10:00 - 11:00
Affective Audio and Musical Similarities
Dr. Stuart Cunningham
How emotion effects us? He talked about the idea of effective audio or effective technologies.
What we are really interested in are two kind of levels of emotional and effective response. Feeling vs. thinking. The best way to describe is if we think of different parts of the brain and neurology inside the brain you have got two parts responsible of dealing emotions. If were define the each one separately then what we would say is that the limbic system is kind pf responsible for feeling and the cortex is responsible for thinking. So we have got two bits of our brain help us predominantly process emotions and trying to rationalize emotions.
Effective technologies
Technologies that interact human emotions, technologies that recognize emotions.
When we engage with media we look for some kind of emotional stimulates from that media. And that could be a piece of art, piece of film, piece of music, it can be any type of media. But we look for emotional reflections. How do we get piece of technology to recognize emotion and actually responds some kind of way. There are two models.
One of the ways to understand emotion of the person when they discreet is by looking at someone;s physiology. There are biometric indicators of what emotional state someone is in. For example if somebody is stressed you can see they are sweating.
Students built a sensor belt which you wear and it's got number of different sensors inside. It starts tell about us the context that the person is in , what they're doing.
Computers or technologies that can actually express emotions.
Technologies that actually have emotions.
Visual Glitch Art
You have art work that contains those produced by digital process, you actually use the errors and the noise and strange things. We like things that aren't perfect. the memorable moments we have, we go and see a performance or a band or piece of theater and things go wrong and that's when we like it.
11:30 - 12:30
A Film Editor’s Story
Peter Hollywood
It's interesting to see what's been going on since 110 - 120 years, the film and moving photography started. It's a short time. Some films are still shot in 35mm. But nearly all films are edited digitally in nowadays. He edited The Adventures of Baron Munchausen in 1988. When he was editing it he had to sow the sound in to the film in sowing machine. What it meant was that every decision you made was carefully considered. He didn't just want to say that would do. But when you are editing digitally you can try things. The other thing is that's the only version of real life. Now we can duplicate a cut. With film we only had one real one. It was gradually being adjusted added to sound editor wold fix the sound put it back. In 1903 Edwin S. Porter invented editing and made a film called Life of an American Fireman.
How did his career begin?
He started as projectionist. He fell in love with movies working in locally Odeon. He left the school young to become a projectionist. He got used to handed in film. He eventually found a job in Soho and it was meeting directors. And he found himself in a film called In Love and War directed by Lord Richard Attenborough in 1968. He worked in cutting room when they finish off the editing. He learned about film as an assistance. There was a film label called Let it be back in early 70's. They made this film at the end of their career hoping they would come back together as a group. While they were filming they didn't use clapper board or any way to sync the materiel up. He was giving job as an assistance on this film and he turned up in cabin role and there was piled high with 16mm cans of sound and picture. He had to go through all the rushes to see if they matched to make it ready for editing. After he met with Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick had his cutting room next to his house. And his house was near Elstree Studios where they do the sound. He also had this weird obsessions, one day he had to go and get quarter inch of A Clockwork Orange sound roll, master sound roll. Peter Hollywood was working in the sound side of things. Kubrick kept all his master sounds under his bed. When he had disagreement of one of the company he had to move the original negative of the film to another company with convoy.
There was a directly editor who was cutting Blade Runner, they called him up to do some editing on it. After they took the film to America , they had two screenings and they were both disaster. The audience needed more explanation. They took it back to England. They did some re cutting to make it clearer and they wanted voice over. Ridley Scott cut out certain scenes. At the end of film they added some aerial shots of mountain scenery to make it slightly happy ending. They got that shot from Kubrick's The Shining. After Ridley Scott regretted and made a directors cut. Story telling is about to be manipulated by how do we make money out of it. He worked in three Superman films and Santa Claus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1R9HQqKRI
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