Louie Bourne Sound Arts Blog

  • Satire

    “In one 45-minute journey, the average London commuter is exposed to more than 130 adverts” , Advertising is so widespread and overwhelming that it affects almost everybody, we have become desensitised to it, allowing corporations to break down the unconscious parts of our minds. “Satire is a powerful art form which has the ability to…

  • Edward Bernays, Selling Emotions

    “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.” Edward Bernays was one of the first people to start up in public relations, public relations as defined by the oxford dictionary is “the business of giving the public information about a particular organization…

  • Music and Noise/Colour and Duration

    Above is a diagram displaying which sections of the film use music and noise, the longer sections have the most intense colours and are the sections with noise. The reason these scenes have been paired with noise rather than music is they are the most intense parts of the film, to pair that with noise…

  • Setting and Drawing From Reality

    Setting has reflected on “The Gurgle”, it is a reflection on how life within a city can make you feel, made by people who share these anxious, frantic feelings. My neighbour was a large inspiration to this film. He is a violent man who struggles with addiction and spends much of his time shouting on…

  • DIY Foley and Surreal Sound Effects

    I recorded the foley and sound effects for this in my childhood home rather than in a studio, I wanted a rough around the edges selection of sounds for the film. The DIY sound is captured through the lack of acoustic treatment and the fact you can make out breathing and handling of the microphone…

  • Duration

    During this process I have realised that short form film has limitations, I would prefer to work with long extended shots, to use boredom as a tool. It would excite me to work in a more spiritual style, with the focus being to make the audience contemplate. I would rather be working in beautiful rural…

  • Preparation

    There wasn’t a script for this project, I knew that I just wanted to go out and film and pick what felt right, I had a rough idea that I wanted a lot of walking. The time spent between one place and the next is often the times I feel the most anxious, thinking about…

  • The Surreal

    Fellini’s 8 ½ uses sound and music as a way to tell the story, the Saraghina sequence would fail to represent the sensual pleasures of youth without the vibrant music that accompanies Saraghina’s dancing, the music provides information for the audience to decipher. The music is setting the tone for what the narrative is showing,…

  • Dissonance

    “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man” The idea behind the film was about somebody who psychologically changes themself because they cannot cope with who they are, a literal dissonance in the characters brain, to include dissonance in the music felt right to me. I took…

  • The Film

    The film begins with a young man sitting in a warm darkness smoking, writing a birthday card, it is left ambiguous as to who the birthday card is being written to, half of the man’s face is in shadow and pensive music is played with a high pitched droning, though it is night you can…