Projections Of Sound On Image Response

I find it really interesting how much sound and image can affect someone's perception of a piece. In most documentaries film makers use dialogue to go over different visions, and it can give the audience a different feel than if they did it a different way. Documentaries usually put the dialogue they want over specific images to make the audience feel a certain way. Sounds can also create a very odd feel. I remember watching a film one time where various sounds were placed over images, but the sounds and images did not go together. I remember feeling really conflicted on how to react to the film because the mixture of the strange sounds and images made me feel really uncomfortable. This really shows how much sound can affect a film. Music is also a huge factor into how an audience feels about things. In my editing class we saw how different people attached different scores to their pieces. It was really interesting to see how different the piece felt with having a different type of music. One group could have a serious sounding piece so it made the film serious, but another could have funny music and the piece had a completely different feel, even though they had the same footage. I also have done a little bit of experimenting with sound myself with my experimental class last year. I loved creating an entire soundscape, then putting the image to it. I thought it was interesting trying to put image to sound, rather than sound to image. Sound can really cause a piece to feel a certain way whether that is through dialogue, sound effects, or music, it causes the piece to have a specific feel to it.

Wells Animation Response

I've always admired cell animation since I learned everything it took to make an animation like that. I have always admired the effort and work that went into animation like that, but I had never really thought of different forms of animation other than narrative and experimental. This article really opened my eyes to many different forms of animation. For me I have always loved Disney's cel animation the best of all their films. I'm definitely not as fond of the newer 3D animation style. I also love experimental film, and the idea that animation and experimental can come together is amazing. I love how music and animation can also be similar to each other. I find it extremely interesting that animation can be composed, and have a rhythm just like music does. This makes me remember one of my favorite films from Disney, Fantasia, and as I see the film now it definitely is a more experimental film than the typical narrative. The film all together has no sound, except for in between music pieces. Even as a kid I always enjoyed watching how the animation and music worked together so perfectly. I always found it fascinating that someone could animate what they heard. I feel like I could watch fantasia a million times over because I enjoy watching the combination of music and animation. Fantasia does have some narrative elements within some of the songs, but overall I really see it as more abstract animation. Many of the animations are colored, and moved in ways that match the music perfectly. It fascinates me to watch this type of animation, and I wonder if maybe I could learn to do something similar to this. I would love to be able to animate my own vision from music.

Synesthesia

This article reminded me of the Art 101 class that I took last year. We actually learned about synesthesia in the class, but I don't remember actually calling it that. I think the combined forms of art to create a certain feel is extremely interesting. In Art 101 we discussed how a painting can be a realistic portrayal of something, for example a cat, and the fur on the cat could look so realistic that it could be touched. This is a form of synesthesia, the viewer sees the art and thinks it is realistic, and therefore wants to touch it. I think it's interesting that certain forms of art can trigger those types of senses. For me music by itself often triggers visual images in my head. That’s what makes me so interested in music videos, and just putting music and visual image together in general. I definitely found it interesting that synesthesia can be found in so many different forms of art. I really think it is interesting that color and music can also be correlated. I loved reading about the organ and how the color would coordinate with the octave of the note. I can see how those two coordinate because the lighter colors would be with a higher musical note. I love that all these different art forms can come together and be compatible with each other. Synesthesia will always remain present in any form of art, and it is interesting how different viewers can also get different reactions to different forms of art.

Norman McLaren Response

The film incorporated music with visuals perfectly. The images moved perfectly in sync with the music. The color also seemed to play a large part in the film; more color was present in the faster, more chaotic parts of the film. The color seemed to increase as the music increased in complexity. I felt very chaotic at the beginning and end of the of the film, and I saw the middle as more melodic and slightly narrative. It was very interesting visually. I often had a hard time pulling out a single image, and rather saw a multitude of images working together to pull the piece together.