Recipe：
Question：
If the video has background music, will the theme be highlighted? Or will it leave a deeper impression on the audience?
For the last experiment, I feel it is the simplest one of the three videos as it includes fewest steps. And it is the one that I am most interested in. I showed special interest in all kinds of background music in all TV dramas, movies and animations. I know that if the music is properly combined into clips, it can deepen the appealing of plots. Thus, I try to integrate music. When a video without narration is clipped simple video, does the addition of background achieve the same effect?
Ingredients:
Premiere
Method：
Step 1: to re-edit the previous video and add background music
Step 2: to invite 5 people to visit to compare and comment
I have a question: what are differences between the video with background music and the one without background music? Which one leaves a deeper impression on you? Which one better represents the theme?
https://vimeo.com/233697916
Reflection：
Considering the 5 audiences and my definition of the theme of the previous two videos? I chose to add cheerful background music. The original video looked incoherent. It made me feel something was missing. After the music was added, it was still worse than the second one. All feedbacks were similar, saying that music better embodied the theme and made them feel happier. I think background music has been the best answer to my question, which highlights and extends the theme of the video and deepens the feeling of the audience.
The technique, Montage, mentioned by Frankham：
“As Ashton points out, for Deleuze montage:
includes framing (the choice of the image border and what is seen or even heard and what is not), composition (the arrangement of elements within the frame), and camera movement, as well as editing, including sound editing and mixing. Along these lines, lighting, various uses of focus, movement within the frame, movement of the frame, even performance (gestures, expressions, dialogue) can all limit or highlight elements (or images) of a film. (2008 para. 9)”
After shooting is completed, the editors use the video and audio recordings to blend the segments together.
Another filming example that I read was Koyaanisqatsi. A film does not have narration. It just uses different views and solemn music to express the central idea to us. And, the same idea was also found in the process of reading Panse and Ivens.
“In the resulting film, the sounds and images are framed and composed and often sounds from different sources are added. When we watch the product of this process, we see different assemblages to those perceived at the time by the filmmaker. Thought is produced in the process of generating these images. “
The avant-garde movie also emphasizes on the sound and rhythm, which is why these images of nature could be presented to the audiences with full of the life and infections.
In sum, my own ideas, feedbacks from 5 persons and reading experience all indicate how important music is to a video. It can better reflect theme and emotion of a video or movie, arouse audience’s more imagination for the video and enables everyone to develop different feeling on the same video or movie. In my opinion, the video like that is a truly good video.
Actually, the whole video has some advantages. For example, the shooting quality was not good enough. Since I used Handycam, which does not have a tripod, the screen shook sometimes. And, I did not use DSLR for shooting, which caused low pixels. Furthermore, close-up scenes, e.g., flowers and grasses, could not be focused. If the focus could be adjusted, it allowed people to notice what you intended them to know, instead of presenting a wide scope of perspective.