Sound; PRACTICAL + LEARNERS RESPONSE

60 SECOND SOUND VIDEO; PARALLEL AND CONTRAPUNTAL

For this practical I partnered with Tamzin to create a montage that was 50:50 parallel and contrapuntal sound. Parallel sound is sound which fits the images on screen, we decided to go with a classic romantic ballad and images of many infamous romantic scenes from movies. Then for Contrapuntal we decided to go with a high intensity, mature scene and childish and upbeat music. The contrast creates a shock to the audience and is atypical to the conventions of crime movies.

LEARNERS RESPONSE + FEEDBACK

TEACHERS RESPONSE:

• Great selection of clips with a perfect track for parallel. Lovely pace to the editing and the clips fitted together extremely well.
• Contrapuntal is trickier - I can't decide if it works as contrapuntal or not... it's clearly not a normal action movie soundtrack but I'm not sure it takes the audience to a totally different place. One to reflect on!
• Not quite met the brief but extremely entertaining and well put together

STUDENT RESPONSE

• Parallel sound was perfectly placed - Really effective
• Good timing
• Met the brief really well
• Videos well selected
• Contrapuntal worked - gave comedic effect
• Clear switch between parallel and contrapuntal 
• Contrapuntal music timing and beat sort of fits with videos
• Contrapuntal seemed too comedic with video
• Needs to fit brief - with one soundtrack

SELF REFLECTION

WWW:

• The editing in the first half went really well and presented the understanding of parallel sound extremely well
• I really enjoyed the music choices for our scenes, there's a clear contrast in the images and sound
• We were really close to the brief time of 1 minute.

EBI:

• If we met the brief of one song, two sets of images
• Contrapuntal sound could have been more explicit and clear, it was much more ambiguous in our video
• Maybe if the second half was edited in the same way as the first, the transition would have been cleaner.

Personally, I would've liked to have had the same cinematic feel of the video as many of the others in the group had, i'd like to have also had the synergy of images to sound as Amber and Casey's parallel had and i think this could've been a more clean cut and well edited video to portray our understanding of sound.