Paste the link here from your version of the abstract editing exercise.
Then reflect on the whole process – Consider: the quality and usability of your recordings; the effect of layering and juxtaposition of both the audio and the video and; the things you learnt from working with this kind of audio and video.
The whole process of the abstract editing exercise was really in the hands of the usability of the recordings, which when completing with no real objective in mind can sometimes turn out a little unusable. Venturing out with no real idea on what you want to achieve it’s hard to try and visualise the recordings you’re going to get – however I believe this process was to make as document the real, the things we see and hear every day but have blocked out of our consciousness and re-appropriate that into something where we do notice it, therefore the recordings would influence the final product. I found the audio recordings Mardy and I took really interesting, as we went into an elevator and just recorded, the sound of people shuffling in the space, the automatic voice identifying each floor, the awkward silence and the sudden music. However the video recordings I took the week after weren’t as engaging, I only ended up using one of the shots we filmed and sourced the remainder from other groups on the server. In the development of the piece I didn’t want to fiddle with the actual audio too much, but more so appropriate the images to the organic sound we recorded. Therefore I found myself harvesting from a bank of footage, and trying to match it all together. I used the exercise mainly to re-familiarise myself with Adobe Premiere, layering audio and splitting it up to repeat certain sounds, such as the elevator floor select button, and to play with different visual effects, like making the image black and white when the card access sound in the elevator noise was heard. Through this editing I tried to relate the images to an elevator, where the mundane sound of the floor button makes the world loose the vibrancy that colour ensues. For me, this was the most interesting part of this whole exercise, trying to place the pieces of the puzzle together and create relationships between unrelated sound and images, which re-instated the importance of the quality of the recordings and how it can impact how you’ll put the whole piece together.