Sound and Light project

For the completed sound and light project I'm planning on trying a lot of different things... it's been a long time since I messed around with photoshop but I'm excited to really experiment with the rhythm i can make with the photos to our sound design. When I was starting to do the sound design I was a little intimidated but when I sat down and started messing with it all it started to be really fun and I got into it, so now I have a new attitude about going into something I'm not familiar with... I think that Carolyn and I will come up with some cool ideas. I want to play around with contrasts and colors with the photos and crop certain parts of the photos..also I want to play with the rhythm in which the photos appear.

concerto di lumineso

life lighting.. basically everything in the video i posted, is how i like to explain night life in lights on the streets. The lights make the most amazing patterns and designs. when we brainstormed for that video we tried to come up with as many sources of light as we could.. then we actually went downtown to do some observing of what we should and can use.. we ended up with more than we ever thought. going into the project we figured it would mainly consists of traffic and neon signs.. but there was so much more. the reflections were incredible... they were pure beauty..something about the way a bright light can wiggle with a small ripple in the water, when we really payed attention to it.. it was like finding a rare gem. other cool things were the way we could manipulate the lights with the lenses.. by focusing and not focusing..we made the lights almost dance in some parts of our movie. the time lapses were also fun... and driving by bundles of light to make a long stretch of fuzzy brightness...the neon signs got redundant as hell..

this is a project i worked on last year with some of my friends...its theme is light. specifically the lights we find on the streets at night..

evening sun

it was around 6 when i got home today.. i have three large windows that stretch across the front of my room. by 6, the sun had lowered to an angle that threw shadows of my blinds across to the opposite of my room...the wall then became a canvas for any objects shadow that stood near the window. in between the darkness and light parallel lines i could cast a figure of different sorts. in exhaustion from a hard day's work, i danced in the shadows for a minute or two and watched my body disfigure in the bends and curves of the wall, it looked so fun and free. 

I then decided to take a picture for our project...my body stretched out on the blinds. 

About 30 minutes later, I walked into the living room where another beautiful product from the evening's descending sun appeared. there were two windows side by side, one that had the blinds completely closed and one with them pulled up to the top. this time there was a casted shadow that laid slanted and bright across the living room floor.. here i found my cat Rafael, it was like a portrait. I'm sure he had found the warmest spot to nap on the hardwood floors, he lay almost sun bathing in the thin stretched aisle of brightness, while the rest of the room sat in darkness.. most likely jealous of the warm panels on the floor...

the dim lit rooms became comfortable to me and i decided to get some writing done for a screenplay i'm writing. comfortable, because i think there's something in the way you don't need to turn on the overhead lights yet..and the whole room isn't bursting with sun. it was this middle ground of almost a golden color, soft and delicate. comfortable.

during recording light observations.. i found my favorite lighting of the day. im calling it comfort light. 

inspirational photo

inspirational photo

finding the right sound.

I learned from this assignment that a lot of the noises we gathered could double as other noises, and sound pretty cool. the one where we opened a bag of chips that was difficult to open made almost like a gun shot.. it was interesting...i learned that pouring water slowly out of a pan sounds like pee.. and that my roommate can make a lot of different sounds with his voice. the other group that we listened to had a lot of really neat sounds also.. i really liked the sound of the electric razor and the different humming from people's voices sounded like a buzzing bee. and the ambient sounds of someone taking a shower sounded like rain when it was running. im more excited to see how this turns out all together.