a can of petrol the character was carrying with them.
The character then proceeds to pour the petrol all over the area before taking out a match striking it. The character then ignites the petrol, and the sound-piece ends with the sound of a fire beginning, with flames and the crackling of burning wood. I am very happy with the way this sound-piece is going so far, and I am especially happy with the small story I have created to go along with the photograph, which explains why the fire in the house started in the first place.
One thing I have noticed however is that I did not use any elements from the right of the photograph, namely the people standing watching the fire from the train tracks. My original idea was the carry on the sound-piece by having the sounds of sirens approaching once the fire had been lit, as well as applying crowd noises and the sounds of fire-hoses dousing the fire, but I chose not to do this as I wanted the main focus of the sound-piece to be why the fire started, as opposed to what happened after the fire had been lit.

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