With the delayed arrival of my copy of Schion's Audio Vision from the previous weekend I have managed to get stuck in! The foreword is really good, especially with how it conveys the relationship between sight and sound, and with upon further reading how sound can be viewed as the quintessential anchor in which films derive their context/meaning. Started producing sketches and ideas for the co-workers short. My idea for approaching this is to use an exclusively musical soundtrack. Examples I'm thinking of utilising in my silence essay;
No Country for Old Men
Spider-Man 2
Other effective examples include; Leon: The Professional, Se7en, Kingdom of Heaven and Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.
Well the great and epic quest to find a suitable platform for my video editing, and on the cheap has found me in the form of Blender. Although with a pretty intimidating UI at first glance, it is truly a very powerful and capable tool with a variety of different applications.
Trying to get something merely as simple as this, took more than eight hours, with seven different renders...
I haven't even scratched the surface.
With regards to animation, a funny example of a CGI one I had seen previously and forgotten about named "Dubstep Dispute";
A nice hybrid piece of music and sound effects that are synchronized nicely with the animation, where the music is used to convey language during the robot's "dispute". A lot of nice touches to highlight their digital nature, and the blackout for the subdrop.
Christopher Drake
Safe to say upon watching numerous titles from the DC Animated Universe that Christopher Drake has become my favorite animation composer. Particular highlights include; Justice League: Doom, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Green Lantern: Emerald Knights.
