Monday, 22 October 2012

Pi


For my first project I've decided to add sound to a clip from Darren Aronofsky's 1998 film "Pi". I have yet to see this film, but I am a huge fan of Aronofsky's having seen Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler and Black Swan and I adored all three of them.

The reason I chose this scene out of the five available is that I saw it as the most interesting sonically. I can see masses of potential with this man alone in his weird room full of odd equipment fiddling with screws and computers. A major reason for me selecting this scene is that my boyfriend recently bought an expensive mechanical keyboard and it just makes the most amazing keyboard sound I have ever heard. There are shots of a man hitting keys on a keyboard over and over again and I think that I can get an excellent recording to go along with this.


I also think it will be fairly challenging. Deciding what atmos to use and adding chair squeaks and machinery fiddling sounds will not necessarily be easy, but I love the look of the scene and I'm thinking it'll be a lot of fun.

Diego Stocco



Diego Stocco is an Italian composer who has worked on TV, movies and video games (the three main areas that I am interested in working on).
I find him particularly interesting because he likes to create his own instruments and then use them in interesting ways.



Having a look at his work and how he goes about this stuff definitely applies to what I'm hoping to get out of doing sound at uni. I'm very interested in soundtracks as I love composing music, but also just seeing the different sounds he creates by re purposing instruments or even bins and trees is pretty inspiring.