Fiction Adaptation Unit- Sound and Clips Workshop

We began today with a workshop designed to help us understand how to set a certain mood and atmosphere by using music in conjuction with video clips. I immediately remembered a piece of music I'd heard by an Artist called Brian Eno in the film "28 days later."
The music is a very calm piece, and in the 28 days later film the music is used with big landscape shots as the characters travel from one area to another. With this in mind, I decided to take this idea and create my own version of it.
I began by collecting video clips of big landscape shots of the planet earth. These included outer-space shots, but also shots of huge cliffs and epic desert scenery. I felt that these clips suited the music perfectly and generated a very calm, soothing atmosphere.
Creatively I think this short piece was well designed too, as it starts with an outer space shot, introducing the planet earth. It then moves onto shots of huge glaciers and ice flows, before moving on to shots which contrast completely in the form of baron desert wastelands and sandstorms.
I end the film with a time-lapse shot of the sky going from day to night and finally a shot of planet earth once again.
This was to signify the vastly different climates our planet has, and the fact that these two supremely contrasting types of atmosphere can both exist on the same planet.
The video can be viewed here:



From this entire experience, I learnt that it is quite difficult to think of video clips to go with a piece of music, and instead I feel that it would have been a lot simpler to do it the other way around and start with video clips and instead find a piece of music that would suit them.
I have also learnt the importance of selecting appropriate music for a certain scene. For example, long shots with not a lot going on would be more suited to having slow, calm music and fast paced videos with a lot of action would require fast paced music.

However, there are some instances where music that contrasts is acceptable for ironic reasons, which can sometimes create amazing effects and develop emotion.