Week 1: Video + Sound
- Jahnavi Shah
- Sep 11, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 14, 2020
Hello,
The Week 1 assignment includes creating a scene with sound only. I have tried to re-create a baby's first experience with music/sound and the effect it can have on his temperament. The audio shows how music and it's mother's voice humming calms a crying baby down. There are two variations I've uploaded. I have added my own audio to the second one as the female voice.
The Dangers of a Single Story really hit a chord with me. I am Indian and I have grown up watching films and reading books that demonstrated the West as this sort of aspirational place that is the center of the world. The best way I can describe it is feeling that my culture and my world exists on the periphery of another world where all the great stories take place in. Of course, with time we all grow to recognise that just because we haven't been represented enough, it does not mean that we are not a part of the narrative. The larger questions of identity and representation that Adichie brings are questions that will resonate with every person that doesn't fit into conventional represented roles. I had rarely viewed myself as a protagonist of a story and it took years of unconditioning to understand that it is an inferiority complex that isn't backed by credibility but is backed by bias. The danger of one narrative or one visual being pushed isn't always very obvious it's domino effect has created generations of resentment and frustration. A lot of us are fortunate enough to rise above it but a lot aren't. The current wave of revolution, representation, and conversation must continue for a future generation that inherits respect, pride and a clear identity from it's parents, not injustice and trauma.
Hey Gabriel, thanks a lot, I really enjoyed making this. I did personally try to make it sound filtered. I wanted it to sound distorted to a baby who is having their first experience with music and is still trying to make sense of it. Probably didn't do a seamless job cleaning it but will work on it!
Jahnavi, great work on this mix. I like that you tell the story from the baby's point of view and can hear that reflected in the way you mixed the sound. I wonder about the filtering of the music? Did you purposefully adjust the EQ to make it sound filtered and lacking in high end frequencies or is that how the track came? Keep up the good work!