23rd of March Practical
We often forget the importance of audio within a narrative. Having spent much of my waking life observing sound, I’m frequently frustrated by filmmakers depriving my senses. Today we were reminded that sound is something that cannot be overlooked. We learned about the different components of sound in film such as, delay, reverb, panning, looping, texture and silence… the latter, I have a particular interest in. In film, silence is often used to create tension and suspense, in podcasts, in can be seen as a time for momentarily a reflection; in art, one could consider the casting of space as silence like in Rachel Whiteread’s work.
Rachel Whiteread
One of my most favourite uses of silence in music is of a Deep Purple song entitled Child In Time. The sound moves beautifully from mayhem to sultry with a brief bar of silence being the crucial segue… and if you have an issue with rock and or roll please tune out now!
At 06:02 of this Youtube…