A short film, made for my own personal amusement, and born out of a fairly stupid gag that occured when ordering pizza a few months ago. Enjoy. =)
Friday 23 April 2010
Tuesday 13 April 2010
PRP Artefact 4 - 'The Laughing'
Here's my fourth artefact, a short scene from 'The Shining' with added sound effects.
If you've seen the film 'The Shining' before, then taking this survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FMCTPCX would help me greatly.
Don't worry if you've never seen 'The Shining' before, there's a seperate survey here - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FMZNQGN that's designed specially for you!
Enjoy =)
PRP Artefact 4 - 'The Laughing' from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.
If you've seen the film 'The Shining' before, then taking this survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FMCTPCX would help me greatly.
Don't worry if you've never seen 'The Shining' before, there's a seperate survey here - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FMZNQGN that's designed specially for you!
Enjoy =)
Tuesday 6 April 2010
PRP Ideas
I've got two more ideas lined up for my PRP artefacts, one that continues in a similiar vein to the earlier videos, and one that explores the extent of sound's abilities in film from a slightly different angle.
The wondrous 20p and the evil penny (definitely a working title, haha!) –
A guy goes for a stroll and encounters two coins on the floor. The first is accompanied by pleasant, triumphant music whilst the second is soundtracked by an ominous, menacing theme. This video and it’s questionnaire will be designed to observe the soundtrack’s ability to create character, which is quite similair to my third artefact, 'Dog Whispers', but it has the advantage of starring two inanimate objects. In 'Dog Whispers', the music for each dog and their different voices are a large part of their character, but the dialogue itself is also a big factor. Here, I think it will be easier to see the effects of the audio itself without any extraneous factors to confuse matters.
The Laugh Track idea –
This idea is to take a scene from a film that is either very melancholy, harrowing, or disturbing, but definitely not funny at all, and add canned laughter to it. I was thinking maybe the scene from ‘The Shining’ wherein Jack Nicholson first confronts his wife, wielding an axe. The aim of this is to discover whether or not the laughter of others actually influences us to laugh, and whether it’s possible to recreate this effect in film. I would definitely think that the laughter of those around us has a strong influence, but this may be more of a social effect than a physical one, and so I think it'd be interesting to see exactly how canned laughter, detached from any kind of physical presence, affects us.
The wondrous 20p and the evil penny (definitely a working title, haha!) –
A guy goes for a stroll and encounters two coins on the floor. The first is accompanied by pleasant, triumphant music whilst the second is soundtracked by an ominous, menacing theme. This video and it’s questionnaire will be designed to observe the soundtrack’s ability to create character, which is quite similair to my third artefact, 'Dog Whispers', but it has the advantage of starring two inanimate objects. In 'Dog Whispers', the music for each dog and their different voices are a large part of their character, but the dialogue itself is also a big factor. Here, I think it will be easier to see the effects of the audio itself without any extraneous factors to confuse matters.
The Laugh Track idea –
This idea is to take a scene from a film that is either very melancholy, harrowing, or disturbing, but definitely not funny at all, and add canned laughter to it. I was thinking maybe the scene from ‘The Shining’ wherein Jack Nicholson first confronts his wife, wielding an axe. The aim of this is to discover whether or not the laughter of others actually influences us to laugh, and whether it’s possible to recreate this effect in film. I would definitely think that the laughter of those around us has a strong influence, but this may be more of a social effect than a physical one, and so I think it'd be interesting to see exactly how canned laughter, detached from any kind of physical presence, affects us.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
