By frag_editorial This work is deeply indebted to the Film Visualizations of Kevin L. Ferguson and the process he describes here (well worth a read). The first video below is an annotation where I’ve labelled each sound I can hear in this clip from The Double (2013). (I could be much more forensic with the labelling but I’m happy with this for now).
This video is interesting on its own, and the annotation deserves some more investigation, but for this experiment, it just is really a feeder for the next bit so below find a brief process video.
And the result of all this is…..
There is so much more to be done with this, and so many questions to consider. How would a whole film look? Where would I fit all the annotations? Will my computer cope? How else can I view this output?
(This fragment has since inspired the publication Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth.)
PS Thanks to Alan O’Leary for suggesting the name ‘Sound Stack’.
About the maker
Dr Cormac Donnelly is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. His research interests include Film Sound, Film Craft, and Videographic Criticism. He has published video essays in NECSUS, The Cine-Files, [in]Transition, and Screenworks and his work has been screened at festivals in Rome and Marienbad and at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. He is an associate editor at the journal [in]Transition.
Contact
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