Study Task 5 - Sound Study

'La Chine a L'Honneur' (Animated short)

Created by students at the 'Gobelins' School of Visual Communication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRGr6VKkj8


The sound in this is subtle but very effective in completing the atmosphere the visuals establish so well. As the various characters wake up and start their day the sound increases and gradually swells in reflection of this. It's very understated but fits in the mundane events being depicted in a very sympathetic way. I find the result to be very human and convincing.  I don't think the soundtrack I use will be as busy as this one but I have similar intentions in terms of creating an ambience, perhaps akin to the stillness heard at the beginning of this.

'Hors Champ' (Animated short)

Created by students at the 'Gobelins' School of Visual Communication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oC8GbblIBk


What I take mainly from this is the sort of muted and muffled quality of the sound. I think I want to use music in my sting, but have an underlying soundtrack of sort of white noise or strange muffled sounds like the ones in this (I think there's also a sort clicking sound from an old camera). I think this sort of thing will accentuate the stillness and dark ambience I want to create for my sting.


On another note, it's not an animation, but the film 'Simple Men' (directed by Hal Hartley) is the perfect example of the type of atmosphere I want to create and the way he uses music is the sort of thing I will try and do, sort of weirdly melancholy interruptions during conversations (not that I'll have any conversations in my sting).