The sound piece that I had chosen, was a content-rich work that would be called as a mixture of realities and fictions, which contains quite an amount of fancy sound effects, such as pitch shifting and some weird monster roaring sound, and sounds from different spaces, that first interested me, then pulled me in it (especially the ‘reversing’). Thus, I decided to respond to it by using a clip that has a story (I guess it has?), but also included a massive amount of visual effects, mainly speed ramping, that aiming to provide audiences a both audio and visual immersive experience.
Here’re some of the references that I think it looks pretty cool. Their pace is relatively fast, with having complicated camera movements and flashing transitions which could make us easily immersed in.
Basically, what I have done would be creating scenes by following the rhythms and beats of the audio-piece, making transitions when an apparent sound effect has emerged, and keeping its pace as consistent as the audio. For example, having a zooming transition while the ‘ding’ sound from tram had just came up (1:11). As well as, the basic concept would be matching sounds and visions by finding places and objects that similar as the voice came from (e.g. water flowing sound & toilet/fountain as Dan’s suggestion).
In my work, the part that I feel the most immersive would be the Reversing Animation while the reversing sound had shown up, which was inspired by one of the reference videos, the Let’t Go series (2:00-2:10), that it had blended the time and space of various locations where scenes was moving fast forward and changing simultaneously, made me immediately sense that it would look extremely awesome if I had applied these kind of tricks to my video (which I finally did!). Likewise, the speedy pacing of the video could lead audiences to be 100% focused while enjoying it, cause it’s the nature of human, that all of us tend to be afraid of missing something that looks vital or amazing.
Also, as I mentioned, this clip had involved a story in some way: A student who is daydreaming while taking the lift on campus. Based on this idea, I had used lighting and color grading to differentiate between the realistic and the imaginary, where the exposure of dreaming scenes would be higher, and relatively light blue and pink in terms of tone. As well as, a flashing-like transition between these two spectacles at the beginning and the end of the video.
Yet, I had faced some obstacles while creating this work as well, the most significant one would be the planning. Since this work has quite a lot zooming and speed transitions, I have to decide what I’m going to shoot in detail, however, the planning my first shooting was not that ’detail’ enough, that I recognised I have to pan/tilt/zoom the camera after taking each footage, but I had done these ‘transition’ aimlessly, that sometimes I couldn’t even find another one to replace on what I considered as failed shot (zooming to fast, shaky, etc.), which taught me a lesson of how the ‘planning stage’ would be that much more important in creating this kind of fast pacing artworks.
So… Let’s get prepared to be immersed~
Reference
The audio piece by Ed Hirst
Beautiful Destinations. (2017, July 6). Let’s Go – Hong Kong. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4a6tBiWGk
Taipei City Government. (2017, May 25). TAIPEI IN MOTION. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GsKWGHHigs
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