After working with the emotion of sadness for the first 8 experiments, I thought it would be interesting to utilise the shots from the reshoots that were directed to have a deliberate amount of sexual tension between Matt and Max. However, at this point in the experiment, I had not fixed the reshoots with wild sound yet, so I elected not to use them.

Instead, I though it would be a good idea to play a song that evoked sexual tension, and play it against a scene that was deliberately shot to be sad. If by the end I could say that the clip appears to be filmed to be sexual, than the use of music would have successfully manipulated the emotional context of the scene. If it severely contrasted, it could have it’s own cool effect, or just be one big failure.

I found the most generic ‘sensual’ sound I possible could from a royalty free website, and decided that would be the song I use.

Credit to ‘Bensound’ for the song, you can find it here: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/sexy

I would be using the non-dialogue sequence I had created earlier in experiment 5. I obviously originally edited this clip together to be exaggeratedly sad, so it would be interesting to see the contrast when the ‘sensual’ music is added.

I’ve placed the original experiment 5 ‘sad’ clip at the beginning of the video linked down below, in order to demonstrate the contrast.

Ok, the contrast with the strange sexual music was both strangely poetic and very unsettling at the same time. I thought if I could slow down the clip even more, I could make the scene even more sensual.

I found now that I slowed the ‘sensual’ song down to 89%, it times perfectly with the equal length of each cut.

In order to make the scene even more sensually intense, I decided to add a slow progressing zoom to each clip. I keyframe my changing of the scale of each clip to progress by 0.10 for each clip.

Scared and confused at what I had created, it was time to export.

The clip is linked below:

Looking back on what I’ve done. I do think there is a real credible difference when the sensual music is added. No, it’s not entirely convincing that the scene was shot to be sexual, but I think it does come reasonably close. It’s definitely hindered by the somewhat angry expressions employed by Matt, as this just clearly doesn’t work to reflect a sexual tension, more of a creepy one. In experiment 10, I’m going to work with actually manipulating the shots I do, to make the music even more emotionally impacting. I think the zooms greatly help the intensity of the scene here, as does the timing of the music with its altered speed.