Prompt:
Step 1 – pass through the location with a microphone and record for 10 minutes
Step 2 – Listen to the recording from step 1 and create a short list consisting of at least 40 photographs
Step 3 – Return to the initial location and shoot the list
We will then combine the photos and sound into a multimedia presentation to show the relationship between the sound and photographs.
James is very familiar with Fawkner park which he goes there every Wednesday for RMIT team, and he also thinks that it will be a place that is fairly different to Glenferrie road. The place I have chosen as ‘somewhere meaningful to me’ was Glenferrie station, especially from the station walk up to MLC. My understanding to ‘a meaningful place’ should be a place we are very familiar with, so the place we picked both me and my pair were somewhere we must go at least once a week, I can even say that I can walk with my eyes closed.
-You should list what you know, don’t know and expect to see and/or hear in your pair’s location-
Before going to Fawkner park, I have only heard that there is a park in South Melbourne called Fawkner park and then I have seen there was a sports game when I passed by the other day. What I expect to see in Fawkner Park is should be much darker than Glenferrie road because we are capturing in the night and the layers of sounds will not be as rich as Glenferrie road either because 3:30 will be the busiest time throughout the day whether I am expecting only sounds of sports game like running, whistles, ball hitting the ground etc. As the shooting will not be the first time I photograph sports game, so I am also expecting to meet some challenges when I try to capture movements and facial expressions when players are moving so fast. I was worry about this because I had a chance to take photos of indoor cricket games for past studio project briefs. All I remembered from the shooting was the players were moving too fast for me to capture their face, the space was quite limited with not much lighting. I was expecting the same situation for this shooting.
In addition, I am also expecting to see the anxious; nervous and tension on players face, either the players in the game or players still waiting for their term to join the game. I think what I will see players who are going to start the game will be doing stretching; warming up and discussing/ planning about today’s games besides the oval.
-Linking to the Readings-
After reading the ‘Field Recording as Sonic Journalism’ and ‘Listening, Meaning and Power’ from week three, I was more curious about how might Glenferrie rd ‘sounds’ like at its busiest time, and how sports game ‘sounds’ like in an open place. Before continue to finish the readings, I listened to ‘Starry Night’ by Mazen Kerbaj without any background information or knowledge I listened to it for the first time. I can paint the picture of what is happening in the recording, and I can even feel the emotion of the recorder. I was amazed to experience the power of sound, and I guess what I got out of this week’s sound experience is that: There are a lot of forms of noticing, and the sound is one of them. Without image showing the audio allows the audience to paint the picture even more emotionally.