Sound us so pertinent to our understanding of the world around us. Without the collective memory of sound that most people share, we could not translate the many voices, vibrations, and proximity of the events and people happening in them around us. Sound surrounds our 360 senses and elevates our experience, while also centering our direction of understanding through the manipulation of the very same sounds that we recognize/associate with certain sources. Are the sounds disjointed in the documentary video because they are telling of a story thats discombobulated? Or are the subjects in the video trying to extend the notion of being addled by whatever it is thats discontinuing the progression of their daily lives. Either way, the message that the sound interprets can be taken as an additive approach to the experiences on the documentary, or it can become a negative approach that strips away at the focal point of the siphoned unfolding.
The realities of a photograph can reach the audience watching if it makes a connection with the viewers presence in relation to the subject matter of the photograph. Since photographs are something of a hole in the time space continuum (because they are "neither now or later, here or there"), they're a recollection as well as a reminder of what was and what could yet come if the actions portrayed in the photographs are reminiscent of today's times and issues. It was explained in the article that if we allow ourselves to actually witness rather than just observe the subjects and their matters in the photograph, we can restore the accountability and status, which could have been denied in the moment of the photograph, but also could extenuate to other similar circumstances happening right now in the world.
The content and context of the project being showcased can be staged in it's own message. Sounds and rhythms are usually manipulated, regardless of their original form or source. Even interviews straight from a source can be altered in terms of rhythm, continuity, and volume. This can positively change the emotional output of the documented to increase awareness for it, as well as vary the emotional impact of the message to be unlimited from one stoic inheritance of sound. The bumps and grinds and twists of a soundtrack take us to that reality being shown in the documentary, but it also distinguishes our reality from the reality being physically captured on screen. In example of a 4D movie, it can heighten our senses of what it must feel like to be in that scenario captured on screen, rather than just watching it in 2D and relating to it via sight only. With a full body and sense immersement, I believe we become more empathetic to the lived experiences we see on screen, yet we can never truly replicate the way they've unfolded in real time, only interpret.
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