' While the band played on ' - Adam Curtis
From BBC blogs
" I have always been fascinated by the way music can completely change the way you watch film - and how you feel as you watch the images.
For the last year or so I have been collecting all sorts of footage of people dancing that I found in the BBC archives. In all I gathered over two thousand shots culled from all kinds of programmes. I then cut some of them together to music by the wonderful 70s German band Neu. "
"I then took exactly the same sequence of images - I haven't altered even a frame - and put them to a montage of some very different music. "
When I watched the first, happier, more lighthearted audio I felt a sense of inspiration and intrigue of how those people lives must of been like, what they used to do for fun, etc. Whereas the power of changing the audio to something more sad, haunting and more sinister completely changes your state of mind. I began to feel sad for all the people, having thoughts that that they are probably not here anymore, and of how cruel the war was.
Therefore, this technique can be an incredible tool I could use within my exhibition. Within the confusing projection rooms showcasing the manipulative side of Hanoi Hannah, I will use darker, sinister and discomforting audio to make the audience members feel on edge, like how the soldiers did within the war.
When the audience then ventures into the power of femininity side of Hanoi Hannah room within the exhibition, I want them to experience a sense of calm and comfort. So I will use happier and lighter audio.
Therefore providing a direct link to the 'museum of CONFLICT'
The weblink won't open, but suggests that audio has had some benefit of psychological traumas of war soldiers. This is a loose link, but hearing Hanoi Hannahs voice during the war ( not shell shock that came after which the statement above is stating ) was calming to the soldiers and stablilitised there mental states slightly. Due to the comforting tones of a female, familiar voice
= Music is so powerful and can evoke a subtext we didn't even know existed.
Hanoi Hannah - playing popular US anti-war songs in an effort to incite feelings of nostalgia and homesickness, attempting to persuade US GIs that the US involvement in the Vietnam War was unjust and immoral.
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feel - good songs in America in the 1960s/70s
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distorting confusing element of exhibiton
calming, familiar Hanoi Hannah room
audio not first couple seconds
that's the youtube's opening audio
interesting route - it's happy, and it
talks about women the whole way through
" daydreaming boy " - like the soldiers
about Hanoi Hannah
feel-good and nostalgic, but too energetic,
needs to have a calming element
could be ominous and scary, or light
and cheerful - could be either
initial experimentation with audio and visual with elements I have created in my ongoing development work
The effect the audio has on the moving image pieces is very impactful, it brings such an eerie quality to moving images that would not neccesairly look and evoke scared feelings. This tie into well to the manipulation, as it can look from the outside very different to the internal negative effects its causing in the inside