Everytime I hear a song for the first time, I think about how it would work in a movie as a soundtrack. Most songs are very appropriate to put in movies, since they deliver so much emotion and that's the whole point with both medias.
I don't bother to close my eyes when I listen to music. To fully appreciate it I need pictures to go with it. Even if it's just trees passing by while riding on the bus (always a good option for soundtracks), the music is amplified in my ears when I can register things with my eyes.
I can imagine with my eyes open, I don't need to close them just to see other images than those that are really there. I imagine better with my eyes open, since I have an open door to inspiration as things pass me by. Inspiration is the real world. Inspiration is everything that happens.
I don't know if it's just because I'm a filmmaker to the bones, as I love the media, or if that's a common thing to do when you hear new music - but sound and picture are best combined.
The sound is never as sweet as when it is with the perfect concrete vision.
18 January 2008
Sound and image
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People make fun of me for the zone I get in commuting to class. I listen to music between classes and every line of the song becomes an animated painting in my head. I walk and think of how each still would be constructed, a painted motion picture. And what's even more interesting is that I remember the first time I hear and am obsessed with a song.
Case and point: Fefe Dobsons first CD. I was in the newly furnished living room eating strawberry yogurt after watching a dvd boxed-set of my favorite show, sometime during the Arizona summer. I feel the heat, I taste the yogurt, I hear the song. Every time.
Maybe I'm an oddball, but what I'm trying to say is that your post makes a ton of sense to me.
-Alison
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