1D Response and Self-Portrait Pitch

Response to 1D:

I didn’t learn as much about sound design with 1D as I did with 1B, but I did learn about putting images to a soundscape. It was fun to try to find the photos that fit the tone of the soundscape, or to manipulate them in a way that made them fit. Sometimes, I found it difficult to establish an effective rhythm with the images that didn’t follow the exact rhythm of the soundscape but synced up with it well. It was a challenge not being able to alter the soundscape in any way, but it forced us to be more creative with the way we arranged and edited the images.

Self-portrait idea:

For my self-portrait, I want to use editing and camera techniques to show contrast between my “outer self,” or what everyone sees when they look at me (my surface level identity), and my “inner self,” or what I feel is the deeper, more complex part of my identity. I’m playing with the idea of using imagery of a closed-up flower being pulled open interspersed throughout my film to emphasize the idea of “revealing.” Technically, I want to focus on fluid camera and body movements and fluid motions through a variety of physical spaces, similar to the spatial discontinuity in many of Maya Deren’s films. I also want to use different shot scales to emphasize the difference between my “outer self” and “inner self” by shooting my “outer self” generally in long shots (the viewer is distanced from me) and my “inner self” in close-ups (the viewer is given a closer, more detailed look at who I am on the inside). I’m still contemplating what I want to do for my film’s sound, but I think I want to make a minimalist soundscape that incorporates some mellow clarinet sounds (not a piece of music, but just random sounds or notes) that I will record myself playing.