Development Post #2

After discussing with group member with the help of the tutor, our group fleshed out the idea of our project.

The collection of  video fragments in our project responds to the idea/question of  how does music/sound change audiences’ interpretation of a neutral video, or what is the effect of combing different genre/era music with the same content video. The project consists of 2 videos with the same content (with one silent and the other one with natural sound of recorded image) and 6 pieces music.

In detail,

the content of the video is to make a montage of the city of Melbourne, trying to capture as many different parts of the city as possible, such as parks, inner city, shops, cafes etc. It is similar to an excerpt from Marker’s Sunless on Criterion Collection shown on class last week, which is a free-form travelogue in Japan.

(Screenshots of Marker’s Sunless on Criterion Collection)

However, instead of doing a voiceover relating to the video content, we decided to explore the relationship of sound and visual using music, which is considered as a musical version of Kuleshov effect test in a way.

The purpose of this is to see the effects produced by their different combination.

Here is a list of potential genre/era of music:

(Screenshot of group messenger sent by group member Darcy)

However, it will be narrowed down depending on what is achievable in the next couple of weeks.

Our project also enables interactivity. It is stated that “Even in interactive formats, although the user may choose how he or she navigates and orders video segments” (Dovey & Rose, 2012). Our project allows the audience to choose and combine the different music with the same video to produce their own interoperation, and discover effects. It relates to the statement of Dovey & Rose (2012) in a musical way.