For the first Film & TV 2 tutorial, we were sent off to record clips on campus. Although I started off with a fail -recording of my “ident” as “My name is Arthur Cortez and I am a Media student”, as opposed to what tute I am in- I believe that I did a manageable job of recording a variety of sounds considering that I was on a solo mission.
Upon evaluation, I recognise that my clips could be classified into two associations: Nature vs. City. Although I was recording on campus, inthe heart of Melbourne, I managed to find sounds that created the image of nature to the audience, in the form of a flowing stream (water fountain) and wild life (straining to reach birds on far-off trees). Some of the easier to capture sounds were found around the campus, such as clicking of the pedestrian crossing buttons, the flitting of the escalator, and the jugging of the city tram and its neighbouring traffic.
I think that it would make an interesting juxtaposition to use both images of calm and bustling to create the idea of transformation. To elaborate, the concept of wildlife sounds turning into the clips of the escalator (then birds) and the tram (then some larger animal), as well as the rhythm of water flow into traffic noises, proves to be a starting point for a poetic piece on modernisation and globalisation.