So from my previous posts you can see that I was lucky enough to secure a Professional Development Bursary which covered the costs of attending a short course in Premier Pro. After much searching I went on a course with Certitec in Covent Garden which was really good. Small class with a really nice instructor and a good deal of after support and it’s probably this aspect that represents where the value for money is. There were a few marketing people on the course, I was the only artist and the others consisted of small business owners hoping to skill up so that they could make their websites more exciting.
My previous blog entries give a little more detail about the course and the work that I did which I kind of felt was finished a while ago. Anyway, as promised here is the entry that concerns the sound work. I was pleased with the quality of the imagery but not being someone who usually works in moving image I think I settled a little too quickly with the work and after living with it for a few months I realised that it had much more potential. It had some sound but only that which was recorded at the time and I realised this wasn’t enough and that I could enable the work to have more impact if the sound was better quality, more structure and purposeful. The work is about people who live with terminal illness or long-term health conditions, I could go on at length here so I’ll spare you but do contact me if you’d like to hear more!
I had an idea to develop a soundtrack from the sounds of diagnostic imaging processes and thanks to some contacts I managed to get some of the medical sounds I needed. Having just started work in Premier I then needed to find someone to assist me with the sound work. Through a work colleague I was introduced to a young composer would had experience/interests in electronic sound so we met and have been developing the work together. It has a long way to go yet as we are trying multiple approaches that are quite electronic, some new tests that will be more choral whilst balancing the aims of the work in the first instance.
Over the holidays I am planning a number of recordings with people reading scripted text that will be the basis for the final composition which we are working on in January. I expect the work won’t be fully complete until Feb/March so I’ll be planning another entry to update a-n readers on how it all plays out. Thanks for reading.
Here’s a little 1 minute snippet if you’re interested:
https://vimeo.com/240289879
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