APD week 6 - play and sound

Theme:

play and sound

Here is the link of my work.

https://vimeo.com/539494460

Context:

I actually thought of dozens of ideas during the class, cause there are a lot of inspirations, and I remember a cute animation made by Uyen that she recorded the sound outside randomly, and then created a short animation based on it, this work inspired me a lot, it's quite interesting that in our daliy lives, we actually did not notice these environment sounds, but they can be the main parts of an animation work.

Also, I think that the design of the sound do play an important role in filmmaking or related works, I find an interesting animation which is about three mountains, one plot in this work is that when the little mountain picked up the seed in the rain, it made a sound of instrument, it's a kind of symbolism that music symbolize the beauty of nature (from the seed) with the sound of musical instruments. In this work, sound no longer plays a background role. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppMXtTbNnCs

I also remember an example in the class which named Begone Dull Care made by Norman McLaren in 1949, it's like a kind of experimental animation or a motion graphic based on the rhythm of the sound, the objects in the animation moves with the change of the sound.

These are all good inspirations which make me have a direction on my own work - I'm going to do a short animation based on sound.

Method:

How about change the original sound of the objects?

I started with this idea, then I consider that I can do anything based on it, such as based on symphony, I can make a animation that more and more people appears in the shot and talk loudly, everyone as an instrument plays a role in the symphony, through this I want to express both the joy of life and the intensive noise, I finally complete a simple one which just emphasize the noise of the people --- there is a kind of person around us always make noises that is difficult for us to bear with.

I download the free sound track online, which are the sound of instruments, one is guitar pitch pipe and another is glass harp, both of them have a high pitch that make people feel uncomfortable, I showed the vibration of the vocal cords in the animation when the sound rang, it's also a bit like the Bel canto perform but the sound is not such beautiful like that. At last, I tried to make it funny and also it reflect the reaction of people when hearing this kind of noise.

Here is the website where I download the sound resources. https://freesound.org/search/?q=instrument&page=1#sound

Response:

In this work, I also combine the principle of the sound --- vibration, so as you can see the vibration of the vocal cords, which has the same principle as the vibration of other objects, by regarding it as a common point, I can connect it with any sound that can be made insstead of its own sound.

Reflection:

At very beginning, I was also struggling with what I should do as usual, after watching a lot of great works which stimulated me a lot, I finished this work. This work lets me have a fun on playing with sound in making animation, although it is a simple one, based on this idea, I can add more elements in the future's work in order to achieve the original thought I had, it's quite interesting when change the original sound of the objects(people, animals...) into other total different sound, I just can not help think divergently when came up with one idea.