Post Production December 11 2024

Sound, Special Effects, Multi screen works

 SOUND DESIGN EXAMPLES

• Rouge (Red) (1994) dir  Krzysztof Kieslowski   47:10 - 53:38
With each scene change there is a different background sound. Each location has its own 'presence'.

MULTI-CHANNEL WORKS

• Candice Breitz Factum (2010)

Post Production December 18th 2024

MULTI-CHANNEL / MULIT-IMAGE WORKS

• Zbig Rybczynski New Book (1975) <Shield SSD>
    Zbig's 9-screen masterpiece 

        Tango (1981) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27z7oLQb3o>                                                     (short film academy award) 

        Steps (1987) <Shield SSD>                                                                                                 US tourists vat celebrated Steps sequence from Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925)

• Isaac Julien Paradis Omeros (2002) 
      Isaac Julien's 3-channel tour-de-force  <Shield SSD> 

• Pat O'Neill Trouble in the Image (1996)

A founding father of Los Angeles' avant-garde film scene, an influential professor at CalArts and an optical effects pioneer, Pat O’Neill is best known for his short works from the early 1960's onwards which are highly graphic, layered and reflexive assemblages based on a mastery of optical printing techniques. In O’Neill’s films boundaries fade, narrative collapses and layers of imagery draw the viewer simultaneously towards and away from linear meaning. O’Neill has combined found footage with experimental montage and compositing techniques to create a graphic language that deals with how different, often disparate elements assembled together in the frame relate to one another. His innovative optical techniques anticipated our digital landscape well before its time.

more:

• Pat O'Neill Foregrounds (1979)

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•  Andrew Norman Wilson                                                                                                                        Workers Leaving the GooglePlex (2011)  <Shield SSD>

•. Isaac Julien                                                                                                                                                       Paradise Omeros (2002) (8min extract)   (or full) <Shield SSD> 

• William Kentridge                                                                                                                                                 Refusal of Time (2012) (Metropolitan Museum) <Shield SSD> 

• Julian Rosefeldt  Manifesto (Armory Installation 2015) <Shield SSD> 

SOUND + CONCEPT

• Marianna Simnett The Needle and the Larynx (2016) <Shield SSD>

NYFF 62 2024     Currents  selections

• John Smith Being John Smith (2024).  <Shield SSD> 

• Miranda Pennell Man Number 4  (2024). <Shield SSD>   -1'37"

from: https://lowepost.com/casestudies/mad-max-fury-road-r9/

  Shooting for Post-Production / Post-Production as Corrective or Creative Technique

Color correction : Day for Night

        •   Mad Max Fury Road (2015) dir George Miller

              Mad Max Fury Road night sequence (drive)

            Video Essay on Day for Night in  Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (link)

Casey Feris -- Da Vinci Color Correction Tutorial <link>

Post Production 2024 November 27th 2024

 Sound Design

SOUND

4 types of audio in moving image works (but not completely distinct. There are overlaps.)

 Presence / specifics. 

Dialogue / Background + SFX / narration / music

1. Dialogue
2. Narration or voice-over
3. Sound Effects (SFX)
      specifics (things we see and hear -- often a combination of sounds, like a non-musical chord)
      backgrounds (atmosphere or "room tone" that we don't usually notice except when it drops out or changes)
4. Music  
      source (when we see the music produced, or it appears to be part of the action -- "diegetic")
      scoring (when the music is accompaniment to the scene)

The sense of presence: when what is on screen is both seen and heard in a seamless way. As viewer, one is "in the scene." Connected with the sense of timelessness or instantaneity.

Sound and presence – synch gives a sense of reality, and immediacy: the silent film, or the film which does not make a sound, is more easily relegated to the past.

Examples

Sharp Edge Blunt (2010)  Leighton Pierce .    https://vimeo.com/8728647 

Glass (1998) Leighton Pierce 

“The Conversation” (1974) dir Francis Ford Coppola 
Sound design: Walter Murch

4:44-7:30, 8:45 - 12:15.  13:55-15:45 18:00 - 19:30 - 22:00. 28:25 -

ASSIGNMENT ---

Download folder

either

Bed and Sofa section

or

Man with a Movie Camera section

Post Production 2024 November 20th 2024

 Assignment II: Interview

Copy your Edits here

Production Stills as Potential Cutaways here

Post Production November 13th 2024

 

Post Production October 30th 2024

Strong Recommendation 

Ainadamar 

Metropolitan Opera (only 3 dates -- below)

Rush tickets lottery <link>

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NEXT WEEK : November 6th 7:30 pm: 

Millennium Film Journal Screening at ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES

Arrive at 7 to get your comp

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November 13th Interview Production

Big Room

Each class members alternate roles:

Director / Interviewer

Camera

Sound / lighting

Interviewee

Assignment chart will be published in advance on this blog

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October 30th (this evening)

  class input for GW's article on

• Christian Marclay Subtitled (2019) SSD

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How to produce, manage and edit an interview

Embracing the Subject's Hostility

• Nathaniel Kahn My Architect  -- excerpt (2003)

Waiting for the Subject

• Verena Paravel + J.P. Sniadecki Foreign Parts (2010) SSD

Errol Morris -- Making Sentences

• Errol Morris Standard Operating Procedure  -- excerpt  (2008) SSD  

• Errol Morris  The Fog of War -- Robert MacNamara -- excerpt  (2003) SSD (did not show)

Playing with the Talking Head

• GW Manuel de Landa interview  SSD

• GW Johanna Gosse Ways of Seeing/Something  (did not show <link>)

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HOW TO SEE, REALLY SEE, CINEMA   

Read: Laura Marks The Fold (text excerpt)

• Mounira Al Solh Now Eat the Script (2014)  SSD

Post Production October 23rd 2024

 

The Gloria of Your Imagination

Jenn Reeves