Synaesthesia & Grain of Voice

Hi all and welcome to your new BLOG for year 13!
After all the frantic few lessons, presenting your music video analyses, we've just covered SYNAESTHESIA. You can check this on the web but it's also in your packs on pages 13 and 14.

We've focused on how music is made up of differing elements which stem from the various musical instruments and moved on to see how they're used to create a variety of 'shapes' (like Motifs) in the music. These can be used, once you've learnt to identify them, to trigger the creative process in MV storyboarding and planning in TWO main ways:
Each shape can be used to:

1. Trigger an edit point or series of editing points
2. Be used as a guide to how (in terms of direction) you could move the camera. This movement can be in a continual sweep, for example, or in a continual sweep with cuts within the continually progressing movement - so the movement works as one, but there may be scene changes or edits within that movement.

We have also talked about GRAIN OF VOICE which is from BARTHES and Goodwin referred to him when talking about how artists have a particular 'fingerprint' to their voice. Identifying this and believing in the uniqueness of your artist should help you to create a MV that identifies and exaggerates this - amplifying the STAR IMAGE.