PRP Artefact 6 - Terrifying Telepathy

Here's my sixth (and probably final) PRP artefact, a short film entitled Terrifying Telepathy.

PRP Artefact 6 - Terrifying Telepathy from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

Once again, after watching if you could fill out this survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YZ3SZRY that'd be grand. Cheers!

PRP 5 - Pork Peril (Speech & Silence)

Here's my fifth PRP artefact, a short film entitled 'Pork Peril' shown in two different styles.



If after watching the film, you could fill out this survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LFQBVFR it would be a great help. Thanks very much!

PRP Artefact 4 - 'The Laughing'

Here's my fourth artefact, a short scene from 'The Shining' with added sound effects.

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 =)

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.

PRP Artefact 3 - 'Dog Whispers'

Here's my third artefact, a short film entitled 'Dog Whispers'. If after watching it, you could fill out this short survey, it would be much appreciated! Enjoy -

PRP Artefact 2 - The Wire Montage

Here's my second PRP artefact, experimenting with how different music can change the mood and feel of a montage. If after watching the clip, you could fill out this survey - Click here to take survey it would help me out. Cheers!
The video consists of an opening montage taken from 'The Wire', with 4 different soundtracks. The songs are Johnny Cash - Walk The Line, Cephalic Carnage - Litany Of Failure, Bob Marley - Judge Not, and the Melvins - Bar-X The Rocking M, in that order. Enjoy.

PRP Artefact 2 from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

I tried out loads of different songs over the top of this footage, and interestingly enough nearly all of them seemed to sync up really well (the bit where Herc snatches the tape in Clip B is crazy). This is probably because the footage was all edited with music in mind, which means even songs with only vaguely similar tempos still seem to fit well over the top.

Artefact 1 - Fridge Inspection Survey

Here is the first of my PRP artefacts, a short film called Fridge Inspection with two different edits, the only difference between the two being the soundtrack.
If you could watch both these films (which will take about 2 minutes) and then fill out this short survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WPP9MZS (which will take about 2 minutes too, if that!) it would help me out a lot. Thanks!

Fridge Inspection A -


Fridge Inspection B -

Fridge Inspection!

Here's a rough edit for my first PRP artefact. I'm gonna do two more edits with different sound, a creepy one and a funnier one. Enjoy!



There are a couple of sound issues I need to sort out, all the shots from inside the fridge have loads of that fridge hum in the background, haha, so there's a bit of work to be done on it yet, especially before applying the soundtracks.